Abstaining Sentence Examples

Swine are very rarely kept, and then almost wholly for the European inhabitants, the Copts generally abstaining from eating their meat.

They are mainly monogamous, and by rigidly abstaining from foreign marriages have preserved racial purity.

Abstaining from putting himself forward, he lived quietly on his estates, which had been restored to him by a vote of the Assembly.

A resolution was finally adopted by 128 votes to 1, thirty Socialist members abstaining from voting.

It was notable that Martha was pregnant and abstaining.

Their funeral mourning consists of abstaining from drink and eating raw beef, and they use a wooden log for a coffin.

Parnell had to conciliate the Clan-na-Gael and the Fenians generally, both in Ireland and America, while abstaining from action which would make his parliamentary position untenable.

The new chief secretary, while abstaining from displacing the undersecretary, whose encouragement of " devolution " had caused considerable commotion among Unionists, announced that he considered him as on the footing of an ordinary and subordinate civil servant, but Mr Wyndham had said that he was " invited by me rather as a colleague than as a mere undersecretary to register my will," and Lord Lansdowne that he " could scarcely expect to be bound by the narrow rules of routine which are applicable to an ordinary member of the civil service."

This is abstaining, according to its usual definition, and it was expressly stated, so it was an express abstention.

The same is said with regard to abstaining from stealing, sexual misconduct, lying and the taking of intoxicants.

The program focuses on taking each day at a time, abstaining from the first drink to promote complete sobriety.

He was defeated by a combination of the Kossuthists, Andrássy Liberals and Clerical People's party, the 30 Croatian deputies, whose vote might have turned the election, abstaining on Dr Wekerle promising them to deliver Croatia from the oppressive rule of the ban, Baron Rauch.

Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his own about the facts he was recounting.

But I am not now abstaining from doing so at the first moment when I asked the question.

Alcohol has a tendency to exasperate already tense situations, so abstaining is usually a good way to go.

While abstaining from sexual intercourse is ideal for teens, teaching sex education with this as the only goal can lead to disaster.

Less than 7 percent of these people are successful after one year of abstaining from smoking.

By encouraging healthy living habits and either abstaining from tobacco or quitting existing nicotine use, parents can teach their children how to stay away from nicotine products.

The abstinence ring movement began in 1996 by Denny and Amy Pattyn to promote abstaining from premarital sex.

Natural Family Planning -- Also known as fertility awareness or periodic abstinence, this method works by abstaining from intercourse on the days when a woman is ovulating.

Abstinence means just what the terms implies -- abstaining from intercourse altogether.

Abstinence means abstaining from sexual intercourse.

Instead of abstaining on the most fertile days, you would want to have intercourse instead.

A commitment to abstinence - These are referred to as purity promise rings in which the wearer commits his or herself to abstaining from sex until marriage.

Fasting is quite simply abstaining from solid foods for a while, giving your digestive system a chance to rest and toxins to be flushed out.

Those following the cleanse are to drink this lemonade while abstaining from all other food and drink for 10 days.

The Jonas Brothers are also known for their commitment to abstaining from drinking and drugs and for wearing purity rings.

Abstaining would make for a long night, so he carefully slid out from under her and crept downstairs.

Had he been abstaining so he could get an accurate test?

It seems that confusion and trouble will be best avoided by abstaining from the introduction of the non-evident somites, the ocular and the praegenital, into the numerical nomenclature of the component somites of the three great body regions.

He was defeated by a combination of the Kossuthists, Andrássy Liberals and Clerical People's party, the 30 Croatian deputies, whose vote might have turned the election, abstaining on Dr Wekerle promising them to deliver Croatia from the oppressive rule of the ban, Baron Rauch.

But while abstaining from irrelevant historical discussions, Hallam dealt with statesmen and policies with the calm and fearless impartiality of a judge.

This measure was opposed to many of the dearest beliefs and feelings of Palmer, and he evidenced his disapproval by abstaining from voting on the resolutions.

Here, too, should be mentioned St Francis's other great creation, the Tertiaries, or devout men and women living in the world, who while continuing their family life and their ordinary avocations, followed a certain rule of life, giving themselves up to more than ordinary prayer and the pursuit of good works, and abstaining from amusements of a worldly kind.

The term " holiness " in this connexion consists positively in the fulfilment of ceremonial obligations and negatively in abstaining from the defilement caused by heathen customs and superstitions, but it also includes obedience to the moral requirements of the religion of Yahweh.

An outburst of Jewish religious feeling is dated in the second year of Darius (520), but whether Judah was making a bold bid for independence or had received special favour for abstaining from the above revolts, external evidence alone can decide.

Such of the fathers as are engaged in the work of education are permitted to continue, on condition of abstaining from lax and questionable doctrines apt to cause strife and trouble.