The phrase "abstain from taking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of refraining from engaging in a specific action or behavior.
Example: "In order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, it is important to abstain from taking excessive risks with your health."
Alternatives: "refrain from taking" or "avoid taking".
For a higher price, the pirate states would agree to abstain from taking ships or hostages in the first place.
Shortly after his consecration as bishop in 1990, he issued a pastoral letter advising Catholic abortion rights advocates to abstain from taking communion.
The Italian newspaper La Republica reported that the letter said that Catholics who are "living in grave sin" or who "reject the doctrine of the church" should abstain from taking the Eucharist.
That is why I am convinced that it is important today, even more than before, to abstain from taking the initiative, or adopting any attitude which could be interpreted here as a weakening of the Allied determination to oppose force by force.
Some conservative Catholic observers said they hoped that more Catholic politicians would follow the lead of Gov. James E. McGreevey of New Jersey, who announced this spring that he would abstain from taking communion after New Jersey bishops chastised him for both his pro-abortion rights stance and for remarrying before receiving a church annulment of his first marriage.
Heroin users appear to run a higher risk of dying if they abstain from taking the drug for a few months then resume shooting up.
Vladimir Putin, Russia's strongman prime minister, has publicly abstained from taking sides.
But he carefully abstained from taking sides in the current legal debate.
He abstained from taking a firm stance on gun regulation, even though he believed that the laws should be tightened.
The action was the second time Gildernew, who along with her Sinn Féin colleagues abstains from taking her seat at Westminster, had faced a legal challenge over an election win.
Many market reformers and nationalists of the 335-member body said they had abstained from taking part in "the lurch back to the Communist system," as Serhiy A. Kirichenko of the Reform faction put it.
