Word: abstaining
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Over the centuries, the Church tried to split the difference, prohibiting marriage after ordination and encouraging married priests to abstain from sex with their wives after they had joined the priesthood. (The Eastern Orthodox CHurch continues to allow married men to be ordained as priests.) But it wasn't until the Second Lateran Council in 1139 that a firm church law allowing ordination only of unmarried men was adopted. Journalist and former priest James Carroll contends in Practicing Catholic that the reasons for this celibacy requirement were not purely theological. "Celibacy had been imposed on priests mainly for the most...
...jurisdiction over it is unwilling or unable to investigate or prosecute. Yet on March 31, 2005, when the United Nations Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in Resolution 1593, the U.S. was left in the embarrassing position of having to abstain from a resolution calling for an investigation into a situation it had deemed a genocide. Since then, the U.S. government has pledged to support the ICC proceedings on Darfur...
...government banned the station in 2003 for airing an interview with an armed rebel group spokesman. The station was allowed to return to its regular programming only after other stations vowed to abstain from reporting on government news until the regime lifted...
...previously belonged to a coalition with the ruling Basque Nationalist Party, announced that it would run on its own. Having already received the support of a former secretary of the Batasuna-linked trade union LAB, ETA could well draw votes from radicals that might otherwise have been disposed to abstain at ETA's urging. (See pictures of the recent U.S. election...
...member of this community. You should also note that resident deans do not vote on cases that involve the students from their house or yard. They also do not vote in cases involving students with whom they have an advising relationship. Additionally, all members of the Board can abstain, and sometimes do, when they feel that their relationship and/or prior knowledge makes it impossible for them to render a vote without bias...