Sentence examples for resolved to abstain from inspiring English sources

The allure was so great for Bobby Holik, a snarling sweetheart of a forward with a scar zigzagging from the top of one ear across his scalp, that, while growing up in the Czech mining town of Jihlava, he resolved to abstain from drinking alcohol until he could sip from the Cup which he did, after winning with the New Jersey Devils, in 1995.

The allure was so great for Bobby Holik, a snarling sweetheart of a forward with a scar zigzagging from the top of one ear across his scalp, that, while growing up in the Czech mining town of Jihlava, he resolved to abstain from drinking alcohol until he could sip from the Cup — which he did, after winning with the New Jersey Devils, in 1995.

But a major shift in her career occurred in 1971 when she went to the Royal Court to appear in David Hare's Slag, which showed three female teachers resolving to abstain from sex: as the eldest of the three, full of old school ties and sporting inclinations, she was unnervingly funny.

He resolved to protect him.

Moroun resolved to take control.

I would have liked a yes vote but was resolved on getting us to abstain at the very least.

We have no occasion to resolve what additional authority to abstain might be provided under our decision in Fair Assessment, see supra, at 11-12.

They signalled they would abstain on their own policy, before latterly resolving to back it – and pleading with their MPs to follow.

I believe that the provisions of the Act now challenged are void on their face, that there are no factual issues to be resolved which should condition the outcome of the litigation, and that therefore there is no reason for the lower court to abstain from exercising its jurisdiction.

Entropy merely resolves to equilibrium.

Many Greeks plan to abstain.