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the abstaining
verb
Keep or withhold oneself.
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Teetotalism (the abstaining from alcohol) can be socially contradictory and isolating while is neutral or positive in legal contexts and is positive in spiritual and health virtue.
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It passed 14 to 0, with the United States abstaining.
Last fall the Teamsters, along with the United Auto Workers, abstained when the labor federation announced its early endorsement of Vice President Al Gore.
The U.S. abstained on the 11 0 Security Council vote on the resolution.
The UK abstained in the vote alongside Luxembourg and the Czech Republic.
Five of the women reported abstaining from drinking for the entire duration of the study.
The United States abstained from the vote after working to tone down the resolution's harshness toward Israel.
The United States abstained from the vote, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office called the council's action a "travesty".
The PPF abstained in the vote, despite being BHS's biggest creditor.
The United States abstained in the only council resolution that was approved.
China, regarded as a Russian ally on the issue, abstained from the vote.
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