Sentences with phrase «members abstained from»

It was believed that two of the five members abstained from this procedure.

Three of the committee's nine members abstained from voting or were absent.

Two members abstained from voting.

The DUP holds eight seats in the Westminster Parliament and Sinn Féin holds five, though its members abstain from sitting.

Not exact matches

Not only that, but around a third of voting shares abstained from the reelection of every member of the board's compensation committee.

For the torture law to be similar, it would have to require that the torture could only be carried out by volunteers who were willing to choose to enact the punishments, and members of the Department of Corrections could abstain from participating on principle.

Tietjen reproduces several verbatims from those interviews as well as a chart delineating the vote count — to commend, correct or abstain — for each faculty member.

Publicize the idea that «growth» — in recovery, in the spiritual life, and in individual lives — is not measured by how many meetings a member attends, how «single» in purpose a recovery group's mission is kept, or how long one has abstained from an addiction.

Total APA members eligible to vote: 17,905 Number of APA members that actually voted: 10,555 Number of members that Abstained 367 Number of No votes to keep h0m0 in the DSM as a mental disorder: 3,810 Number of Yes votes - votes to remove h0m0 from the DSM as a mental disorder: 5,854.

If I started a secular club, and offered all the attractions that are offered at any mega-church, only without the religious teaching and preaching, and I, as club leader, made sure the members knew that I expect them to pay at least 10 % of their income to the club, and I was getting very, very wealthy as a result, I bet the vast majority of Christians who abstain from thinking badly about Benny Hinn, Jerry Falwell, Joyce Meyer, etc, would have no problem at all criticizing me, just because I am not a servant of the Lord.

MILLIONS of parents whose faith placed them in the position of not just asking, but demanding under pain of grounding or even corporal punishment, that their grade school children abstain from what others are enjoying, have still raised well adjusted kids who've gone on to be productive, contributing members of society.

What they'd probably do is to vote for their party's presidential candidate, and become «faithless electors» when it came to the VP, either abstaining from that vote, or voting for a non-Texan (presumably, a different member of their own party) for that office.

Ms. Mark - Viverito, like many members of the Council's Progressive Caucus, abstained from her borough board's vote on the proposals.

As a member of the board of trustees since 2007, he has routinely abstained from voting on charter school matters.

The former is a freshman and the latter was a Klein loyalist and the lone member to abstain from voting «yes» during the Sampson confidence vote last month.

Sen. Dave Valesky issued the following statement to his hometown paper, the Syracuse Post-Standard, about why he was the lone member of the Democratic conference to abstain from voting to keep Sen. John Sampson on as leader for the next two years:

O'Halloran, who also headed the county GOP's legislative fundraising committee, said he stepped down from the county committee because he had been told that several members of the Legislature, including Chairwoman Terry Bernardo, said they would abstain from voting on the VLT issue to avoid any appearance of impropriety.

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

The Citizen went on to praise Valesky for being the only member of the conference to abstain from voting to retain Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson for another two years, regardless of whether the Democrats end up in the minority — an all - but certain fate, at this point.

Howard Zemsky, Chairman of the Richard Center Corporation board, who also is a member of the ECIDA board, abstained from the unanimous vote, but thanked his fellow board members for supporting the high - profile adaptive reuse project.

The number of MPs voting for him last year have risen from six to 10 (16 if you add non-voting members, peers and Harrriet Harman who abstained as acting Leader), those who voted for his brother are down from eleven to ten (plus non-voting Kendall).

«It is clear his behaviour last night in whipping up a rally of largely non-Labour members and his refusal to accept any blame for the referendum defeat turned off a number of colleagues from the left who were considering abstaining or voting for him,» said the politician, who also argued that there was deep anger about the perception that Corbyn had not tried hard enough to mobilise Labour voters during the referendum campaign.

Council members can abstain from voting.

OA strongly encourages its members to abstain from sugar or any food that cause cravings and binges.

Many members have found that when they abstain from sugar, flour and wheat, their real feelings surface.

How every member of Jodi's household resolved health issues (ADD symptoms, excess weight, asthma, and high blood pressure) by abstaining from food additives and chemicals

Among members of the Christian dating service that are 21 years of age and over, the majority (65 %) either abstain from alcohol consumption, or rarely partake.

Older and more seasoned players, however (along with PETA members), can safely abstain from this simple critter - caging diversion.

It is so confusing that even a member of the state committee tasked with developing it abstained from a vote because she didn't understand it.

Any member of the governing board who is nominated for the award shall abstain from voting on matters related to the award during their term of office.

The LLC can also retain earnings and abstain from paying dividends - when taxed as a corp - allowing LLC members to avoid the pass through tax effect.

The BVerfG stated its opinion throughout several decisions regarding fundamental questions between the European Union and its Member States (e.g. Solange I, Solange II, Maastricht, Lisbon), but always abstained from requesting a preliminary ruling.

«In keeping with biblical and TWU ideals, community members voluntarily abstain from the following actions:... sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman»

Nonetheless, even if Member States are under an obligation to abstain from taking measures in order to enhance a multilateral agreement to which the EU may become part, this would entail some very problematic legal issues.

Regrettably, while the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is a member of ICDPPC, it also abstained from endorsing the resolution so U.S. federal government leadership on this issue may be somewhat lagging.

There is also a public interest in knowing the approach of the court to legal challenges to Council decisions, on which individual members of council committees have decided to vote or to abstain from voting, as the case may be.»

Witnesses are entitled to abstain from testifying (before both Consob and the public prosecutor) only in the limited cases in which such an abstention is allowed under the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure, including if the witnesses are close family members of the person under investigation, are requested to testify on matters covered by professional, confessional or office privilege (including privilege granted to lawyers, journalists, doctors and ministers), or are requested to testify on matters covered by public office privilege or state secrecy privilege.

To qualify, members must adhere to certain values, including abstaining from alcohol and drugs and sticking to a «healthy lifestyle.»

Members of the European Parliament have voted to abstain from developing new regulative measures for blockchain systems, aiming to prompt innovation.