Word: abstainer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vexed, the General's political opponents branded him in covert conversations as a model hypocrite. Said M. Tsaldaris. opposition leader, spitefully. "We will abstain from the forthcoming parliamentary election unless General Kondylis resigns...
...preliminary disarmament conference scheduled for Geneva, May 18, will accomplish only negligible results. It would be better for the U. S. to abstain now and offer to mediate between the European nations later, when their economic distress will make it necessary for them to disarm. They do not intend to disarm...
...faithfully adhering to the truth of the Gospel and conforming their lives thereto than by joining in the celebration of a mighty festival marked by 'magnificent processions' and outward 'ceremonies'?" By unanimous vote the Council decided to appeal to all other Protestant bodies to abstain from taking part in the new Feast...
...Significance. Observers noted with interest that Mr. de Valera was defeated while opposing the extreme die-hards of his party. He was advocating that "when the Oath of Fealty to the King [required of all Irish M. P.'s] shall be abolished, then Sinn Feiners should cease to abstain from the Dail [Parliament], enter it and work toward the establishment of a Republic...
When the Locarno Pacts actually came up before the Reichstag, the Socialists momentarily ceased to abstain and helped Chancellor Luther to railroad the Pacts through. Their "price" for this aid was announced to have been Chancellor Luther's scrupulously fulfilled promise to resign, so that someone else might form a "Big Coalition" in which the Socialists would take part. Since no German statesman has been able to do this during the past six weeks, Dr. Luther is apparently to carry on and make the best of everybody...