Sentence examples for refraining from alcohol from inspiring English sources

Whatever you do, don't enable your friend's addiction — and that doesn't mean just refraining from alcohol or drug use around them (though you should do that, too).

I have been doing everything they asked with all the shots at all the right times, bottles and bottles of vitamins, refraining from alcohol, no exercising, etc. Okay, so I have been having caffeine.

To the King's later regret, David Lloyd George persuaded him to go further by ostentatiously locking the wine cellars and refraining from alcohol, to set a good example to the supposedly inebriated working class.

His mother was a Quaker and his father converted from Methodism to the Quaker faith; Nixon's upbringing was marked by conservative Quaker observances of the time, such as refraining from alcohol, dancing, and swearing.

Sex workers who are living with HIV spoke positively about the clinical advice they had received to "eat healthy foods," but the definitions of "healthy foods" ranged from having any food available at all, to refraining from alcohol abuse or fried foods, to integrating more fruits and vegetables or more traditional Swazi foods into their diets.

If keeping kosher or refraining from alcohol makes you feel constrained and helpless, you can abandon those strictures.

We chose men ages 21 to 30 who reported roughly the same amount of experience drinking, and we asked them to refrain from alcohol or drugs for 24 hours before the study and from food or caffeine for four hours before.

For both fasted and fed conditions, subjects were instructed to fast at least 8 h before the study and refrain from alcohol use for at least 48 h before the study (subjects remained blind to randomization schema until arriving at the laboratory, at which point they were informed of the sequence of scheduled activities).

The justice of the peace, Meg Belcastro, admonished Mr. Jones before ordering him to stay out of Canada except for visits to court or his lawyer's office, to keep out of parks around Niagara Falls and to refrain from alcohol or nonprescription drugs until his next court appearance, scheduled for Nov. 26.

And he took a poke at Mr. Obama's "you didn't build that" statement, saying the apostle St. Peter had "so many skeptics and scoffers at the time who were heard to say, 'If you got a church, you didn't build that.' " Mr. Romney also shared his secrets for debate preparation: "First, refrain from alcohol for 65 years before the debate.

They were encouraged to refrain from alcohol use and strenuous exercise for 48 h, along with food and caffeine for 3 h prior to each trial.