Sentence examples similar to abstain from ordering from inspiring English sources

Should philosophers act politically (and if so, should they engage in ordinary politics in existing regimes, or work to establish new ones), or should they abstain from politics in order to live a life of pure contemplation?

I knew how long he should abstain from ejaculation in order for me to get the brightest and the best sperm to partner with my desperately aging egg.

Many women continue to consume alcohol in pregnancy despite recommendations that they should abstain from alcohol in order to minimise potential risks to the fetus.

Tory MPs were ordered to abstain from voting.

Couch was given a ten year probation and ordered to abstain from alcohol consumption.

Tory MPs were given a three-line whip to abstain from the vote, in order to nullify it.

In their social lives, they tried to abstain from interpersonal relations in order to rest.

The triumvirate, ostensibly from concern over his health, ordered him to abstain from involvement in government affairs.

During that stay, the spokesman, George Arzt, said, doctors removed 16 pounds of water from his body and ordered him to abstain from eating salt.

Fifteen male subjects were instructed to monitor for incongruence between their own and the observed actions in order to abstain from their own action whenever the computer took over control.

In order to abstain from these restrictions, the current work combines the ABC formulation with a geometrically exact Kirchhoff Love beam element formulation that is capable of treating even the most general cases of slender beam problems in terms of initial geometry and external loads.