Sentence examples for abstaining from work from inspiring English sources

I spoke to a number of healthcare and childcare workers who did not support the Women's Strike because they didn't feel included or necessarily comfortable with the idea of abstaining from work.

In 1987 Jews obtained special rights from the Italian state allowing them to abstain from work on the Sabbath and to observe Jewish holidays.

On a pair of tables in the corner of the room sit stacks of Occupy literature – magazines and newspapers produced by protesters – as well as stickers, posters and fliers: all propaganda for May Day, a nationwide day of action calling on the public to abstain from work, school, shopping, banking and household chores.

They were charged after 171 drivers, all of whom were recruited from China, abstained from work last week over pay.

Because I'm religious, I choose to abstain from work on the Sabbath and holidays.

And Rosh Chodesh - the celebration of the new Jewish month - and a holiday that reveres new beginnings and encourages women to abstain from work - don't even get me started on that one.

Experts emphasised the need for HZ patients, even with no pain, to abstain from work, as they would be infectious during the early phases of their HZ infection.

On October 26, 2011, a general assembly at Occupy Oakland voted unanimously to strike on November 2, 2011, directing anyone who supports the Occupy cause to abstain from working, going to school, or spending money.

Yet it also describes Him as abstaining from the work of the previous six days.Did He work on day 7 and only abstain then or did He stop the second that the seventh day began?

The only thing that worked, he said, was calling himself an addict and abstaining from sugar and white flour.

He appeals to the working class, which, contrary to some claims, has largely shunned Le Pen and which has been abstaining from the vote.