abstain from

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• As part of this practice, Muslims abstain from food, water, smoking, sex and all sensory pleasures from dawn to dusk during Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar.

• Metro board member Michael Goldman, who represents Maryland, abstained from the vote, saying the transit agency should switch completely to electric-bus purchases starting next year.

• Soon-Shiong, who had told The Post as recently as midweek that he hadn’t yet decided how he was going to vote on the offer, ended up abstaining from voting.

• He would drink and take drugs to “feel less of what I was feeling,” estimating that, even if he abstained during the week, he would drink a week’s worth in one day on a Friday or Saturday night.

• Maybe they’re abstaining because they had severe alcohol-use disorders in the past, and this has led to health conditions.

• In fact, I publicly vowed to abstain from The Ball in 2012, but professional responsibilities and curiosity got the better of me.

• But the two also could abstain from caucusing with either party and possibly have even more clout.

• So is everyone around you, even if you find a way to abstain.

• Pollsters have been predicting disillusioned leftist voters are particularly likely to abstain.

• Users then have the option to vote for or against each law, or simply abstain.

• It is not the right of any one, according to his pleasure, to abstain from entering into Covenant with God.

• Let it be put forth in leading to abstain from countenancing an evil constitution, and to raise above the fear of consequences.