My Government has refrained from any form of witch hunting or revenge against members of the former regime.

The following parties refrained from participating in the elections

But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.

But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

For this reason, New Zealand abstained in the vote on the draft resolution.

I refused all the newly constructed studios and to this old studio...

For that reason, the United States abstained in the vote.

This is the reason for Japan's abstention in the vote on this draft resolution.

Given these considerations, Canada abstained on the draft resolution.

Australia has abstained on this draft resolution, because the idea of a convention banning the use of nuclear weapons under any circumstances continues to pose difficulties.

In the final vote, many Member States abstained.

For those reasons, Brazil abstained in the voting on the resolution on the referral.

However, the Commission declined to make any alterations in the text of paragraph (1).

The FPC declines to intervene, citing lack of law enforcement powers.

However, on the eve of the same final the English Football Association decided to abstain from the vote for the presidency of FIFA.

India abstained on resolution 47 1 of 22 September 1992.

It will be recalled that Jamaica abstained in the vote on resolution 47 1 at the time of its adoption.

Mr. Gervais (Côte d Ivoire) (interpretation from French) Côte d Ivoire has abstained once again in the vote on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

However, the task of the Governing Council was to consider environmental problems. Poland had therefore abstained in the vote.

As in previous years, the United Kingdom abstained in the vote on the adoption of the draft resolution on the law of the sea.

Proportionate economic sanctions were imposed on the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya when it failed to comply with the Security Council resolutions.

Nevertheless, China has refrained from attacking him, making clear that it wants him to return eventually.

Italy had abstained during the vote because efforts had been made to improve the text by means of factual, realistic language.

Ms. CHEN Wangxia (China) said that her country had abstained because capital punishment was a complex legal question.

In previous years Jamaica abstained on resolutions under this agenda item.

But when they asked me to give a talk in Tallinn, Estonia, under the title How to find the right people, I balked.

Not if you ask India's Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, who was reluctant to categorize the Masonga Kitanda Olivier's killing as racist.

5. The Republic of Belarus is proud to have been the first State in the world to reject voluntarily the opportunity to possess nuclear arms.

Mr. Vasiliev (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian) Russia abstained in the voting on draft resolution A C.1 60 L.56.

Accordingly, Israel abstained on resolutions 48 40 A and D, and voted against resolutions 48 40 E to J.

25 In the case of Argentina, the Government firmly decided that there would be no further exchange offer on bonds not tendered.

As has been our practice in the past, the United States abstained in the voting on draft resolution A 48 L.34, concerning Jerusalem.

In the Maritime Areas Act, Belize forbore from extending its territorial seas out from three miles to 12 miles in the specific area of intersection.

Accordingly, Israel abstained on resolutions 48 40 A and D, and voted against resolutions 48 40 E to J.

Withholdings by certain Member States from payments for the financing of UNIFIL are estimated to be 121.5 million.

The Government of Chile has not adopted any legislation or administrative provisions such as those referred to in the preamble to General Assembly resolution 47 19. CHINA

Accordingly, Israel abstained on resolutions 48 40 A and D, and voted against resolutions 48 40 E to J.

And, even if the court refrains from setting limits, the underlying problem growing German aversion to all things European will not go away.

And it is not without plausibility Iran did not, after all, respond in kind when it was bombarded with chemical weapons by Iraq.

But this can work only as long as the US does not follow suit and continues to serve as consumer of last resort.

His delegation also called on others, especially delegations which had previously abstained from voting on similar draft resolutions, to support Uzbekistan.

India abstained in the voting on draft resolution A C.1 60 L.6, entitled The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East , as a whole, and voted against its sixth preambular paragraph because we believe it necessary to limit the focus of the draft resolution to the region that it is intended to address.

Nieto (Argentina) (interpretation from Spanish) Argentina has once again abstained in the vote on the resolution just adopted because we believe that this text presents a problem of a bilateral nature between two States with which we have deep relations of friendship.