0 present participle of abstain --
1 to not do something, especially something enjoyable that you think might be bad: --
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.
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.
First there was the possibility of abstaining.
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.
This pattern was replicated when currently abstaining users were excluded.
For 1902, abstaining members were identified, and numbered 89 (but are not presented here).
The current study was not able to differentiate adolescents within the abstinence group based on their reasoning for abstaining from substance use.
I calculated the probability of casting a vote for the incumbent party, as opposed to abstaining or voting for his opponent.
