Sentence examples for abstain from it from inspiring English sources

The decision was made, (in common with other European countries), to focus on helping teenagers cope with sex and its consequences rather than trying to make them abstain from it.

Observant Muslims also abstain from it.

"But to abstain from it is to risk the consequences of voicelessness and inaction.

As George Washington wrote to the Quakers after he became president: "Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the persons and consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but, according to their stations, to prevent it in others".

Instead, I've decided to abstain from it all and hope that my acute Sleeping Beauty syndrome is cured one day by a Prince Charming who will ride up in a peanut-oil-powered vintage Land Cruiser and take me in his chiseled, vegan arms.

When you see a piece of deliciously decadent looking chocolate cake and are planning to abstain from it in the interests of your health, self-criticism is the voice that says, "Why am I always being so careful and depriving myself?! Don't I know how to have fun?" And then, if you decide to eat that same piece of cake, self-criticism is also the voice that says, "I don't have any will power.

The problem, though, is that some people can't seem to find the right balance between gorging themselves on debt when times are hot, as one financial expert explained it to Paul, and abstaining from it when the economy cools.

"In order to protect yourselves, we recommend taking security precautions when speaking out on Facebook or abstaining from it altogether".

Perhaps as long as we're abstaining from it during our encounter with the art, then engaging with it afterwards is excusable?

The primary risk of the gas is that I could hemorrhage out of my femoral artery where the catheter is placed but abstaining from it altogether is far more terrifying.

2 All human affairs are classified as fard (mandatory), mustahabb (encouraged), mubah (neutral), makruh (discouraged, not sinful but those abstaining from it will be blessed by God) or haram (prohibited).