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Example sentences for: abstaining
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But courts have even upheld parents' right to condition gifts on the heir's abstaining from smoking or marrying someone of a certain religion or ethnicity.
The final tally was 120 to 7 (with 21 countries abstaining); in dissenting, the United States joins such human rights luminaries as China, Sudan, Turkey, and Indonesia.
As in abstaining from killing, one can cross the initial stage of this spectrum and remain unsure about how far to ascend on the scale.