Sentence examples for voluntary abstinence from inspiring English sources

For China, as for all the third world, this is a result not of virtue or voluntary abstinence but of poverty.

At another stop, the candidate urged high school students to swear off drugs and alcohol, but later declined to say if he supported voluntary abstinence for everyone.

However, moderationists approve of voluntary abstinence in several cases, such as for a person who finds it too difficult to drink in moderation and for the benefit of the "weaker brother," who would err because of a stronger Christian exercising his or her liberty to drink.

Whereas acute systemic atomoxetine administration prevented relapse after voluntary abstinence (Economidou et al., 2009), it did not affect cocaine seeking under punishment (Pelloux et al., 2012).

Punishment of drug seeking resulting in voluntary abstinence has also been used, although infrequently, in studies of subsequent relapse (Economidou et al., 2009; Marchant et al., 2013).

First, at the end of feeding experiments (described above), when mice were sated (defined by voluntary abstinence from licking for liquid food), we repeated the photostimulation procedure to confirm identification of recorded cells.

But earlier this month, two sociologists reported that among teenagers who had never had intercourse, those who made voluntary public abstinence pledges delayed the act about 18 months longer than those who did not make a pledge.

Unlike in drug courts, participation is voluntary and abstinence from drug use is not required.

Effects of voluntary short-term abstinence from alcohol on subsequent drinking patterns of college students.

However, no study to date has investigated the consequences of prolonged periods (12 weeks) of voluntary binge-like alcohol consumption and abstinence on anxiety-like behaviors and hippocampal neuron proliferation or differentiation.

The study, which analyzed the answers of 6,800 students from 141 schools to a range of questions, is the first to show that any of the activities associated with a growing movement to promote abstinence -- in this case, through voluntary virginity pledges -- has any effect on the sexual behavior of teenagers.