abstain from voting

In such cases, he said, the sponsor should abstain from voting.

The official said that a majority the council's 41 members were expected to support the American resolution or to abstain from voting.

Abstaining from voting or returning the $1.9 million to the company is.

Eight votes came against, and two more abstained from voting.

For the above reasons, we have chosen to abstain from voting.

In view of all this, I shall abstain from voting.

The way ahead is still unclear, and so we have abstained from voting.

I abstained from voting because the language arrangements are still not entirely clear.

For those reasons, I consider it my duty to abstain from voting.

If there is no clear majority the senators will abstain from voting.