Exempel på abstaining

• 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.