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  • European Union, the Treaty of Amsterdam introduced the concept of "constructive abstention", where a member can abstain in a vote where unanimity is required...
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  • The constructive vote of no confidence (German: konstruktives Misstrauensvotum, Spanish: moción de censura constructiva) is a variation on the motion of...
    38 KB (5,158 words) - 05:17, 16 May 2024
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    participate to full extend in the Petersberg tasks. Although having a constructive abstention introduced through the Treaty of Amsterdam, Austria was not obliged...
    27 KB (3,572 words) - 18:10, 16 March 2024
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    and the state comptroller from office, dissolve the government in a constructive vote of no confidence, and to dissolve itself and call new elections...
    62 KB (2,810 words) - 22:50, 23 June 2024
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    passed by the European Parliament with 450 votes for, 115 against, and 55 abstentions and the Council of the EU with 24 countries in favour. It entered into...
    23 KB (2,200 words) - 12:57, 19 June 2024
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    Assembly on their first session. He was elected in a 158-1 vote with 72 abstentions. In his first address to Parliament as Chairman Minchev thanked the MPs...
    6 KB (555 words) - 08:22, 19 June 2024
  • parallel litigation going on in state courts, following the Colorado River abstention doctrine. In that case, the federal government sued for adjudication of...
    2 KB (240 words) - 09:45, 5 September 2018
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    elected La République En Marche group president with 306 votes and two abstentions. On 27 June, the group voted to designate François de Rugy its candidate...
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    From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he followed the policy of abstentionism as a Member of Parliament (MP) of the British Parliament for the Belfast...
    81 KB (7,561 words) - 21:56, 10 June 2024
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    Retrieved 13 January 2023. "Opposition on India's Russia resolution abstention: 'Same side as China'". Hindustan Times. 26 February 2022. Archived from...
    179 KB (14,354 words) - 16:12, 24 June 2024
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    was no longer very interested in the Palestinian issue. Until the U.S. abstention led to the passage of UNSCR 2334, Obama had been unique among American...
    57 KB (6,330 words) - 15:05, 28 May 2024
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    who were frustrated with the nationalist policy of non-recognition and abstention. (O'Neill wrote of "a new Catholic intelligentsia", the product, he imagined...
    180 KB (20,162 words) - 12:32, 9 June 2024
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    UN Security Council passed Resolution 1973, with a 10–0 vote and five abstentions including Russia, China, India, Brazil and Germany. The resolution sanctioned...
    217 KB (19,404 words) - 11:01, 24 June 2024
  • parliamentary vote, must have at least a total of 175 votes in favour or abstention. If a Speaker fails four times to have a nominee elected, an election...
    61 KB (7,400 words) - 01:00, 6 June 2024
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    full U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination with a vote of 84–15 (with one abstention, Marco Rubio, R-FL) on January 25. With her oath of office administered...
    207 KB (17,571 words) - 12:28, 21 June 2024
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    investiture vote and voting against Rajoy, yet as Rajoy only needed an abstention from 11 PSOE MPs out of 84, he easily won the vote to be invested as prime...
    95 KB (7,637 words) - 08:48, 22 June 2024
  • invested with 40 affirmative votes, 20 negative votes and 40 abstentions. The abstention of parties that, for various reasons, do not wish to enter the...
    65 KB (7,608 words) - 05:16, 8 June 2024
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    August the Israeli Cabinet voted 24–0 in favor of the resolution, with one abstention. The ceasefire began on Monday, 14 August 2006 at 8 AM local time, after...
    48 KB (4,947 words) - 16:51, 19 June 2024
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    unnecessary to achieve an outcome and it may refer to a general philosophy of abstention from violence. It may be based on moral, religious or spiritual principles...
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  • writers — alleging that, as the interest rate falls in consequence of abstention from present consumption in favor of future, technology must become in...
    60 KB (8,297 words) - 12:35, 30 April 2024
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