Exempel på abstain

• The sole television channel, on the air since 1954, completely abstained from political programmes and editorials.

• Before each testing session, subjects were fasted for at least 4 h and abstained from caffeine.

• They had different mentalities and abstained as much as possible from social responsibilities.

• By contrast, when currently abstaining users were also included the correlations with days since last use fell well short of significance.

• All subjects abstained from caffeine, alcohol and nicotine for at least 8 h before each session.

• 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.

• I calculated the probability of casting a vote for the incumbent party, as opposed to abstaining or voting for his opponent.

• To prevent close pregnancies completely though not always intentionally, man in pre-industrial societies abstained from intercourse for varying periods.

• Many of those who abstained preferred to take the risk of being 'punished' for not voting rather than pay the consequences of a ' bad ' choice.

• As a consequence, lower income groups abstained from buying the tobacco leaf.

• The current study was not able to differentiate adolescents within the abstinence group based on their reasoning for abstaining from substance use.

• Patients were either unmedicated or had abstained from a psychostimulant medication regime for at least 24 h prior to neurocognitive assessment.

• More than once he refers to having seen unknown plants or drugs, but often he abstains from describing them.