Word: abstaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eventually the stomaching was accomplished. The De Valerists, threatened by President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State with the dissolution of the Dáil if they attempted strong-arm politics, continued to "abstain" and the measure eventually passed...
Replied another: "Up to last week the Socialists have threatened to abstain from voting on the Pacts in the Reichstag, with the intention of calling the anti-Pact Nationalists' bluff that they would abstain from voting. The purpose of each group has been to make the other seem responsible for whatever the Reichstag does. Now the Socialists have taken the plunge. They intend to assume the responsibility and reap the rewards of making possible a coalition capable of ratifying the Pacts. Chancellor Luther has allegedly promised them that the present Cabinet will resign if and when the Pacts...
...supported by Conservatives. He was also supported by Liberals - for it is the strategy of Liberals not to seek the office of Moderator for one of 'themselves, but to have the office filled by a man who will maintain the unity of the Church and who will abstain from heresy-hunting, except as provided under the Church laws. But there was another candidate last year, Dr. Macartney of Philadelphia. He was not a mild, sweet-tempered, retiring, well-beloved professor. He was a vigorous younger preacher, ready to become a Lion of the Lord. His platform...
...Angell's deans, secretaries and proctors seem to have joined the new fanatics, telling us to abstain from thought and wine...
...Angell's deans, secretaries and proctors seem to have joined the new fanatics, telling us to abstain from thought and wine. Those who make a living out of the new ethics have to say such things; but the officers of a richly endowed university do not need to earn their salaries by intoning the foolish credos of the newly established State religion of the United States. They should be of the school of Socrates, who "heartily enjoyed social pleasure and deemed it unworthy of a man capable of self-control to abstain from innocent gratification through fear of falling into...