Sentence examples for through abstention from inspiring English sources

The intention was not to portray certain foods as unclean, but rather to teach a spiritual lesson in self-restraint through abstention.

Many conservative Christians mocked the Hindus' quaint belief in transmigration, but the doctrine of non-violence is a guiding ethical principle that manifests itself through abstention from meat.

On the basis of such an independent foreign policy analysis, courts accommodate these interests through abstention, special interpretive canons, federal common law, or preemption as they best saw fit.

Through abstention, Canada has once again refused to take a moral stance against poverty.

Whilst it is established that alcohol increases the risk of liver cancer, it is not established to what extent this increased risk is reversible through abstention of alcohol consumption.

But in the end even he walked through the abstention door.

Zen makes another equally important contention through this abstention, namely that time and space are lived as integrated space-time in the interfusion of a concrete temporalization and spatialization.

Unlike the state Assembly, New Jersey's Senate has no provision for a protest vote through an official abstention.

Eating does this, too, not just because it displays a lack of control, a primal desire for food (and food that, eaten in transit, is usually fast and cheap) but because eating anything at all is a grimly unfeminine act – the pursuit of all women should be an existential reduction of flesh through means of abstention and exhaustion and regular exfoliation.

This was the case, long before it could be said that the Rule was an abstention doctrine through its preclusion of duty of care claims, where the Rule, by precluding a fairness review of a Board decision unless a fiduciary duty had been breached or some sort of taint had surrounded the decision, was established as an abstention doctrine in the most fundamental way.

The Commons vote came at the end of a serious five-hour debate in which the shadow business secretary, John Denham, warned: "If this Tory measure goes through with the support or abstention of Liberal Democrats, that party will forfeit the right to call itself a progressive political party".