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1 The Green Party said it would abstain from voting on the legislation.
2 People choose to abstain from sex for a myriad of thought-provoking reasons.
3 One must abstain from applying washes of any tints on the original.
4 A widower would abstain from society and the theater for six months.
5 I abstain from it, because I deem it just to do so.
6 But the government could do something more than simply abstain from harm.
7 The committee therefore abstain from expressing an opinion as to its merits.
8 The choice for these women to abstain from sex is often notional.
9 But she felt it to be her duty to abstain from rebukes.
10 To abstain from sex in a marriage, is just the opposite, unnatural.
11 I purposely abstain from troubling you by any useless allusions to myself.
12 This had had really to do with making her abstain from interference.
13 If she is wise, she'll abstain from offending you in my presence.
14 I purposely abstain from giving any direct clue to the criminal's individuality.
15 Then we must abstain from spoiling the dead or hindering their burial?
16 Why does the Church command us to abstain from flesh-meat on Fridays?
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