Word: abstentionism
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2) the "puritanical fundamentalist," who emphasizes morality and abstention from drinking, smoking, gambling and swearing;
The last-ditch French plan for ethnic partition had always been more of a threat than a realistic alternative. Under it, the big coastal cities were expected to remain as European enclaves, safely French in sentiment. But the heavy abstention rate among city Moslems indicated a weight of pro-F...
A roll call vote showed 13 in favor, six against, and one abstention.
Biggest disappointment of the election from the Gaullist point of view was the fact that only 55% of the electorate voted. One faction among the French settlers, smarting from what a De Gaulle adviser calls a post-insurrection "realization that they are no longer masters of their fate," boycotted the...
ABSTENTION. The only sure method.