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It is not yet known how many of those were abstaining, as some MPs may have been absent for another reason.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2024

Later cables showed these reports to have been fiction, and indicated that Feng and Chang, out of deference to the Powers, were abstaining from immediate warlike engagements in the vicinity of Peking.

From Time Magazine Archive