abstainer

Examples of abstained

abstained

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Most city dwellers did not bother to pass by - they simply abstained.
Although these groups of adolescents were similar in that they abstained from substance use, their reasons for abstaining were unique to each group.
Which girls abstained from these games, or varied them?
The sole television channel, on the air since 1954, completely abstained from political programmes and editorials.
He has cut his salary, abstained from alcohol, worked absurdly long hours, and shared the presidential residence with members of his cabinet.
If they had abstained from manipulation, we would have been able to detect all individual cases of cancer that had resulted from their actions.
Indeed, it may well have been pressure-group activity that brought pro-abolitionists into the division lobbies in 1956 after having abstained in 1955.
But rather than explaining what constituted them as old, she relied on a shared understanding of old age and thus abstained from providing any explanation.
Secondly, the revolutionary alliance found itself increasingly caught between two forces which either actively opposed the process or aggressively abstained from it.
They had different mentalities and abstained as much as possible from social responsibilities.
Only 34 per cent said that they would vote for it, while 44 per cent would vote against (the rest didn't know or abstained).
The second group includes those who were members of the institution at the time of both divisions, but who abstained on one or other ballot.
Agalev abstained because it felt the resolutions hinted at a confederal rather than a federal model.
In 1958 the numbers were little better : 33.9 per cent registered but of those 13.9 abstained from voting.
To prevent close pregnancies completely though not always intentionally, man in pre-industrial societies abstained from intercourse for varying periods.
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