Sentences with phrase «of abstention from»

From the legal perspective, some people define economic - based crime to be an act of abstention from pursuing an action that will result in harm to the economic policy or the economic security of the country, committed by a person eligible for taking the criminal responsibility; such an act is prohibited by law and for which the law has prescribed a penalty or precautionary measures.

Straus and Bacon, for example, in their study of over 15,000 college students, found that the incidence of abstention from alcohol on the part of the parents decreased in each category as they moved from lower to higher family income.

Not exact matches

Back in the United States, an abstention of direct investment in the flexible office industry from a global real estate leader such as Blackstone coincides with a lack of of confidence for the country's political and economic future.

Islam requires of non-Muslims only abstention from hostility to Muslims and from sedition or opposition to the Islamic way of life.

Even abstention from a choice, a policy of neutrality and drifting are decisions, but they do not ultimately dispense from the necessity and the torment to choose one from many possibilities.

Others of my generation who had also grown up in legalism regarding or abstention from alcohol perhaps, and so were exploring their emancipation with micro-brews and homemade wine over thick theology books and bible studies and hymn - sings.

People need to just live and let live, regardless of their religion (or abstention there from).

The ritual observance of dietary rules — fasting and abstinence from meat in Lent, and abstinence from meat and meat products every Friday, as well as the eucharistic fast from midnight before the reception of Communion — were as much defining marks of Catholicism before the council as abstention from pork is a defining characteristic of Judaism.

On the whole» the» human potential «groups are open compared to the religious groups, having few requirements for participation tbough abstention from drugs and alcohol and avoidance of aggressive behavior may be required of participants during the actual period of» training.»

He urged love for God, neighbors, and enemies, the forgiveness of injuries, humility, and abstention from the vices of the flesh.

He saw men who once drank beer to dull their desperation begin to abide by the Mormons» abstention from alcohol, tobacco and caffeine, and to take care of their families instead.

While you may take some kinds of fish in moderation, the risk is high enough that some doctors still suggest total abstention from sushi during pregnancy.

An abstention by Labour would have prevented the PM from reaching a majority of two - thirds of all MPs, forcing her into the awkward position of taking the second path to an early election envisaged by the Act — a parliamentary vote of no confidence in her government.

The following assumes, firstly, that no party has an overall majority (once Sinn Fein's abstention from the chamber is taken into account), and that in spite of the possibility that they could top the polls in the popular vote, that the Lib Dems will not win enough votes to have the most seats in the new Commons (they would need between 37 - 40 per cent to be sure of that happening).

and Estes» abstention from a 2015 vote to change the threshold of senators needed to consider a bill from two - thirds to a simple majority.

The lack of support from Mr. Cuomo's nominees, combined with abstentions by the commission's judicial nominees, doomed a proposal to substantially increase lawmakers» pay, currently fixed at $ 79,500 a year.

She spoke with host Gary Axelbank about her abstention in the vote on mayoral control, the concept of mayoral control, charter schools, how the system mgiht be run to maximum effiency, lessons learned from her tenure as president at Hostos CC, and numerous other topics.

Some were dragged from hospital beds and honeymoons in order to walk through the «No» lobby as a consequence of the Lib Dem abstention.

The authors found that, controlling for other factors, such as whether respondents liked or disliked Clinton and Trump, former Obama voters who believed one or more of the fake news articles were 3.9 times more likely to defect from the Democratic ticket in 2016, including abstention.

Gormley is considered by this work, and others, to have rescued the human figure - a central theme of sculpture since classical antiquity - from its long period of abstention during Abstract Expressionism's popularity.

(Note: He was actually nicknamed «le grand refuse», as a result of his systematic exclusion from the Paris Academy between the years of 1836 and 1841 and his own abstention between 1842 and 1849.)

In the English Department where I teach, at a mid-sized Midwestern university, we have just voted virtually unanimously (there are about 40 of us in the department — there was one abstention) for our university endowment to divest from fossil fuel interests.

According to the directive, the concept of religion should in particular include the holding of theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, the participation in, or abstention from, formal worship in private or in public, either alone or in community with others, other religious acts or expressions of view, or forms of personal or communal conduct based on or mandated by any religious belief (art. 10).

changing the voting rules at the last stage of the comitology procedure (the Appeal Committee), so that only votes in favour or against an act are taken into account; this will reduce the use of abstentions and the number of situations where the Committee is unable to take a position and the Commission is obliged to act without a clear mandate from the Member States;

Briefly, the doctrine of Younger abstention provides that a federal court may abstain under certain circumstances from decided a case or controversy when a state judicial proceeding is pending.

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.