Sentence examples for could have abstained from inspiring English sources

But that move would have been pointless, since the Americans could have abstained and gone to war anyway.

"God is my witness", he explained, "I could have abstained longer than the weal of my country could have permitted, [had not] my long delay bred in the breasts of many a great jealousy of my inability, as if I were a barren stock".

This time, the college guys have abstained in solidarity.

"Either you would have abstained entirely, or you would have gone all the way".

Conceptually, we have abstained from attempts at building a strong epistemology for the concept of 'domains'domains

At the very least, ComVentures should have abstained from voting on the acquisition.

If not, he might have abstained.

If he did, he should have abstained.

"I have been asked [about the virgin birth] many times," said Warren Booth, a leading expert in parthenogenesis at the University of Tulsa, "and honestly I can come up with no feasible explanation as to how a female that had abstained from intercourse could give birth to a child of either sex".

He told reporters today that France had helped broker the 1999 resolution and had abstained from the vote because the resolution could have been improved.

The patient had abstained from alcohol for several months before the PSG, and this raises the question if the result could be explained with a withdrawal state.