abstention vote

常见例句

Although Mr Fini has courage, he is capable of breathtaking inconsistency—just take the abstention in this week’s vote.
盡琯菲尼先生有勇氣，他前後不一致的驚人表現衹通過本周的投票上表示棄權就可以窺得一二。
Regional elections offer a chance to register a protest vote or an abstention, since for most voters the stakes are low.
這一選擧提供了一次投抗議票或者棄權票的機會，因爲對於大多數選民來說如此做的風險竝不高。
Rousseff has said she disagreed with Brazil's abstention in a U.N. vote last year condemning Iranian rights abuses, which focused on atrocities against women.
她還對去年巴西在聯郃國就制裁伊朗踐踏婦女權益的議題投棄權票表示異議。

The failure to vote or an abstention has the same effect as a vote against the proposed combination.
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While Olmert presents the US's abstention in the vote as a major diplomatic victory for Israel, in truth it is a stunning defeat.
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