Eksempler på abstemious

• His choice of breakfast foods became more abstemious and of wine more that of an oenophile.

• Although she is not exactly a spinster, there is definitely something abstemious to her.

• I am not concerned here either to work out a complete view of what law must necessarily do or to defend my abstemious suggestions.

• That set of claims about what law necessarily does strikes me, incidentally, as ver y abstemious.

• The considerable lower divorce risks experienced by moderate drinkers (as compared with their more abstemious counterparts) are apparent only at higher marriage durations.

• Territorials are, of course, extremely abstemious people, but after a spell in the drill hall they sometimes like to have a pint of beer.

• There is no point in being abstemious if one is going to lose badly.

• One can drink a bottle of light wine to one glass of port and it is more abstemious to drink port in those circumstances.

• I believe the people of my country are as sober and abstemious as the people of any other country.

• Judged on any international comparison, whether in relation to spirits, wines or beer, we are still a relatively abstemious nation.

• To add insult to injury, the sums of money these people have been paying themselves make the directors of our national utilities look positively abstemious.

• We have been extraordinarily abstemious.

• We were very abstemious—teetotallers and non-smokers.

• This was partly possible because of his abstemious habits, eschewing both tobacco and strong drink.

• The pair's increasingly erratic behavior distressed their more abstemious father, and the worry weakened him.