Sentence examples for had been abstaining from inspiring English sources

I used to get a certain amount of undeserved applause at book festivals by being introduced as a writer "who has never been embedded", as if I had been abstaining from unnatural vice.

I had been abstaining from food during the day as well, in part to see how the Saudis did it, and also because there was none for sale until nightfall.

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

We're all loving this shit, even the camera dudes love it who have been abstaining from smoking the pretty much the whole time.

I am one month late but my husband and I have been very careful regarding this issue and we have been abstaining till now.

The toughest part hasn't been abstaining from alcohol so much as dealing with people's ideas about a girl who doesn't drink.

The CDC previously recommended that men who had been infected abstain from unprotected sexual contact for at least six months with a partner who was pregnant or hoping to become pregnant.

They had been ordered to abstain on an amendment calling for one.

WASHINGTON — In an unusually public rebuke, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been forced to abstain from a United Nations resolution on Gaza that she helped draft, after Mr. Olmert placed a phone call to President Bush.

It was an irritation to many journalists that he had been asked to abstain from giving his spontaneous reaction to the assembled press corps ahead of a pooled interview and a press conference at Edinburgh University on Friday.

The men had been asked to abstain from ejaculation for at least 48 h prior to participation in the study.