Sentence examples for from abstention from inspiring English sources

But the fact that the PdL suffered from abstention in the traditionally macho south implies that much of the discontent was caused by recession.

Some countries, especially in Europe, switched from abstention to support out of a feeling that Abbas needed to be bolstered after eight days of conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians earlier this month.

Asexuality is distinct from abstention from sexual activity and from celibacy, which are behavioral and generally motivated by factors such as an individual's personal or religious beliefs.

This study focuses on the earliest transition in the youngest population, specifically, from abstention into sipping or tasting alcohol among children.

Four votes needed to be changed from abstentions into votes against the Chinese motion for a substantive discussion of the United State resolution to move ahead.

A fourth case study that is as plausible as the ones sketched above but was not found in our interview data would center on the mobilization of transnational political engagement against the backdrop of no political engagement prior to emigration, for example voting in homeland elections from abroad after abstention from voting 'at home'.

Evidence about the effects of low levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy has been inconclusive, and national guidelines vary from advising abstention to consuming no more than 32 g per week, the equivalent of 1 2 UK units, once or twice a week (in the UK).

We excluded the GLF 1978, 1980 and 1982 from the abstention (and the consumption) analyses because ethnicity was not recorded.

The case for omitting former drinkers from an abstention category is supported by their higher hazards compared with never drinkers.

Individual voices in various lands decried the evils of war, but the first genuinely pacifist movement known came from Buddhism, whose founder (the Buddha) demanded from his followers absolute abstention from any act of violence against their fellow creatures.

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