Sentence examples for abstaining for from inspiring English sources

As Corinne Usher said, it's important that a couple are abstaining for the same reasons.

High-functioning alcoholics also may not be physically addicted to alcohol, abstaining for days or weeks without suffering withdrawal symptoms.

Still, she said, "If people feel safer not drinking it, there are no long-term health effects from abstaining for two weeks, either".

To start with, abstaining for one month can lead to a long-term drop in alcohol consumption, according to a new study by Sussex University.

After reviewing small studies showing that exercise has little impact on rates of C-sections, fetal growth or labor length, she concludes that exercise is "fine" for pregnant women but so is abstaining for nine months.

However in devoutly Catholic Central and South American nations where birth control is hard to acquire and abortion is illegal or extremely restricted, women are concerned about how they can realistically protect themselves and their unborn children without abstaining for sex for years.

Nearly two thirds of the sexually active respondents abstained for three months, slightly less than half abstained for six months and 18% abstained for twelve months.

The former head of the Alcoholic Beverage Control agency even abstains for a day or so after Taylor comes by.

I've known females who've abstained for months, years, but abstention can lead to doing really freaky things.

One in 2005 found that smokers who were told to abstain for a day had rapid reductions in the urge to smoke when they took "self-paced, low-intensity" walks lasting about 15 minutes.

Sex in space is thought to have to become a certainty, as it is unlikely the couple on the Mars mission will want to abstain for the entire 16-month trip.