It may be here stated that the committee was comprised of equal numbers of abstainersand non-abstainers, to which latter class the afore-mentioned speakers belonged.
This gain was but slight among those classed as moderate drinkers, for their mortality was only three per cent less than the average mortality; but among the total abstainers it was thirty-one per cent less.
The oldest two life insurance companies of England, the General Provident and the United Kingdom, have made records for forty-five years which distinguish the total abstainers and the moderate drinkers.
Thus the proportion of deaths among moderate drinkers compared to that of total abstainers is as 97 to 69.
The policemen, abstainers themselves they informed me, believed the people were sober because they were mostly church and chapel goers and had been brought up to regard intemperance as a great defect in a man and a great sin.
The grape vine bids fair to lead to wine-making in both islands--unless the total abstainers grow strong enough to put their foot on the manufacture of alcohol in any form in an already distinctly and increasingly sober Colony.
But the Moderate vote more than trebled, and the attacking abstainers were repulsed all along the line, though they, on their side, defeated an attempt to recapture Clutha.
The general result will be the gradual development of a generation of total abstainers from the use of tobacco.
We have already alluded to the findings of insurance companies with reference to the length of life--the abstainers from alcohol have a much better chance of a longer life and much less likelihood of infection by disease germs.
Total abstainers are better subjects for operation, and recover more rapidly from accidents, than those who habitually take stimulants.
Many corporations, notably several of our greatest railroads (the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Railroad among them), refuse to employ any but abstainers in positions of trust.
A body of Christian abstainers united in the same work, and bound by the same pledge, attract others, and give them something to lean on and cling to: and that is one reason why we want children to combine in Bands of Hope.
And so we want to gather together the power and influence of totalabstainers in Total Abstinence Societies and Bands of Hope, by their union through the pledge as a common bond.
Plenty o' men who ain't abstainers go to sleep every night at the Welcome, 'cause they find the beds and other things so comfortable.
The totalabstainers need not, to quote Hamlet, "know a hawk from a handsaw.
The total abstainers say: "Let us break ourselves altogether of the feather wearing habit.
Both of these attitudes are equally useful to the cause if they are maintained consistently, but inevitably the way of the total abstainers is the easier of the two.
They partake of one meal daily, in the afternoon, and are abstainers from flesh dietary.
This shows us clearly that when total abstainers become ill outside the prison, their illness is to be attributed to some error in diet or hygiene, or to some accidental circumstance.
Even those who were abstainers from liquors as beverages distrusted him for not using these things as medicines.
In it he gives the experience of different life insurance companies which have separate sections for total abstainers and non-abstainers.
Children of abstainers dying in the first year, 13.
If doctors recommended alcohol to their patients, he had been asked what abstainers should do.
The Equitable Company had a section for total abstainers for a few years which was discontinued on account of the new insurance laws which came into effect in 1907.
These vegetable reformers and abstainers from salt are, I am afraid, ignorant of these facts.
Abstainers from animal-food who get into any difficulty about their diet should seek advice from those who have experience, or should consult a fruitarian physician.
Abstainers from flesh should begin to live to some extent (say two days a week) in picnic style, and the practice will soon become more habitual.
The Blue Ring of Total Abstinence," which is entirely Mr. Charrington's idea, and serves as a badge that unites abstainersthroughout the whole world.
As a symbol, as a cementing of the great brotherhood of abstainers formed by Mr. Charrington, it is unique.
Nevertheless, the abstainers exhibited a far lower mortality than that experienced by the general class.
Sidenote: Comparative Mortality Among Abstainers and Non-Abstainers] The comparative mortality among abstainers and non-abstainers in several of these companies is shown in the charts exhibited in this section.
During a twelve years' experience the mortality among the abstainers was one-third that of the tabular expectation, and their occupations were classified as follows: Clergymen 4 per cent.
Moore, Roderick McKenzie: On the Comparative Mortality Among Assured Lives of Abstainersand Non-Abstainers from Alcoholic Beverages.
You see me and mine; you see seven total abstainers here to-night.
There will, indeed, be a temporary social hardship for many abstainers until the custom is generally broken up; one runs the risk of being thought by the heedless a prig and a Puritan.
The fact that some individual abstainers from flesh have also abstained from all animal substances is no justification of the attempt to impose such stricter abstinence on all vegetarians on peril of being deprived of their name.
I say without hesitation that the best men I had were the abstainers and the worst men I had were the drinkers.
Many total abstainers from alcohol are tempted to take "gassy" drinks, fizzes and so forth.
But I very much doubt if any but total abstainers could appreciate some of the witticisms that, according to the book in question, occasionally issue from the mouths of babes and sucklings.
None but those, however, who are conversant with the strange methods total abstainers will adopt to gain their ends will be inclined to attach some weight to them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abstainers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
