abstainer

Examples of abstaining

abstaining

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

Although these groups of adolescents were similar in that they abstained from substance use, their reasons for abstaining were unique to each group.
Needless to say, impacts on the legislative result and sanction from the party leadership would differ between voting against and abstaining from the bills.
Of the 479 total speeches, 204 were from senators voting yea and 272 from senators voting nay (with one senator abstaining).
For the younger respondents, such sacrifices frequently involved abstaining from social eating and drinking.
By contrast, when currently abstaining users were also included the correlations with days since last use fell well short of significance.
This is a startlingly high proportion, and the correlations were only marginally weaker when they excluded participants who had used regularly but were now abstaining.
It could be argued that abstentions should also be given a value of zero, since abstaining governments refuse to support a measure.
I calculated the probability of casting a vote for the incumbent party, as opposed to abstaining or voting for his opponent.
The current study was not able to differentiate adolescents within the abstinence group based on their reasoning for abstaining from substance use.
For 1902, abstaining members were identified, and numbered 89 (but are not presented here).
This pattern was replicated when currently abstaining users were excluded.
Abstaining from research or to limit the findings of research at the risk of having the results used for nefarious purposes is to do a greater harm.
First there was the possibility of abstaining.
Many of the remainder are still abstaining after their last birth and have yet to face the decision whether to take further action to avoid pregnancy.
Thirdly, the probability of a person's abstaining from voting is barely affected by sociotropic measures of either insecurity or performance, but egocentric evaluations of both types are a different story.
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