How To Use Abstinent In A Sentence

  • In our opinion, the fact that in our study 10% of participants unwilling or unable to stop smoking at baseline were abstinent at two years clearly gives support to the idea that smoking reduction can be a step towards abstinence.
  • Encouraging teens to be abstinent is a worthy (if impossible) goal, but not at the expense of leaving them unprepared to practice safe sex. Blog for Choice 2008 | spazeboy
  • Similarly, some very health-minded people will do the healthy thing and remain abstinent until marriage, then remain faithful to their spouses. Matthew Yglesias » Health and Wealth
  • Paradise, how abstinently would he have walked by that tree! Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
  • AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) says just to sever your ties with those people to be sure that you stay abstinent. Alcohol intake of friends, family impact your drinking habits
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  • Some told The Daily Telegraph that they had no intention of assuring their bishops that they will be sexually abstinent when they ‘marry’ their partners.
  • In such a traditionally abstinent group, abuse of alcohol leads to shame and loss of traditional culture.
  • Elsewhere I have shown that even the requirement for church leaders to be "abstinent" (1 Tim 3: 2) finds its precedent in the Old Testament strict prohibition against the use of alcoholic beverages by the priests (Lev 10: 9) .32 The construction of the phrase without article "mias gunaikos andra - one-wife-man" emphasizes the moral character of the individual as being totally committed to one woman. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • There's nothing in the world wrong with encouraging adolescents to be abstinent as long as possible.
  • It is therefore highly unlikely that he will be abstinent from alcohol unless he was sectioned and in a locked environment.
  • Objective : To analyze the gender difference of cue - elicited heroin craving in abstinent heroin addicts.
  • The group, made up of politicians, health boards and doctors, have declared that telling pupils to be abstinent is too ‘preachy’ and will stigmatise those pupils who have already had sex.
  • 'Mr. Thrale never will live abstinently, till he can persuade himself to live by rule [1307]. Life of Johnson
  • Participants who were abstinent from drugs and alcohol during anger management treatment but did not complete anger management treatment were coded as relapsed at the time of the dropout.
  • I bet he fucked his cello when he was "abstinent". "Abstinence allowed me to get rid of the garbage internally and externally."
  • Fisher did not report observing any significant changes in the number of abstinent students in their university-based study.
  • In order to be eligible to be placed, residents will need to be abstinent from drugs and alcohol and remain so, on or off
  • It is therefore highly unlikely that he will be abstinent from alcohol unless he was sectioned and in a locked environment.
  • We know it has something to do with sex, but if we are asking people to be abstinent from sexual activity, what are the specific behaviors from which we are asking them to abstain?
  • Patients who had had a myocardial infarction were much more likely to be abstinent at 12 months compared with patients who had undergone bypass surgery.
  • The "herbivores" - a trend in Japan of men who live abstinently and take women as friends instead of lovers - is often trotted out in articles about the fall of masculinity, the subtext being that once guys start to be emotionally nuanced part-time househusbands, they will no longer possess a primal drive for sex. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • ‘It is very hard to keep abstinent without support,’ said Carter.
  • not totally abstinent but abstemious
  • Cognitive performance in long-term abstinent alcoholic individuals. Psychology Today
  • They were about one and a half times more likely to be abstinent from marijuana, alcohol, and other drug use in the year after treatment.
  • I cut right down (ie. largely abstinent except for the odd lapse) a few months ago.
  • There's nothing worse than being abstinent because you're due to play soon.
  • Disciplined, introverted, abstinent, he achieved both aims, becoming a judo champion and, after law school, KGB recruit.
  • Naltrexone seems to interfere with the craving for alcohol that abstinent people feel, Gordis explained.
  • Objective:To understand whether or not biofeedback therapy(BT) and cue-exposure therapy (CET) could decrease craving and heroin-related cue reactivity in abstinent heroin dependents.
  • New research suggested that some alcohol-dependent people could successfully return to normal drinking, instead of having to choose between remaining abstinent, or losing it completely.
  • Presumably the abstinent are the best judges of the ratedness of abstinence, over or not. "Abstinence allowed me to get rid of the garbage internally and externally."
  • He said that he remained abstinent from alcohol and marijuana for ten years.
  • Lesley believes that her main reason for remaining abstinent was for herself and her son. ‘I couldn't put my son through what he's been through another time.’
  • We don't want leaders who are willing to slap the public's desire -- support for comprehensive programs -- in the face, selling out to programs that will fund efforts to make us "pure" and "abstinent" -- and ultimately worse off -- until the age of 29! Yvonne Fulbright and Danielle Cavallucci: Are you %&*#'ing Kidding Me??
  • All four, who were abstinent when interviewed, had a history of considerable alcohol misuse in 1997.
  • Nihil est quod aeque melancholiam alat ac augeat, ac otium et abstinentia a corporis et animi exercitationibus. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Indeed, very many females and males are neither abstinent nor sexually exclusive.
  • Nihil est quod aeque melancholiam alat ac augeat, ac otium et abstinentia a corporis et animi exercitationibus. Anatomy of Melancholy

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