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abstain from voting POL

induce to abstain from VB

abstain from food and drink

abstain from what is forbidden or indecent VB

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Vegetarians who were more interested in the moral aspects of diet, rather than in human health, began to discuss abstaining from animal use entirely.
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While the bathing system may not have been pristine, abstaining from cleanliness altogether brought upon many more potentially fatal diseases, especially in infants.
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Instead of dating, they practice chaperoned courtship, which encompasses the couple abstaining from any physical contact.
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Peter required priests to report traitorous confessions, but he did not push his ability to control to the limit, for example abstaining from secularizing church lands.
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The purpose of fasting (abstaining from meat and dairy) is to cleanse the body in accordance to serving in the presence of the Ark of the Covenant.
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This course of action involves leading a life of moral uprightness abstaining from unwholesome behaviours and engaging in wholesome ones.
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The word is also used in humorous sense to mean abstaining from work.
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Programs that encourage a social commitment to abstaining from drugs show lower rates of drug use.
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By summer 2011, she had fallen into a pattern of abstaining from alcohol for a few weeks, and then relapsing.
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