Sentence examples for abstained from accepting from inspiring English sources

Other governments abstained from accepting total responsibility.

Seven abstained but accepted the result.

Some require documentation that patients have abstained from alcohol and drugs for six months to a year prior to treatment.

One participant explained that she did not want to risk reducing the effectiveness of her medications, and therefore had abstained from alcohol following her enrollment in care: "I have not taken alcohol because I started taking ARVs.

In the Dáil there was no serious opposition, since the party headed by Eamon de Valera, which refused to take the oath prescribed in the treaty, abstained from attendance.

(Donovan, too, largely abstained from alcohol; that was not where the reputation for wildness came from).

They observed chastity for several days and abstained from certain foods.

The ancient Israelites, for example, abstained from sexual intercourse before going into battle.

Camus was a moralist who unhesitatingly distinguished good from evil but abstained from condemning human frailty.

Many of Yanukovych's allies were absent or abstained from voting.

But the Chinese abstained from a subsequent resolution that essentially approved military support for the Libyan rebels.