Sentence examples for resolved to abstain from 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.

(The only minister to abstain from voting was Avi Dichter).

Instead, it advises kids to abstain from sex until marriage.

It's a lot like trying to abstain from drinking".

But he found it difficult to abstain from interpretation.

Lawyers for Daisy asked Ms. Brown yesterday to abstain from voting.

March 19, 1877 At a temperance meeting on campus, nine students sign a pledge to abstain from alcohol.

The parents of pediatric patients are routinely instructed to abstain from food and liquids before elective surgeries.

Loss of sleep may impair the ability to abstain from drug use, through any of a number of mechanisms.

You also have to abstain from anger, and everything that separates you from God.