Sentence examples for and abstention from from inspiring English sources

The book gets its strength, he said, from its intimacy and abstention from polemics.

The wearing of old or colourless dress, either black or white, the shaving of the hair or letting it grow long and unkempt, and abstention from amusements have all been common practice.

Id al-Fitr, which marks the end of a period of daytime fasting, prayers and abstention from vices during the holy month of Ramadan, is the much-anticipated reward for the pious.

Some are sponsored by religious institutions, some are independent, but more than half are affiliated with Oxford House Inc., a national organization that promotes recovery through mutual support among residents of sober houses and abstention from the temptations that got them in trouble in the first place, hence the preference for single family houses outside of urban areas.

Often caricatured as kumbaya hippies, Sufis seek divine love and connection, but their practices encompass strict worldly rules and commitments: long services, dawn and night prayers, rigorous meditation and frequent fasting — in addition to the common Islamic practices of five daily prayers, the hajj pilgrimage and abstention from alcohol.

Present-day Austrians are distinguished by their interest in earlier Austrian works and abstention from standard empirical methodology including econometrics.

Diplomats said the resolution — which passed with 10 votes, including the United States, and abstentions from Russia, China, Germany, Brazil and India — was written in sweeping terms to allow for a wide range of actions, including strikes on air-defense systems and missile attacks from ships.

If the punishments require approval by the U.N. Security Council, the United States would need an unlikely combination of approvals and abstentions from council members.

Using the combined raw data of correct answers, wrong answers and abstentions from a sample of the top 15 TFA exams showing large gender differences, it was calculated that there is a 3% difference in abstaining between males and females (females abstaining more than males, p <.002) and a corresponding 3% difference in correct answers between males and females (males greater than females, p <.008).

Both have codes of modesty and urge abstention from smoking and drinking.

"Such feeling must be nourished by the Court's complete detachment, in fact and in appearance, from political entanglements and by abstention from injecting itself into the clash of political forces in political settlements".