Sentence examples for abstaining from doing so from inspiring English sources

Most experts, even in Israel, view Iran as striving to become a "threshold country", technically able to produce a nuclear weapon but abstaining from doing so for now.

The writ is not ordinarily granted when an alternative remedy is available, and it is never granted when the official to whom it would be directed has the legal discretion either to perform the act demanded or to abstain from doing so.

We abstained from doing so only for tractability reasons.

Closed-shop arrangements, for example, are not allowed and the constitution grants all individuals the right to set up trade unions, or to abstain from doing so, and declares all steps to obstruct this right as illegal.

Since 2009 men who have sex with other men have had to abstain from doing so for five years before being legally permitted to give blood regardless of whether or not they use condoms.

In a statement, signed by its executive director Marcy Darnovsky, the center calls on the company to "abstain from developing or offering any product or service based on this patent, and to use its patent to prevent others from doing so".

The Center for Genetics and Society, a bioethics think tank based in Berkeley, has called on 23andMe "to abstain from developing or offering any product or service based on this patent, and to use its patent to prevent others from doing so".

Other stars, including Mariah Carey, have abstained from doing the deed until their wedding night.

Respondents were also asked whether they have had reasons for doing so but abstained, and if so their reasons for not complaining.

Many people who fully abstain from alcohol do so because of medical conditions.

If you are willing or able to abstain from sexual activity, do so.