The address was seconded by Lord Portman, and fully assented to by the Duke of Wellington, who said he would follow the example which had been set him of abstaining from every remark that could awaken party feeling.
To run our commerce with totally abstaining employees we must find our totally abstaining employees.
On inquiry the Postmaster had ascertained that Harrison was able to earn $10 a week and more, but that "for the purpose of agitation, he had deliberately lowered the amount of his wages by abstaining from doing full work.
Hence the doctrine of euphaemismos, the necessity of abstaining from strong words or direct words in expressing fatal contingencies.
Nor is he alive to the evils of confounding vice and crime; or to the necessity of governments abstaining from excessive interference with their subjects.
For in those days men are said to have lived a sort of Orphic life, having the use of all lifeless things, but abstaining from all living things.
A woman that follows the old prescribed practice has to take jhall and thap and go through a strict course of dietetics, abstaining altogether from the use of cold water or any cooling beverage.
I will, therefore, confine myself to a description of the ceremonies, entirely abstaining from an allusion to the abominations connected therewith.
Every Hindoo, young or old, who is able to read and write, observes this ceremony with apparent solemnity, abstaining from the use of fish on that day as a mark of reverence to the goddess.
Let him observe them both abstaining from a sufficiency, lest the children should feel the pinchings of hunger.
Can reason subscribe to the ridiculous obligation ofabstaining from certain aliments and meats which is imposed by some sects of Christians?
It So happens that as I was coming to this meeting I met with a gentleman who had just been to consult his medical man; and finding I was coming to this meeting, he laughed at all idea of abstaining from intoxicating drinks.
As the latter was dissatisfied Cicero resigned Macedonia to him, in return for his public assurance of abstaining from opposing Cicero's acts during their year of office.
Preachers no longer recommend "abstaining not only from unlawful pleasures, but also from lawful delights.
This consists in performing the actions which benefit ourselves and our neighbours, in other words, pleasant ones, and abstaining from whatever is painful and injurious.
I lower my eyes modestly,' replied Ahnaf, 'and salute them first, abstaining from what does not concern me and being sparing of words.
In China "the slaughter of buffaloes for food is unlawful, according to the assertions of the people, and the abstaining from the eating of beef is regarded as very meritorious.
A volition may have reference not only to the doing of a thing, but to the abstaining from doing a thing.
A right is not always a person's right to a certain activity, or to abstaining from a certain activity; it may have exclusive reference to other people's acts or omissions.
There is no sufficient reason to assume that this practice of abstaining from cooking food after a death is a survival of a previous mourning fast, but the two customs seem partly to have a similar origin.
It is probable he connected Jack's abstaining from showing himself on deck, and his alleged indisposition, with his supposed delinquency in this matter of the boat.
I was certainly a better man for abstaining and she a better woman and I determined not to have connection unless we were carried away by our love.
Melbourne with Miss T, to sell off the furniture before settling in Adelaide, I was rather glad of the opportunity of abstaining from coitus and of watching myself to see if I again improved.
Right conduct" is the abstaining from all actions tending to evil courses by one who possesses faith and knowledge, and who is diligent in cutting off the series of actions and their effects which constitutes mundane existence.
Thus abstaining from doing injury is a good yoga of the body; speaking what is true, measured, and profitable is a good yoga of the speech.
All these and many more advantages resulted from their abstaining entirely, and at all times, from the use of ardent spirits.
Consider then, beloved youth, some of the numerous motives forabstaining from intoxicating liquor and other hurtful indulgences, and employing your time and faculties with a view to the highest improvement and usefulness.
The mere hearing of the principles of Temperance Societies was sufficient to make converts of some of the teachers; for what can be more rational than abstaining from intoxicating drinks and promoting temperance?
As to the ancient Arabs setting apart a certain portion of the produce of their lands for their idols, and their superstitions abstainingfrom the use of certain cattle, in honour to the same, see chapter 5, p.
This they spoke of in a scoffing manner, justifying their idolatry and superstitious abstaining from certain cattle,3 by pretending, that had these things been disagreeable to GOD, he would not have suffered them to be practised.
Allowing what GOD hath forbidden, and superstitiously abstaining from what he hath allowed.
Among the Karen-nis of Upper Burma a chief attains his position, not by hereditary right, but on account of his habit of abstaining from rice and liquor.
By totally abstaining from everything that heats the blood and inflames passion, as drinking, etc.
Such things may certainly have their effect, as means, but every good cause is so much the purer for abstainingfrom the use of questionable agencies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abstaining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
