In total 81 Tories are known to have defied the whips, while others abstained.
Some of the world's largest arms traffickers either voted against the agreement or abstained.
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Since the two parties could not agree, the state's Bundesrat members would normally have abstained.
Cardiologist Marvin Konstam of Tufts Medical Center, the potential deciding vote on the panel, abstained.
Nine voted against and 41 abstained, including the UK. Fireworks erupted in Ramallah with the news.
Of Syria's neighbors, Lebanon abstained, and Iraq, Jordan and Turkey voted for the resolution.
Wealthy property sellers generally abstained from price cuts and waited patiently for interest to materialize.
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Five voted against (one DUP, three UUP and 1 UKIP), SDLP councillor Frank Feely abstained.
The declaration was passed unopposed, but the entire Soviet block abstained, along with Saudi Arabia.
Then, just hours before the vote's scheduled start on Nov. 20, Kato blinked, and merely abstained.
He laughs and says he voted for George W. Bush in 2000, but had abstained in 2004.
But that strategy failed - France voted for the Palestinians, and both Germany and the UK abstained.
The measure was passed by a slim majority after the Liberal Democrats abstained and Labour voted against it.
In a further sign of disgruntlement, nearly 19% of the 44 million registered voters abstained from voting Sunday.
In another conciliatory gesture, China abstained from voting on the United Nations motion authorizing peacekeeping forces in Kosovo.
Two opposition parties - the Social Democrats and the Greens - abstained, while the Left Party voted against.
The Supreme Court split 4:4 on the issue of whether the states even had standing to sue (Sotomayor abstained).
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Even Miss Bhutto's party, although its members stayed put, abstained from the vote.
But he abstained on the resolution authorising force in Libya (having originally wanted to vote no, it is said).
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Chile, whose ruling coalition suffered a bitter split over Venezuela's candidacy, and which abstained, talked of a compromise candidate.
Twenty seven councillors voted against the motion and 18 abstained from the vote.
And the vote for Bextra was close: Seventeen panelists voted for the drug, two abstained and 13 voted against it.
Many working-class voters who backed Mr Sarkozy for the presidency last year abstained or plumped for the left this time.
The coalition won all VAT-related votes but key Lib Dem backbenchers abstained in some of them or did not vote.
Hours later, he passed the key budget measure with 308 votes, seven short of a majority, as 321 lawmakers abstained.
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But in the 2006 General Assembly's Third Committee, which deals with human rights, South Africa abstained on a resolution criticising Myanmar.
Mr Curtis received 32 votes after Liberal Democrat and Labour councillors abstained.
C. elector Barbara Lett-Simmons abstained from casting her electoral vote as a protest against the District's lack of voting representation in Congress.
Two of Syria's immediate neighbours, Iraq and Lebanon, abstained from the vote.
At the UN, they had stood with China and Russia and abstained.
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