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Of course, we want teenagers to abstain from smoking, just as we want them to abstain from sex.
"People can abstain from alcohol and drugs to help with the connection between the substance and the receptors in the brain, but people can't abstain from sex," he says.
I hate scarves the same way others abstain from belts.
They argue that most Americans abstain from such party contests.
Another 50 are commanded to abstain from the delicious stuff.
Abstain from social media and you are labeled a dinosaur.
Even just the nonintuitive choice to abstain from making Mrs.
Another 13 are commanded to abstain from the delicious stuff.
Abstain from using controlled substances or alcohol (she'll be drug tested).
Rarely has the decision to abstain from italics been so prophetic.
What if we had to abstain from kissing and oral sex?
Several opposition leaders called on their countrymen to abstain from voting.
The 52-year-old was ordered to abstain from drugs and alcohol .
The 52-year-old was ordered to  abstain from drugs and alcohol .
I mean, in a perfect world, we'd all abstain from sex, whatever.
Did you gracefully abstain from prom, and head to the beach instead?
If you can abstain from alcohol while you're on antibiotics, do that.
After much prayerful consideration, I have to abstain from the upcoming blowjob.
Labour, the main opposition party, whipped its members to abstain from voting.
Moreover, people who abstain from unhealthy practices also get sick and die eventually.
When I abstain from food and drink and still take a long run.
Now men there are required to abstain from gay sex for a year.
They had to abstain from any heroin use for the entire trial period.
They act mostly normally, though for inexplicable reasons, they generally abstain from sex.
Today, age and wisdom have informed her decision to abstain from the surgery.
They fast, abstain from sex and face the sun and pray each morning.
It is simply illogical to call yourself pro-choice and abstain from voting.
Over 50 members of Congress opted to abstain from the inauguration and related event.
These books don't merely abstain from American simplicity; they poke it in the sternum.
Perhaps technology has messed up all young people, even those who abstain from it.
Abstain from masturbation to express gratitude to Apple for freeing you from porn.5.
The couple has been very public about their decision to abstain from premarital sex.
Women, for instance, would need to take it every day and abstain from alcohol.
Now that the proposal has been withdrawn, Glass Lewis recommends shareholders abstain from voting.
They mostly abstain from Photoshop, preferring to pull off the mirage with their hands.
Could you please ask your team to abstain from taking this close an inspiration.
People who abstain from eating meat, drinking alcohol and sinful behavior will be blessed.
Canada, the Czech Republic and Hungary might abstain from the vote, according to diplomats.
Two Western officials said that President Barack Obama had intended to abstain from the vote.
In Buddhism, the report says, suicide violates a basic tenet: to abstain from taking life.
They asked participants to abstain from smoking for 12 hours before they measured the baseline.
That's why many observant Catholics will fast and abstain from meat on Fridays year-round.
Brazilian authorities have recommended that women abstain from having sex while the outbreak is ongoing.
Thus, some Twitch streamers have decided to abstain from streaming in solidarity with the protesters.
Men with symptoms should abstain from sex or use condoms for at least six months.
A lack of "sober monitors," fraternity members who abstain from drinking and supervise the party.
Traditionally, antitrust officials have addressed concerns by making companies agree to abstain from anticompetitive practices.
That stance rattled Renault's French labor union, whose representative planned to abstain from a vote.
Slaves might be told to abstain from orgasms, ostensibly to heal their negative sexual patterns.
But Christians were still expected to abstain from meats, dairies and sweets on certain days.
This year, even more companies are loudly promoting their plans to abstain from Turkey Day sales.
Domestic politics is another reason why New Delhi may wish to abstain from an armed conflict.
Elsewhere men must abstain from gay sex from between three months to five years before donating.
ISS, a shareholder proxy firm, had advised investors to abstain from voting to re-elect Staley.
"We call on transporters and passengers to abstain from traveling to avoid inconveniences," the statement said.
Throughout the month, they abstain from eating and drinking during daylight — nearly 17 hours most days.
Some abstain from sex, booze, and beef, while others allow for a bit more wiggle room.
During the talks, AT&T representatives said the combined company would abstain from anticompetitive business practices.
Those who do so may be more motivated to abstain from drinking than those who don't.
In "Waiting Until Marriage," a heterosexual couple explains why they have decided to abstain from sex.
"Women should abstain from all types of tobacco and nicotine containing products during pregnancy," Nordenstam said.
It's also possible that Kyl's connection to Kavanaugh might make him abstain from voting on him.
On the House floor, members are encouraged to abstain from language "personally offensive" to the president.
People who abstain from eating meat, especially vegans, are often ridiculed or vilified by meat eaters.
The Labour Party has indicated that it will abstain from voting on Johnson's call for a Dec.
Additionally, 35 states required patients to abstain from drinking in order to gain access to the drug.
The Left party is not officially supporting Lofven but will abstain from voting against him on Friday.
The decision to abstain from such techniques, just and wise though it was, came at a cost.
I think that's from a lot of people in Appalachia who are poor and abstain from alcohol.
For example, many vegetarians cite the sentience of animals as a reason to abstain from eating them.
In return, the Trump administration has agreed to abstain from imposing tariffs against European carmakers for now.
From sunrise to sunset, Muslims are not supposed to eat, drink or smoke, and abstain from sex.
Amish online They still drive horse-drawn buggies and continue to abstain from most kinds of technology.
U.N. member states should also create leverage to persuade China to abstain from blocking such an effort.
Passengers were asked to abstain from calling the ship's medical center except in cases of an emergency.
Mr. Temer needed at least 172 lawmakers to back him or abstain from voting to avoid prosecution.
The Obama administration chose to abstain from the vote rather than exercise its veto to block it.
A group of Democratic senators urged Trump in a Tuesday letter to abstain from the vote again.
But Cox was now faced with an order from the president to abstain from seeking more tapes.
In certain cases, that cutoff is not reached because many of the member states abstain from the vote.
Yes, but: Shell's decision to abstain from the fight is unlikely to win it much praise from critics.
The bill passed the House Tuesday 398–17 with five members voting "present" to abstain from the vote.
The user can either abstain from sex or use barrier protection, such as a condom, to prevent pregnancies.
Boycotting the vote is risky following a presidential decree that criminalized calls to abstain from casting a ballot.
Fortunately, the spokesperson says that that doesn't mean you have to abstain from chocolate hearts altogether this year.
The Obama administration made the right decision to abstain from vetoing a United Nations resolution condemning the settlements.
He said DWS would abstain from the shareholder vote of confidence in the executive and non-executive boards.
Less than half of workers said they could abstain from checking work emails in their own off-time.
ISS, another shareholder proxy firm, meanwhile advised shareholders abstain from voting to reelect Barclays Chief Executive Jes Staley.
That's why it's an especially good idea to abstain from having oral sex when you have a sore.
Patrick Leahy wrote President Donald Trump on Tuesday to urge him to abstain from voting on the resolution.
Twenty-six percent of voters said they would abstain from voting in the fall election for retiring Sen.
The resolution passed because of the Obama administration's decision to abstain from voting on it late last year.
The meme, falsely identified as from Democrats, reportedly encouraged men to abstain from voting in the midterm elections.
Jay-Z was "disappointed" in Colin Kaepernick's decision to abstain from a private workout organized by the NFL.
They will abstain from eating and drinking and making love, since corpses can do none of those things.
Renault's decision to abstain from the vote denies the proposal the two-thirds majority it needs to pass.
The other task, Dr. Hoffman says, is to abstain from the drug one day out of the week.
If Stein didn't happen to fall deeply in step with my views, I would abstain from voting entirely.
"Nissan has received a letter from Renault indicating intention to abstain from voting," Nissan said in a statement.
The athletes were instructed to abstain from sex for at least 24 hours before the beginning of the study.
Given past precedent and the potential for widespread disruption in the rail network, regulators should abstain from such efforts.
When you're hit in your gut, you should abstain from immediately trying to translate that in art or expression.
He was very confused when she insisted he opt for a business-casual look and abstain from any stripping.
The meme, falsely identified as originating from Democrats, reportedly encouraged men to abstain from voting in the midterm elections.
It can also be prevented if you abstain from eating the foods you find to be your bloat triggers.
Bird also was ordered to stay away from the woman and witnesses and to abstain from drugs and alcohol.
I will, however, abstain from licking the outside of avocados to claim them as my own from now on.
Both she and James see childbearing as labor, and view abortion as people's unalienable right to abstain from it.
The Christian minority -- who believe they are obliged to abstain from war -- counts about 100,000 worshipers in South Korea.
Part of this program involves a decision to abstain from intimate relationships of both a sexual and romantic kind.
Buddhists follow the Five Precepts: an order to abstain from harming living things, stealing, sexual misconduct, intoxication, and lying.
Some people in my group would abstain from drinking because it was discriminatory, like white privilege at its finest.
Men who planned on attending the meetup were told to be on their best behaviour and abstain from drinking.
Why someone suffering from poor mental health would abstain from seeking professional help is ultimately down to the individual.
Or perhaps you decided to abstain from voting in protest because you weren't pleased with any of the candidates.
Thank god most of us don't do that, but at the same time, we don't completely abstain from it.
And in May the World Medical Association advised physicians around the world to abstain from implementing the new regulations.
For those of you who might not be aware, observant Jews abstain from eating leavened foods or yeast on Passover.
While today, Catholics commonly abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent, in the past, Lenten fasting was far more strict.
He said he is planning to abstain from alcohol and late nights in the run-up to his next fight.
The subjects were asked to abstain from liquid and food overnight and then head into the lab the next day.
Those who do have celiac disease, of course, have to abstain from consuming gluten for the rest of their lives.
Participants must have a criminal history, they must abstain from drugs and alcohol, and they must be ready to change.
But Comey is expected to abstain from discussing the ongoing federal Russia investigation, a Senate intelligence committee source told CNN.
"Until we know more ... you should abstain from sex or use condoms the right way every time," the CDC says.
The law was passed Wednesday by 64 votes to 12 but many French MPs chose to abstain from the vote.
The boom in divorce encouraged many in the next generation to abstain from marriage rather than enter a flawed one.
Foreign ministers from both countries also said that the U.S. and South Korea should abstain from carrying out joint exercises.
Until that happens, perhaps the only humane diet, the activists say, is one where we abstain from eating animals altogether.
It was just trying to accept sexuality, because when you're raised in a church you're taught to abstain from sexuality.
While those in the severe category might need to abstain from drinking, the vast majority of others don't, he said.
During the holy month, which began in Australia on May 17, Muslims abstain from food and drink during daylight hours.
She lost her longtime finance director, Michael Pratt, over her decision to abstain from high-dollar fundraising in the primary.
Over half the millennial respondents (55 percent) said they would abstain from alcohol for life in exchange for restful sleep.
The 37-year-old says nothing will change if young people remain apathetic and abstain from the polls and politics.
If China does abstain from purchasing Treasurys this year, U.S. interest rates on the margin could rise more than expected.
It's "hypocritical," she said, that Democrats support people's right to choose abortion, but not their right to abstain from vaccination.
The takeaway seems to be that just because children are doing well academically doesn't mean they will abstain from substance abuse.
"We recommend that Greece abstain from acts that would cause an escalation in the region," the ministry said in a statement.
The FDA's existing rules require gay and bisexual men to abstain from sexual activity for a full year before donating blood.
The deal comes at a time a growing proportion of young drinkers in Great Britain claim to abstain from drinking alcohol.
Promoted by British charity Alcohol Concern, the annual Dry January initiative encourages people to abstain from alcohol for the entire month.
Premarital sex -- West tells Lowe he asked people he was collaborating with on the new album to abstain from doing it.
To abstain from cigarettes for six months with no desire to go back, especially at his age, is a huge accomplishment.
Former/recovering addicts are fine to take CBD, he says, but should abstain from marijuana with THC, and remain completely sober.
Depending on why you've chosen to abstain from alcohol, you may also be foregoing any other mind-altering substances, cannabis included.
Shamen had to abstain from sex, meat, salt, sugar and fish, and live in isolation for a year before being anointed.
Thirty patients were told to abstain from smoking for 9 hours and given 800 mg of CBD, orally, or a placebo.
And if you abstain from ordering a double, you won't go over 200 calories with this delicious, warm, and comforting drink.
While conservative programming yields superior results, many marketers abstain from it, for fear of promoting values differing from than their own.
In that statement, Wheeler said he would abstain from participating in any decisions involving former clients for the next two years.
Polizzi received some backlash in the comments section, largely surrounding the misconception that breastfeeding mothers should abstain from drinking any alcohol.
The CDC is recommending that pregnant women with male or female partners use condoms or abstain from sex during their pregnancy.
They've also asked revelers to abstain from setting off any fireworks or any other device that could make a banging sound.
I am not arguing for gay men to abstain from sex or from working out (I have a gym membership myself).
Fasting starts then, and it lasts for thirty days: During those days, Muslims traditionally abstain from food from dawn till dusk.
The courts found that Chevron deference had to be applied, meaning courts must abstain from overriding the agency's bump stock regulation.
Trump's lawyers argued Friday that there is no rationale for the federal courts to abstain from exercising jurisdiction over his lawsuit.
In a new interview with Cosmopolitan, the singer shares an update on the couple's commitment to abstain from sex until they marry.
It's similar to the idea behind intermittent fasting, where people abstain from eating for around 14 hours a day to burn fat.
Obviously, one had to abstain from other polluting activities and make rigorous efforts to stay clean, in every sense of the word.
Try betting the other can't abstain from masturbating for the week, or tease them with pictures that don't give it all away.
Those who abstain from eating meat for religious reasons may follow more strict guidelines when it comes to cross-contamination with meat.
The CDC currently recommends that men who've had Zika use a condom or abstain from sex for six months after their illness.
But that same fighter might also abstain from sex before a fight in the belief that it will sap his manly powers.
Two of them, Shiv Sena and Biju Janata Dal, decided to abstain from voting to express their unhappiness with Modi&aposs policies.
It's also urged Hicks and former deputy counsel Annie Donaldson to abstain from sharing documents related to their time in the administration.
Overall, they found that coffee drinkers tend to have healthier livers and better glucose control than those who abstain from the bean.
The Trump administration may walk back on its commitment to abstain from offshore drilling along the coast of Florida, Politico reported Wednesday.
Canada will abstain from a United Nations vote on Thursday condemning the United States's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Before the Second Vatican Council took place in the mid-1960s, Roman Catholics were supposed to abstain from eating meat on Fridays.
Mr. Temer will need 172 federal deputies to either abstain from voting or vote against accepting the charge brought by Mr. Janot.
"For those who got thylakoids, it was much easier to abstain from snacking, and they therefore lost more body weight," she said.
She also spoke out against the Obama administration's decision to abstain from a vote on a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's settlements.
Still, rumors of prescription drug abuse surprise many who knew him – especially because Jehovah's Witnesses also abstain from drugs and limit alcohol use.
In El Salvador, where abortion is illegal in all cases, the government asked its women to abstain from pregnancy until at least 2018.
During Ramadan, Muslims abstain from eating any food, drinking any liquids, smoking cigarettes, and engaging in any sexual activity, from dawn to sunset.
Also slated to attend is the chairman of Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc, whose CEO decided to abstain from the October summit.
" San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York, the only official to abstain from the vote, said people have had enough of the "political fights.
Her suggestion to them has been to cut off the TV and radio and abstain from social media for the next few days.
The document, according to Haaretz, shows that Kerry and Rice said the U.S. would abstain from the vote if the resolution was balanced.
In 2628, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released his AIDS report with a plea to abstain from sex, practice monogamy, and use condoms.
After their babies arrive, they continue to abstain from certain foods while breast-feeding, and they certainly keep their children from eating them.
If his partner is a pregnant woman, the couple must use condoms for the duration of the pregnancy or abstain from sex altogether.
But those justices' efforts to wipe away the ruling were thwarted by their fellow conservative colleagues who chose to abstain from the vote.
He says it's a tribute to the many messages he's received from a new wave of ethically-minded fans who abstain from meat.
In 2010, Oesterlund, on behalf of his companies, signed an agreement with the Florida attorney general promising to abstain from deceptive marketing practices.
Brennan should consider taking a Hippocratic-like oath to "abstain from doing harm" to our national security when exercising his freedom of speech.
We know, instinctively, that "arriving" won't really give us the ability to abstain from life, it will only make us hungrier for more.
For example, men who have sex with men must abstain from sex with other men for more than a year before giving blood.
One very small study of 15 smokers found 12 (80 percent) managed to abstain from smoking for six months after a psilocybin treatment.
"We were aware of the calls to abstain from voting, but many fewer people than we expected are coming out," Ms. Henríquez said.
In other words: If states accept certain inviolable conditions, then they should be free to abstain from certain policies they regard as disadvantages.
But there is no reason to assume state actors or other motivated hackers would abstain from editing leaked files to better spread misinformation.
Prosecutors also argued that the federal appeals court should abstain from exercising jurisdiction over the case because there's an ongoing state criminal proceeding.
If you abstain from those activities, and take other precautions, like removing blankets from the bed, the risk of your baby's dying is .
Some drivers participating in the strikes asked passengers to abstain from calling rides on the companies' apps on the day of the protest.
When we first met him, he was recently homeless, and trying to abstain from the heroin he turned to to cope with his PTSD.
In that instance, there was a scandal involving Johnson and a slave mistress, leading Virginia's 23 electors to abstain from voting for Johnson entirely.
It expects about a dozen opposition lawmakers to oppose the motion or abstain from voting, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The CDC currently advises men who have experienced symptoms of Zika to use condoms or abstain from sex entirely for up to six months.
This is why I'm convinced that The Naked Test may just work for everyone — even those who abstain from sex until they get married.
The utterly stunned actors revisited their initial driving confessions with a completely different outlook and vowed to abstain from using their phones while driving.
The idea that someone's decision to abstain from sex implies any one set of character traits, meanwhile, is not only misguided, it is silencing.
In a statement released last week, the RCM clarified that midwives will continue to be able to abstain from abortion procedures on conscientious grounds.
While some people consciously abstain from voting, barriers in voting access threaten the rights of some of the most marginalized groups in American society.
A quote that really stuck with me was, 'Women would abstain from sex for three months if they could remove all their body hair.
That resolution was revoked with the nuclear deal and replaced by Security Council Resolution 2231, which "calls upon" Iran to abstain from such activity.
And this current period feels markedly different from prior moments when decisions to abstain from or delay marriage were intentional actions of feminist protest.
The dead and brutalized are also not necessarily holy relics for us to attach ourselves to that we should abstain from looking at thoughtfully.
For the US to be the only country in the world to abstain from a global climate agreement, then, is not a symbolic gesture.
Sprint's choice to abstain from mmWave was likely informed by its faith that the T-Mobile merger will go through, despite facing steep hurdles.
While pushing adolescents to abstain from cannabis and other substances isn't effective, Gruber noted, recommending that they wait could be a more useful approach.
The agency also advised consumers to abstain from eating romaine lettuce or packaged foods if a product's label does not indicate the growing region.
This probably goes without saying, but I&aposll say it anyway: You and your partner should also abstain from alcohol during these intimate talks.
Many opposition members are suspicious of Falcon, once a member of the ruling socialists, and are planning to abstain from voting on May 20.
The protest called for immigrants, whether naturalized citizens or undocumented, to stay home from work or school, close their businesses and abstain from shopping.
He argued for eliminating the time-honored professional exemptions that let members of 22 trades — including doctors, lawyers, podiatrists and embalmers — abstain from serving.
So, I would see all my friends in college using their cellphones to make last-minute plans and I had to abstain from them.
A judge handed down the sentence after learning that Hansen agreed to outpatient treatment and to abstain from drug and alcohol use for a year.
You've probably heard of Dry January, when (after a holiday season full of indulging) people abstain from alcohol for the first month of the year.
Meanwhile, National Amusements would agree to abstain from pushing for a merger between CBS and Viacom, the Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Even if you keep your computer virus-free and abstain from downloading dubious programs, it'll eventually stop booting up as quickly as it used to.
"The free exercise of religion includes the right to act or abstain from action in accordance with one's religious beliefs," Sessions writes in the memo.
It could find that the appellants lack standing to sue, or rule that Wisconsin's map was uniquely awful, but abstain from deciding a universal standard.
Due to the risk of sexual transmission, the CDC previously recommended that Ebola survivors use condoms or abstain from intercourse for three months after recovery.
A JUUL conveys that you're cool enough to want to smoke, but you're smart enough — or you think you're smart enough — to abstain from cigarettes.
The company also builds cluster munitions, banned by international treaty (although many nations abstain from this ban, including South Korea, the US, Russia, and China).
The LF is part of his cabinet, but plans to abstain from voting for the budget, saying it does not go far enough with reforms.
But there is no reason to assume state actors or other motivated hackers would abstain from editing leaked files to better meet a misinformation goal.
Men who have sex with men face a federally mandated ban on blood donation unless they abstain from same-sex sexual contact for one year.
Some church leaders have asked Catholics to, instead, abstain from eating meat on another day this week or to perform an additional act of charity.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has gone even further, recommending that sexually active women who are not using birth control abstain from alcohol.
He knew the protesting Democrats would be loth to abstain from voting or to shout him down: they would want the president's veto to stand.
The current guidance from health officials is that men who may have been exposed either abstain from sex or use a condom for six months.
Parents would still be allowed to abstain from vaccinating their children if they only take online courses or are home-schooled, according to the report.
Germany had planned to abstain from voting because ministries run by different parties in the ruling coalition remain at odds, a government spokesman told Reuters.
Of course, as Dr. Richard Friedman pointed out, it's easier to stop smoking cannabis or abstain from it when you're already naturally a little high.
Dry January asks you to abstain from drinking; Veganuary is just buying slightly different stuff than you usually would when you do the big shop.
Unlike with the Rescue Detox, Jolene wasn't instructed to abstain from eating, but was supposed to stop using marijuana for as long as possible beforehand.
Prominent opposition leaders have been banned from running and the Democratic Unity Roundtable, the main opposition organization, called on the electorate to abstain from voting.
They sleep in the day and move around at night, allowing them to skirt the expected struggle: to abstain from food and drink during daylight.
In his ruling on Monday, Marrero sided with the district attorney's office, finding that the federal court should abstain from exercising jurisdiction over Trump's lawsuit.
Today, we talk to our critic about his reckoning with abuse allegations against Michael Jackson — and his efforts to abstain from the pop star's music.
But several German bishops have dissented, insisting that Catholics who have divorced and remarried must abstain from sex if they wish to receive the eucharist.
Can you explain to yourself in a few sentences why you decided to quit drinking all those years ago, and continue to abstain from alcohol?
Nonetheless, the strong association between cannabis use and schizophrenia means that people with predisposing risk factors for schizophrenia should most certainly abstain from using cannabis.
Neither organization is asking people to abstain from blood donation if they have had sex with a person who recently traveled to a Zika-affected country.
He is also required to write an apology letter to the victim, pay a $500 fine and abstain from drugs and alcohol for the six months.
The site reports that de Lesseps — who recently checked into rehab — will have to abstain from drinking alcohol, and she'll have to submit to random testing.
Most recently, Louisiana's attorney general won a lawsuit on Tuesday that allows him to abstain from approving state contracts that protect LGBT rights in the workplace.
Stories like Albert's and Sanderson's are backed by several studies, which found that changing a person's social network can make it easier to abstain from drugs.
Historically, people would spend Fat Tuesday (and sometimes the weeks leading up to it) indulging in the foods (and behaviors) they would abstain from during Lent.
Most people who abstain from investing in the stock market do so because they believe it's too confusing and risky to ever pay off for them.
Volunteers would have been randomly assigned to either become moderate drinkers (defined as having one daily drink of their choice) or to completely abstain from alcohol.
For the next two Ramadans, she followed her dietitian's instructions to abstain from the fast, but by 2015 Altiraifi was almost back to a healthy weight.
That said, Clyburn has shown herself unwilling to abstain from votes just to delay the inevitable — like the passage of Pai's proposal to reverse net neutrality.
But some could still abstain from voting on the plan because of their dual role as lenders and equity holders, the second and third sources said.
He would abstain from the food at the Steak Fry in Iowa, or a low-country boil in South Carolina, because he's a long-practicing vegan.
Amahl Sharif Azwar, a gay Indonesian freelance writer who lives in Thailand, voted for Jokowi in 2014, but has decided to abstain from this presidential election.
But the more traditional approach is to fast and abstain from meat every Friday during Lent until Easter Sunday (which is on April 1 this year).
One of the sacred pillars of Islam, Ramadan calls on Muslims to abstain from all food, drink and even sipping water during the month's daylight hours.
The federally funded programs under TPPP include several that have proven successful in helping teens abstain from sex or use protection when they do have sex.
And as Watts points out using the most colorful language, nobody should feel the need to abstain from sex due to insecurities about their pregnant body.
However, he also tried to convince those people who are looking to abstain from voting, which pundits believe could be a major factor in Sunday's vote.
The CDC said Friday that men who reside in or have traveled to Zika-affected areas may want to abstain from sexual activity or use condoms.
The FDA merely changed it from a lifetime ban to a requirement that a potential donor abstain from sex with another male for an entire year.
Adherents abstain from celebrating holidays, voting, and accepting blood transfusions, and many believe Armageddon will one day come and destroy all "worldly" people, or non-Witnesses.
West's views on sexual relationships are now much more conservative — he said he even asked people working on his new album to abstain from premarital sex.
The Obama administration opted to abstain from the vote instead of vetoing it, breaking with longtime U.S. protocol of intervening to block U.N. reproaches toward Israel.
Others are repelled enough by the presidential choices of both major political parties that they may abstain from voting, a dangerous development for any mature democracy.
The CDC's guidelines urge men who "reside in or have traveled to an area of active Zika virus transmission" to use condoms or abstain from sex.
From before sunrise to sunset, Muslims abstain from food and drink, sexual relations, and pretty much all worldly desires, instead focusing on spirituality and self-betterment.
However, a few of us think that that is also a way for the government to abstain from the responsibility of taking care of the kids.
President-elect Trump then went even further: He openly criticized the Obama administration's plans to abstain from a UN resolution on settlements, and demanded a veto.
French labor unions were expected to have a big influence, and the labor union representative on Renault's board indicated it, too, would abstain from the vote.
Bombs blow up bridges or factories, killing jobs, causing the currency to crumble and prices to soar, and forcing families to abstain from meat, then vegetables.
The law encourages directors to disclose potential conflicts of interest and abstain from voting on matters that involve them, and these rules generally apply to condos.
While instructing everyone to abstain from alcohol and to use discretion on social media, he also made a comment that the players interpreted as more targeted.
Addicts have a moral and spiritual defect, they are told; they must abstain from alcohol and drugs and surrender to a higher power to escape substance abuse.
If you've resolved to abstain from alcohol—for the month, the year, or indefinitely—you may find yourself more tempted than usual to reach for a drink.
The goal is not so much to abstain from alcohol in the long run, but to build a healthier relationship with booze that informs your everyday life.
To avoid any conflict of interest, the company said in January it was calling a meeting for shareholders, and the building's current owners would abstain from voting.
"President asked the TNA to abstain from voting, but we said the abstention would lead to legitimising an unconstitutional move," M.A. Sumanthiran, a TNA spokesman, told Reuters.
Not only are they expected to avoid eating and drinking from sunrise to sundown, but people must abstain from sex, gossip, swearing, and other habits deemed immoral.
The Natural Cycles app uses information about your body temperature and periods to predict when you need to abstain from sex or use protection to avoid pregnancy.
What is clear is that by the 13th century, it was customary for Christians to abstain from eating eggs during Lent — the 40-day pre-Easter season.
During Ramadan, followers of Islam – Muslims – do not eat or drink (not even water) from sunrise to sunset, and try to abstain from impure thoughts or behavior.
Ross says an intervention usually takes several days, and he asks the person in the MLM to abstain from contacting anyone they work with during that time.
"It's a decision that we consider wrong and dangerous," the president of Rome's Jewish community said of the decision to abstain from voting on the commission's formation.
Fox Business Network announced Monday that Paul didn't qualify for the main stage during Thursday's debate, and he has said he will abstain from the undercard bout.
This policy, which is in effect today, leaves MSM with three choices: do not donate, lie about their sexual history, or abstain from sex for twelve months.
They will need his supporters in the fall, while also attracting independents and Republicans who say they will abstain from voting for either major party's presidential nominee.
Canada, Mexico and Australia chose to abstain from the vote, while the U.S., Israel, Togo, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Marshall Islands, Guatemala and Honduras voted against the resolution.
But the start on Thursday of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims abstain from eating and drinking during daylight hours, could limit the scale of demonstrations.
Today, the rule is as follows: gay and bisexual men can give blood, but only if they abstain from sexual contact with other men for 12 months.
Gluten sensitivity (the catchall disorder that leads many Americans to abstain from gluten) is not well defined, and most people who self-diagnose don't meet the criteria.
Last year, when St. Patrick's Day fell on a Lenten Friday, when Catholics are asked to abstain from eating meat, Cardinal Dolan was a voice of leniency.
"The United States urges China to abstain from coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan," she wrote.
Some pro-independence activists, however, said they might call on their supporters to abstain from voting in the coming election — so its credibility could also be undermined.
Business Insider's Mary Hanbury reported that the Filet-O-Fish is a massive hit during Lent, when many Catholics fast and abstain from eating meat on Fridays.
A third magistrate, Claire Stafrace Zammit, rejected calls by the defense for her also to abstain from the case because Caruana Galizia had once praised her husband.
McManus also suggested that parents and teachers speak with teens to recommend that they abstain from sex or use protection and get tested regularly for HIV/STDs.
" The agency also recommended, "If you have a male partner who goes to the Olympics, either use condoms or abstain from sex for the duration of your pregnancy.
Other scenarios the researchers considered include one in which most people abstain from eating red meat and poultry and another in which most people assume a vegan diet.
The basic concept, Rockey explained, is that pregnant women and others who choose to abstain from alcohol might still enjoy the taste and social ritual of wine-drinking.
She felt empowered by her self-control, but within a week, Altiraifi's dietician told her she would end up severely underweight if she continued to abstain from food.
"He's a very discreet man and he'll go without making a noise," said one, adding that Desmarest may attend Thursday's meeting but abstain from voting on Bollore's nomination.
Ginsberg says that whether a delegate can abstain from his or her vote on a first ballot is likely to come down to a ruling by the chair.
Additionally, prior to the book's release, Trump said she would abstain from overt promotion due to ethics guidelines in her new role as special adviser to her father.
President Obama and Netanyahu have had a rocky relationship, and Obama's decision to abstain from the vote has been seen as a final conflict after years of clashes.
Two people familiar with the situation told Reuters this week that Bayer's largest shareholder, BlackRock, plans to either abstain from or vote against ratifying the management board's actions.
Of course ... TONS of fighters abstain from shagging before big bouts -- 'cause they believe using up the testosterone in the bedroom leads to poor performance in the ring.
Traders will resume selling meat after the end on Wednesday of the nine-day Hindu festival of Navratra, during which participants fast and abstain from meat, Qureshi said.
President Trump applauded China for its decision Wednesday  to abstain from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning last week's chemical attack on civilians in Syria.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry continues to abstain from striking those areas in Syria where "the moderate opposition" respects the ceasefire agreement, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.
The people of Rabwah, in Punjab province, are predominantly Ahmadi Muslims, and abstain from elections due to what they say are discriminatory laws that target their minority sect.
Additionally, pregnant women whose partners have traveled to or live in endemic Zika areas should abstain from sex, or have protected sex through the duration of their pregnancy.
The CDC took the opportunity to remind folks that men who have traveled to an area of active Zika virus should abstain from having sex with pregnant partners.
Researchers also lacked data on diet and exercise, which can influence the risk of breast malignancies, and they didn't know why some women chose to abstain from drinking.
"Regardless of healthy or unhealthy drinking habits, smokers should expect to confront the common cold more easily and with more frequency than those who abstain from nicotine consumption."
I've been a vegetarian for so long now, that I still have, if not moral reasons to abstain from eating animals, I still have emotional reasons, sentimental reasons.
MoMA encourages visitors to abstain from technology during Quiet Mornings, and the confluence of distraction-free art appreciation and early morning zen is a great mid-week refresher.
Another strategy some women undertook in navigating their new drug-free sex lives was to take up with a man with a similar history and abstain from sex.
Flynn also lied about a previous contact with the ambassador, in which he'd urged Russia to abstain from a United Nations Security Council vote on Israeli settlement policy.
The prime example is Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who rhapsodizes about the benefits of intermittent fasting, where you abstain from food for hours or days at a time.
But I chose to abstain from grumpiness not just because of the previous month's accumulation but for the fact that I am too grumpy in general these days.
But observers will be looking to see how many delegates abstain from voting as an indication of the reservations the move has encountered even within the political establishment.
But if you abstain from alcohol, or you prefer a beer or cocktail to wine, there's not enough uncontested evidence to warrant a change in your drink order.
Reinke was also ordered to abstain from alcohol during a five-year probation period, and to attend addiction treatment, which Reinke reportedly said he was already planning on doing.
The Swedish app, Natural Cycles, uses body temperature to determine when a woman is most fertile so she can decide whether to use protection, or to abstain from sex.
Black Friday and the subsequent post-Thanksgiving shopping events have become synonymous with overconsumption, leading many people to abstain from the consumerist extravaganza to promote sustainability and workers rights.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Jerusalem buzzes with renewed energy in the days before the start of Ramadan, Islam's holy month, when the faithful abstain from eating and drinking during daylight hours.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration intended to abstain from a U.N. Security Council vote on a draft resolution critical of Israel settlement-building, Western officials told Reuters on Thursday.
The vegans also abstain from milk and eggs because there, too, they see a lot of exploitation, death and suffering (the question of honey remains a point of contention).
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking pregnant women to abstain from sex if their partner has recently visited an area where Zika is currently active.
Throughout the girls' trip to Solvang, California, Kent had made good on her promise to abstain from alcohol, diligently sipping water while her friends got sloshed at wine tastings.
After being forced to abstain from tobacco and cell phones for those weeks in Iran, at least he could chain-smoke cigarettes and make calls to his family again.
A government official told The Hill on Saturday that the Justice Department's stance regarding the new emails was to abstain from taking any actions that could impact the election.
The agency also recommends that men who are at risk for Zika should wear condoms during sex if their partners are pregnant — or abstain from sex during the pregnancy.
The Obama administration's decision last year to abstain from the U.N. vote instead of opposing it was seen as a signal of warming relations between the Cold War foes.
If the proposed ban is reopened for a vote this week, the United States should throw its weight behind this proposal or — at the very least — abstain from voting.
Abbas said the plan is to offer deer and other expensive cuisine in coming days during Ramadan, when practicing Muslims abstain from eating, drinking and smoking during daylight hours.
After Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on ABC's "This Week" that the president "probably" has the power to pardon himself, McCarthy said that Trump should abstain from doing so.
None of this is simple or straightforward; in fact, many people now find the language used in these measures so confusing that they abstain from voting on them entirely.
During this period the female beetle releases the pheromone that makes the male abstain from copulating with her, allowing both to spend their time caring for the developing larvae.
The situation was exacerbated by power outages citywide and ongoing fasting for the holy month of Ramadan, during which many Muslims abstain from eating and drinking during daylight hours.
The only way they can form a government is if either Mr. Rajoy's Popular Party or the left-wing Podemos party agrees to abstain from the vote on Wednesday.
After he approached her lectern with a written pledge to abstain from spending so-called soft money in the campaign, her aides cast his move as inappropriate, even bullying.
More from Tonic: Some have also suggested that you should abstain from caffeine in order to enjoy a better effect on your performance when you consume it for exercise.
"It's a very strange feeling," he said of a joint decision to abstain from shaking hands with the visiting Irish Taoiseach, in town for annual St. Patrick's Day diplomacy.
It is fair to ask whether states should have the power to abstain from federal law enforcement programs that they view as immoral or adverse to their local interests.
This mindset is the antithesis of meaningful change, which is also shared by people such as those that abstain from exercising their right as an American citizen to vote.
Examples includes needle exchange for intravenous drug users; Truvada for people who cannot abstain from high-risk sex; methadone or suboxone for opiate abusers; and e-cigarettes for smokers.
For TaTy's 16th birthday, she asked for a "purity ring," a silver ring symbolizing a pledge that she will abstain from sex before marriage, or until she is ready.
The proposed rule also subverts constitutional principles of equality and non-discrimination, since women and LGBTQ persons will be disproportionately impacted when medical workers abstain from delivering health care.
There are many reasons to abstain from voting for Mr. Trump if he is nominated, starting with the fact that he would be the most unqualified president in American history.
Vanity Fair also points out that celebs are being asked to respect the new prohibition and abstain from surreptitiously taking a selfie, either of themselves, each other, or with fans.
These programs were explicitly prohibited in the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet Order in 2015, which also required internet service providers to abstain from blocking or throttling consumer internet service.
Spain's socialists are now being pressured to abstain from such an "investiture vote" in order to allow Rajoy to become prime minister and avoid the need for yet another election.
The WHO said last week that people returning from Zika-infected areas should follow safe sex practices or abstain from sex for at least eight weeks rather than just four.
Viljoen and May, however, believe women trying to become pregnant or who are pregnant should abstain from alcohol -- a view supported by the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
China's insistence that Kim abstain from nuclear escalation or risk food and energy supplies is one of the few tools the world possesses to contain North Korea, according to strategists.
We can't abstain from them, because they exist in the same forums we all use to work and interact, that for many of us are essential to what we do.
MOSCOW, March 1 (Reuters) - Russia's Defence Ministry continues to abstain from striking those areas in Syria where "the moderate opposition" respects the ceasefire agreement, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.
"You can't abstain from technology altogether, but this provides a structure to limit or compartmentalize in a way that allows your brain to reset a bit," Sepah told Business Insider.
Knowing the importance the beer mile niche has to his flat track competitive career, Bellemore, hilariously, also needs to keep up his drinking ability—something many runners abstain from altogether.
Animal protein is so fundamental to the Parsi diet that even during the holy month of Bahman, when Zoroastrians are supposed to abstain from meat, they're permitted fish and eggs.
This year, many companies are encouraging employees to abstain from handshakes and hugs while in the office in order to prevent the spread of diseases like the coronavirus and flu.
"She told me she shared the same heart and convictions as me and she wanted to abstain from sex before marriage," Parker said during an appearance on Reality Steve's podcast.
The judge delved into Trump's presidential immunity argument, in case the 2nd Circuit disagreed with his decision to abstain from exercising his jurisdiction over the case in the first place.
The tendency of voters to defect from the opposition, and even worse, to abstain from politics — so strong in eras of rising populism — does not seem to exist in America.
Whether or not Gabbard's present served a higher purpose in her mind (or anyone's), her choice to abstain from Trump's impeachment certainly got her noticed – a skill she's honed well.
Nissan recently said it would abstain from voting on the FCA-Renault merger, although both FCA and Renault later blamed the failure of that deal squarely on the French government.
The president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Dinardo of Galveston-Houston, Texas, expressed disappointment when revealing the call from on-high that they abstain from doing anything.
The World Health Organization has doubled the time it recommends that people practice safe sex, or abstain from sex altogether, after returning from areas where the Zika virus is found.
The "Fresh Eyes" singer, 33, popped by the PEOPLE Now studio, where he discussed the reaction surrounding his decision to abstain from sex until after he married wife Aijia in 2012.
Although there are many transgender people who abstain from gender affirmation surgery for a variety of reasons, the findings indicate that surgery can help people who want that option, Hess added.
They are also advising that men and women who have traveled to Zika outbreak areas use condoms or abstain from sex for six months to prevent sexual transmission of the virus.
El Salvador's advice that women should abstain from pregnancy for two years to avoid having children born with microcephaly, a rare condition in which babies have unusually small heads, is shocking.
The Bank of Japan is likely to abstain from expanding stimulus next week, and a Reuters poll showed the Bank of England is not expected to ease policy until early 2017.
Spain's political drama after two inconclusive elections ended today (October 23) as the Socialist Party (PSOE) agreed to abstain from toppling the right-wing minority Partido Popular (PP) in parliamentary voting.
The CDC updated its guidance for all sexually active individuals to use condoms or abstain from sex with a partner who has lived in or traveled to a Zika-affected area.
The move from the Morning News was especially poignant, considering that in 1964, the paper chose to abstain from endorsing either Republican Barry Goldwater or the Democratic incumbent, President Lyndon Johnson.
For International Women's Day, the Women's March organizers called A Day Without A Woman, a demonstration where those who identify as female would abstain from contributing to the socio-economy system.
Earlier Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry defended the Obama administration's decision to abstain from voting on a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity in areas Palestinians seek for a state.
A government official who requested anonymity to discuss the matter told The Hill that the Justice Department's stance was to abstain from taking any actions that could impact the presidential race.
"I can only urge everybody to abstain from this kind of rhetoric and focus on what people need - and people need jobs, they need income, they need social guarantees," Hahn said.
China-Arab ties date back to the early 1960s, during which the mainland has traditionally focused on energy, commerce and trade ties with the region, choosing to abstain from geopolitical tensions.
Electors of good conscience should exercise their Constitutional right to elect the best person for the job of President or simply abstain from voting for either of the major party candidates.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is said to eat only one meal a day during the week and to abstain from eating almost all weekend, only eating a meal on Sunday evening.
But Babis said on Wednesday he had no deal in place and would talk to all parties to either back the cabinet or abstain from the vote to help it win.
In other words, about 29 percent of the total cases (or 42 percent of those for whom researchers had vaccine histories) had no medical reason to abstain from getting their shots.
Changing laws and supply chains in this way is a much more realistic solution to the problems Mr. Berlanga points out than persuading millions of Americans to abstain from using drugs.
"In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the underserved prize that has been awarded to me," he wrote.
With this argument in mind, opposition factions urged supporters to abstain from voting, arguing that the election was a sham and that participation would only validate Mr. Maduro's authoritarian political program.
The Russians allegedly masqueraded as African-American and American Muslim activists to urge minority voters to abstain from voting in the 2016 election or to vote for a third-party candidate.
The best way to avoid it is for a woman to abstain from drinking the moment she becomes pregnant (even if she doesn't know it yet) until after she gives birth.
Many opposition supporters distrust the two candidates and plan to abstain from voting, but having two rival opposition candidates will split the votes of those who do go to the polls.
For Lent, when Catholics abstain from eating meat on Fridays, and for our perennial pescatarians, I ate all the fast-food fish sandwiches available to filter out the very worst ones.
President Obama authorized the U.S. to abstain from voting on the measure, drawing backlash over the decision to break from the longstanding U.S. policy of shielding Israel from U.N. reproaches. Sen.
CHRIS RASMUSSEN Highland Park, N.J. To the Editor: Many voters abhor the Republican candidate and can't stand Hillary Clinton, so they proudly announce their intention to abstain from voting for either.
She wrote that both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend counseling moms to abstain from all cannabis products if they wish to breastfeed.
In October, she vowed to abstain from high-dollar fundraisers if she becomes the Democratic nominee, extending to the general election her refusal to hold such events during the primary season.
Citing ICE's human rights abuses, nearly 600 Google employees in August publicly petitioned for the company to abstain from bidding on a cloud computing contract that would support ICE and CBP.
Labor force participation has declined precipitously during the president's tenure, falling from 65.7 percent in January 2009 to 62.6 percent last month, suggesting that individuals increasingly abstain from the labor market.
On Thursday, the World Health Organization advised the sexual partners of pregnant women to use condoms or abstain from sex if they live in Zika-affected areas or are returning from them.
For global policymakers, the verbal volleys from Washington sharpen the focus on the Group of 20 leading nations' commitment to "abstain from competitive devaluations and not set exchange targets for competitive reasons".
Trump has criticized recent President Barack Obama decisions related to to Israel — most recently the administration's decision to abstain from a United Nations resolution labeling Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal.
Phillips further argues the state violated his First Amendment right to free speech, which allows him to abstain from speech, such as refusing to make a pro-transgender expression in a cake.
Along those same lines, Mexico's soccer team announced in 153 that its players were asked to abstain from sex during the World Cup in Brazil in order to maximize their athletic performance.
Opposition leaders said the lifeless voting centers were evidence that Venezuelans heeded their call to abstain from voting in an election they contended was certain to be rigged in Maduro&aposs favor.
The CDC recommends that men who've been diagnosed with Zika, or have had symptoms of the virus, to use condoms or abstain from sex for at least six months after symptoms begin.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The month of Ramadan is usually associated with fasting, as Muslims around the world abstain from eating from dawn to dusk to focus on their spiritual self-discipline.
Judge Estes said Mr. Becker must abstain from drugs and alcohol, submit to an evaluation for sex offender treatment and stay away from the victims, both of whom were 18, they showed.
And she and her husband would abstain from sexual intercourse in the weeks right before and after the embryo transfer, to make sure she was having Taroli and Li's baby -- not hers.
Maher was joined on his show Friday night by Dr. Jay N. Gordon, a pediatrician based in Santa Monica, California, whose patients choose to abstain from vaccinations more than half the time.
The women bumped heads, especially after Madison bravely defended her decision to request Peter to abstain from sleeping with the other women, ultimately leaving Barbara with a bad taste in her mouth.
Fewer than 1 percent of people in the United States have a wheat allergy, and fewer than 1 percent have celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder that requires sufferers to abstain from gluten.
Now, Ahmed worries that regular Muslims will pay the price — and last week, he called for his community to abstain from going to Friday prayers at their mosques for the time being.
Paired voting, which is already permitted under House rules, allows for informal agreements between members of opposite parties to both abstain from a given vote and effectively cancel out each other's absences.
She mentioned the concept of the "invisible corset": how even if women abstain from wearing physically binding clothing, they are still urged to structure their bodies through plastic surgery, diets and exercise.
Catalonia's largest separatist party, Esquerra Republica de Catalunya (ERC), on Thursday agreed to abstain from voting after Sanchez agreed to hold a dialogue over the future of Catalonia if he is confirmed.
With all of the uproar about political meddling during the 2016 election season, if our policymakers find the practice so abhorrent, perhaps they would be well advised to abstain from it themselves.
On Thursday, the World Health Organization also advised the sexual partners of pregnant women to use condoms or abstain from sex if they live in Zika-affected areas or are returning from them.
Following their agreement, Kent organized a girls' trip to Solvang, California, where she made good on her promise to abstain from alcohol, diligently sipping water while her friends got sloshed at wine tastings.
Researchers found that those who say that they would abstain from cheating the most were more religious people who identify as women and who have been married for a short amount of time.
BlackRock, which latest filings show owns 7.2 percent of Bayer's voting rights, plans to either abstain from or vote against ratifying the management board's actions during the year under review, the sources said.
In Beijing, efforts to ease smog included neighborhood postings asking residents not to light fireworks, fewer approvals for firework stalls and officials being warned to lead by example and abstain from the pyrotechnics.
If you're suffering from a vaginal infection, whether it's serious or not to warrant a doctor's visit, the first question on your mind might be whether or not you should abstain from sex.
While his choice to abstain from sex has been a big part of this season, others from Bachelor Nation have called bullshit on his virginity — most recently the call came from Robby Hayes.
While the researchers indicate that pregnant women should abstain from marijuana usage, they also acknowledge that most study subjects also smoked cigarettes and consumed alcohol, which makes isolating the effects of marijuana impossible.
The pope confirmed Tuesday via his spokesperson that Pell has been forbidden from contact with minors until his appeals have concluded, adding that he has also been obliged to abstain from public ministry.
This time, the F.C.C. and Justice Department asked Charter to agree to abstain from negotiations with programmers that would keep shows and movies off competing streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
The Republicans are no doubt fine with this state of affairs, because with only three sitting commissioners at the S.E.C., the Republican representative can just abstain from voting, leaving the agency in stasis.
Pregnant women and their male and female partners who live in the area should prevent mosquito bites and use proper sexual protection for the length of the pregnancy, or abstain from sex altogether.
In such cases, couples should use condoms or abstain from sex for at least two months after the woman has either shown symptoms of an infection or possibly been exposed to the virus.
The agency also said women should use a condom or abstain from sex for at least six months if their partner may have been exposed to the virus — also up from eight weeks.
And even one of Mr. Turnbull's own party members, Dean Smith, a West Australian Liberal senator, said he would abstain from voting for the plebiscite, or cross the floor and vote against it.
One laborer in the Kampong Thom village, who described himself as non-partisan and planned to abstain from voting, said the village chief was refusing to sign his application for a micro-loan.
While the researchers indicate that pregnant women should abstain from marijuana usage, they also acknowledge that most study subjects also smoked cigarettes and consumed alcohol, which makes isolating the effects of marijuana impossible.
The current rules in place for blood donations to the Red Cross dictate that men who have sex with other men abstain from sexual contact for 22020 months before donating, according to NBC.
The Senate, where Democrats and Republicans have the same number of seats, is expected to vote before the end of the month; one Democrat has already indicated that she will abstain from voting.
The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Justice Antonin Scalia, made clear that the sheriffs, and states generally, have a right to abstain from federal law enforcement schemes with which they disagreed.
Abstinence-only programs fail to accomplish their stated purpose Setting aside other serious concerns, these programs are ineffective at their primary goal of getting young people to abstain from sex prior to marriage.
Participating in Dry January, the month-long commitment to abstain from drinking alcohol that sprung up in the U.K. in 2014 and has since made its way overseas, is one of the classics.
But I was looking at a study from China that showed that if you abstain from masturbating for a week your blood serum testosterone levels will go up if you have a penis.
Moon came under fire earlier this year for revelations in a former foreign minister's memoir that he had backed a motion to abstain from a United Nations vote against North Korea's human rights record.
They can eat before sunrise and break their fast after dusk each day, and besides abstinence from food and water, Muslims are asked to abstain from sexual intercourse as well, the Mosque Foundation says.
The study was intended to have about 8,000 participants, some of whom will be assigned to have a drink of their choice every day and others will be asked to abstain from drinking completely.
The holy month of fasting—when devout Muslims abstain from food, drink and sex in daylight hours—was a physical trial for the first Muslims living in the sweltering Arabian peninsula 1,400 years ago.
The study, in part, provides a small amount of physiological evidence which supports a pretty traditional addiction narrative: When an addict decides to get sober, they must completely abstain from substances to avoid relapse.
"Instead of turning to marijuana, he says, "for anyone who is in true recovery, it's about surrounding yourself with other people who abstain from drugs and alcohol in order to have a support system.
For that reason, the CDC had recommended that men who had been infected abstain from unprotected sexual contact for at least six months with a partner who is pregnant or hoping to become pregnant.
As at the start of Ramadan, during which believers abstain from eating and drinking during daylight hours, Eid-al-Fitr depends on the sighting of the moon and its celebration varies in different countries.
KINGSTON (Reuters) - Usain Bolt has said he was shocked by the decision of Jamaica's athletics federation to abstain from an IAAF vote on a sweeping reform package at the governing body of world athletics.
Opponents of the peace process, which include right-wing ex-president Alvaro Uribe, may encourage their supporters to abstain from voting in the hope a referendum would not meet quorum and be declared invalid.
It was a category that was created in 6900 that allowed judges to abstain from pronouncing a sentence of death on any capital convict whom they considered to be a fit subject for pardon.
She added that Meijer recognizes the rights of pharmacists to abstain from filling a prescription, but that they are required to transfer the prescription to another pharmacy or have another Meijer pharmacist fill it.
Moon came under fire earlier last year for revelations in a former foreign minister's memoir that he had backed a motion to abstain from a United Nations vote against North Korea's human rights record.
Finan recounts the story of Handsome Lake, a member of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), whose visions of a spirit messenger telling him to abstain from alcohol, kicked off a religious sobriety movement in 1799.
Followers of the Quiverfull movement, including the Duggar family and their TV friends the Bates, famously abstain from contraception in order to have as many children as is biologically possible—their quivers are full.
"We ask President Morales to abstain from signing that agreement because we do not have many resources for our own people, much less can we keep foreigners here and give them attention," she wrote.
The conditions included a strict curfew, a promise that she continue mental health treatment and abstain from alcohol and a pledge that she stay out of hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities.
It is fair to say, as prosecutors and several briefs filed in the case do, that people who suffer from substance use disorders are not wholly unable to choose to abstain from drug use.
"We call on North Korea to abstain from any gesture that would risk further increasing regional tensions and to fully and immediately implement United Nations Security Council resolutions," the ministry said in a statement.
When he finally did, it was under conditional release: He had to agree to take his medication, attend outpatient treatment, abstain from drugs and avoid altercations with the law for the next five years.
"When those companies abstain from making comments about political developments, customers may find it hypocritical, and they will actually be more upset with the company than if it had taken a stand," Korschun said.
First, as Matt Glassman notes in his explanation of the speaker voting process, Pelosi can win a majority on the floor if some of her opponents choose to vote "present" or abstain from voting altogether.
That might sound fine, but it signifies that some doctors are choosing to abstain from opioids completely, even in cases where they might be the best option, rather than prescribe them responsibly, the authors said.
But Babis reiterated in the Pravo interview that there was no deal in place and he would talk to all parties to either back the cabinet or abstain from the vote to help ANO win.
Lawmakers tell CNN that Comey won't be constrained in recounting his conversations with Trump, but a Senate intelligence committee source also said that Comey is expected to abstain from discussing the ongoing federal Russia investigation.
Instead, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns women of reproducing age to abstain from alcohol entirely, lest having a glass of wine carry the risk of sexually transmitted disease or unintended pregnancy.
But the campaign was not asking individual people to abstain from using the emoji; it aimed at persuading Apple to prevent, in one swoop, anyone from sending or receiving that cartoon image of a handgun.
And while she's glad-handing this bunch, she's always keeping one eye on Tom James, her presumptive vice president who's also working the room, trying to get those backing Selina to abstain from the vote.
For now, Bryson and Twardowski say that if you can, try to abstain from smoking or eating edibles a month before your procedure— THC sticks around in the body for about 25 days after using.
Before you decide to abstain from going down altogether, it's good to know that these potential outcomes are not inevitable; with proper testing, treatment, action, and education, they can be, for the most part, avoided.
Currently, Catholics who divorce and then remarry in civil ceremonies cannot receive communion unless they abstain from sex with their new partner, since their first marriage is still valid in the eyes of the Church.
The president-elect, who promised to abstain from the lavish lifestyle of Mexico's political elite — to the point of saying he would sell the presidential plane and fly commercial — has even stumbled over image issues.
Current guidance instructs Americans across the country to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people; work or attend school from home whenever possible; and abstain from eating or drinking at bars, restaurants and food courts.
To say Trump and the spy chiefs who criticize him are morally equivalent is to abstain from one of the crucial questions convulsing the very stressed American political system: Who will control the secret agencies?
In a statement on Monday, Nissan's chief executive, Hiroto Saikawa, said he had received a letter from Renault saying that the French company intended to abstain from a shareholder vote to adopt the governance overhaul.
The investigators aim to recruit 7,800 men and women at 16 sites around the world, instructing half to abstain from alcohol and half to have a single serving of alcohol of their choice every day.
"Iran must abstain from crossing an especially worrying new phase of new measures that could contribute to an escalation in tensions," French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Agnès von der Muhll told reporters in a daily briefing.
Witnesses' conscientious objection is based on a belief "that Christians should abstain from war because they have no right to take human life," informed by pacifist Bible passages and the example of early Christian communities.
Airbus said Hoke would not attend the Saudi investment conference given a new guideline ordering executives to abstain from high profile engagements there, but the company would not break off contact with the Gulf kingdom.
A group of Republican delegates, led by Colorado delegate Kendal Unruh, began organizing last week to change the convention rules so bound delegates could abstain from voting for Trump by citing a moral objection to him.
Because the virus can be sexually transmitted, the C.D.C. is recommending that pregnant women abstain from sex or use condoms if their male partner has traveled to or lives in an area with active Zika transmission.
"If the second round is between Fillon and Le Pen then potentially many voters will abstain from voting for Fillon but I still don't think Le Pen will get very close to the presidency," he said.
WHO recommends pregnant women avoid travel to areas with ongoing Zika outbreaks and that if their partners travel to affected countries, they should practice safe sex or abstain from sex for the duration of their pregnancy.
Those who celebrate host and attend two seders (a traditional meal with extended readings, prayers and rituals) on the first two nights, and abstain from eating leavened bread and grain-based products for the entire week.
The CDC has recommended that men who have been in areas with a Zika outbreak abstain from sex for eight weeks to six months after returning, but as of now makes no similar recommendations to women.
In a sense, Neal's error demonstrates how easy it is to rob a bank—slip the teller a note, try to abstain from leaving any traces of identifying information, and get the hell out of there.
Sexually active women who are not on birth control should abstain from alcohol to avoid the risk of giving birth to babies with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended.
He's super into health and fitness Cook has been vocal about his decision to abstain from alcohol and drugs throughout his life, and recently, he's taken his appreciation for a healthy lifestyle to the next level.
Today marks the first day of Lent, during which time Christians (mostly Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, and Presbyterians) will fast, abstain from meat on Fridays, or simply do their best to refuse their earthly pleasure of choice.
The study found that UK residents who tried to abstain from alcohol for the month of January in 2018—as part of a public health campaign called "Dry January"—continued to drink less eight months later.
TeenSafe requires that teenagers abstain from using two-factor authentication so parents can keep an eye on their activity, making those teenagers even more vulnerable to malicious actors now that their personal information has been exposed.
Instead of making unilateral threats against Tehran and Pyongyang, the United States should try to enlist Russia's help in pressuring Iran and North Korea to abstain from advanced missile development and return to the negotiating table.
And the group has fiercely attacked the Democratic Party, urging black voters to abstain from voting for the next Democratic presidential nominee unless he or she produces a specific economic plan for the nation's ADOS population.
"We call on the Iraqi people to stage a white revolution, everybody must cast his ballot, nobody should abstain from voting, it is the last chance for change," Sadr said in a televised speech in April.
Like Ethos, Glass Lewis suggested shareholders abstain from approving the actions of the bank's board and top management in 2018, especially in light of a French tax case that has prompted UBS to boost litigation provisions.
Instead, he has been calling on the main opposition Socialist Party to abstain from voting and to recognize his right to govern because his party won the most votes in the last inconclusive election, in June.
Kanye also made headlines recently when he casually mentioned that he'd asked those working on his upcoming album "Jesus Is King" — which still hasn't been released yet, despite months of speculation — to abstain from premarital sex.
All men and women who travel to places where Zika is spreading are now told either to abstain from sex for at least eight weeks or to use barrier protection — if they have symptoms or not.
The CDC recommends that all pregnant women who have a sex partner who has traveled to or resides in an area with Zika use protective measures such as condoms or abstain from sex during the pregnancy.
So, several decades into the movement, this clash developed between the older school of temperance and the so-called Tea-Totalers, who began to push a pledge getting people to abstain from any alcohol at all.
A few hours before Saturday's parliamentary vote, Mr. Sánchez announced that he was resigning from Parliament, in order not to defy the instructions of his party's caretaker leaders, who asked all Socialists to abstain from voting.
If we abstain from laying out a rational framework for discussing differences among populations, we risk losing the trust of the public and we actively contribute to the distrust of expertise that is now so prevalent.
In a letter sent to Nissan's board on Saturday, Renault said it would abstain from a vote on the overhaul — and because the French company owns 43 percent of its counterpart, the plan was effectively doomed.
On Sunday, the country's leading expert on infectious diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said regional lockdowns could become necessary and recommended that those at greatest risk — older adults and people with underlying health conditions — abstain from travel.
The heat spiked on May 18, just days after the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan — during which all able-bodied Muslims are required to abstain from food and water from sunrise to sunset.
The country's media regulator warned local news channels to abstain from airing statements "by political leadership containing defamatory and derogatory content targeting various state institutions specifically judiciary and armed forces", the regulator said in a statement.
But scientists, coaches and athletes also have thought that to gain any performance boost from taking caffeine before an event, an athlete had to abstain from the stuff for days or weeks before a big event.
It recommends, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that men who have traveled to or lived in an area with active virus transmission abstain from sex or use condoms throughout their partner's pregnancy.
In a statement, GRECO said a new feature of the criminal legislation allowing prosecutors to abstain from prosecuting misdemeanors punishable with up to a three-year imprisonment might weaken the fight against corruption and money laundering.
Secretary of State John Kerry harshly rebuked Israel in December while vigorously defending a United States decision to abstain from a United Nations vote condemning Israel on the settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Since Zika can be sexually transmitted, they also suggest people practice safe sex with condoms or even abstain from sex, particularly if one's partner is pregnant, and recommend specific precautions for those thinking of becoming pregnant soon.
If a person or their sexual partner travels to an area where Zika is circulating, they should abstain from sex or carefully use safe sex measures for six months after returning, according to the World Health Organization.
In the four months that have passed, Blair said that she has forgiven herself, but she continues to abstain from drinking and keeps the incident at the forefront of her mind as a reminder to resist drinking.
Though Forest officials rarely find the culprits who vandalize the rock walls, Hudgens's celebrity status (as well as her millennial inability to abstain from posting every moment of her life) was a huge reason she was caught.
The CDC urges doctors to stress that male or female partners in an area with Zika reduce their risk of sexual transmission by using condoms, and says that they should abstain from unprotected sex throughout a pregnancy.
The government agency recommended Tuesday that women of childbearing age who are not using contraception should abstain from drinking because they might become pregnant and put a hypothetical baby at risk of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs).
The Obama administration had been weighing whether to support the UN measure or abstain from voting, which would have been a break from the US's traditional practice of shielding Israel at the UN and other international organizations.
Ramadan, Islam's holy month during which believers abstain from eating and drinking during daylight hours, is set to start in May this year and often sees Egyptian families stock up on various food items and other goods.
Regarding elections interference, Russia, as indeed any other country, would be wise to abstain from sneaking into other nations' political bedrooms — not because gentlemen don't do this, but because there is usually no payoff, only a pushback.
The CDC announced earlier this month that men who have traveled to countries with Zika cases and are the partners of pregnant women should use condoms or abstain from sex for the duration of their partners' pregnancies.
Pregnant women who live where the disease is present or whose partners have been to a Zika zone should have their partners use condoms or abstain from sex for the duration of the pregnancy, health officials say.
Officials recommended that Americans for the next 15 days avoid gatherings of more than 10 people; abstain from eating in bars, restaurants and food courts; avoid discretionary travel; work from home; and incorporate home schooling if possible.
WARSAW, March 19 (Reuters) - The Polish Bank Guarantee Fund (BFG) should abstain from collecting mandatory payments from banks in order to help them strengthen their liquidity during the coronavirus epidemic, the fund's former head said on Thursday.
In a series of tweets on Friday, Rubio said that he refuses to vote for Clinton and will not abstain from voting for one of the two "legitimate candidates" that will be on the ballot in November.
"It was a category that was created in 1823 that allowed judges to abstain from pronouncing a sentence of death on any capital convict whom they considered to be a fit subject for pardon," Mr. Sweet said.
The agency did not say exactly how many of the women were pregnant, but it reiterated its recommendation that people returning from Zika-infected areas use condoms or abstain from sex for the duration of their partner's pregnancy.
During a lengthy interview with Beats 1's Zane Lowe on Apple Music, the rapper, 42, revealed that there were times during the process of making the religious album he asked his collaborators to abstain from premarital sex.
Relying on a multimillion dollar donation to cover the cost of the expensive database risks putting her campaign at odds with the spirit, if not the letter, of the pledge she made to abstain from "big money" fundraising.
GENEVA (Reuters) - People returning from areas where the Zika virus is found should follow safe sex practices or abstain from sex for at least eight weeks rather than just four, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
It's extremely difficult to abstain from substances through recovery; in fact, many people with substance abuse disorder consider relapses to be a symptom of their illness, and consider their recovery to be a lifelong process for this reason.
The WHO has advised that pregnant women avoid travel to Zika outbreak areas and that men who have been infected by or exposed to the virus practice safe sex, or abstain from sex, for up to six months.
Meanwhile, ISS, a proxy advisor to many large shareholders, has recommended that its members abstain from a vote over Staley's re-election, though it has not opposed it at the bank's upcoming annual general election meeting next month.
Despite the recount findings resulting in a bolstering of Trump's legitimacy, leftist agitators urged Electoral College electors to abstain from finalizing the president's place in the White House on the basis he lost the irrelevant (California) popular vote.
Already on Monday, it had become clear a decision was very unlikely after France said last week it was opposed to approval of glyphosate and diplomats said the EU's biggest power, Germany, planned to abstain from any vote.
He quickly made a name for himself by voting no on a GOP-backed government funding measure because it did not do enough to cut spending, as well as citing constitutionality issues to abstain from several other votes.
I should say that these men still enjoy sex—the problem is that they fear the onset of symptoms, so they tend to avoid it, with some seeking to abstain from sex and masturbation as much as possible.
Across the country, voter purges employ an easily manipulated "use it or lose it" rule, under which eligible voters who exercised their First Amendment right to abstain from voting in prior elections can be booted off the rolls.
The federal guidance urged Americans for the next two weeks to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people; work or attend school from home whenever possible; and abstain from eating or drinking at bars, restaurants and food courts.
"We can sit back and sort of watch this unfold around us and abstain from taking any action or stance because we think that there might be some blowback that might be unpleasant for us," Mr. Collison said.
"Timing the next RBI move has become precarious after it chose to abstain from additional front-loading, despite a sharp growth downgrade and below-target inflation forecast with balanced risks," said Abhishek Upadhyay, senior economist at ICICI Securities.
Athens aims to bring the cash buffer to up to 20 billion euros ($23.7 billion), which would permit it to abstain from tapping markets for more than two years if issuing conditions are not favourable, the official said.
But, this time, Goldman and its allies failed to deliver, amid demands for more control by the French state and resistance from Renault's alliance partner Nissan, which decided to abstain from a Renault board vote on the deal.
Nissan on Monday said it had received a letter from Renault stating the French automaker planned to abstain from a shareholder vote on the reform plans, effectively blocking them as they require a two-thirds majority to pass.
People returning from areas with transmission of the Zika virus should follow safer sex practices or abstain from sex for at least eight weeks, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, doubling the four weeks it had previously recommended.
If the BOJ did abstain from stimulus in June, that could weigh on market confidence in the central bank's commitment to increasing inflation, potentially translating into a stronger currency and making the BOJ's job even more difficult, Devalier said.
In 493, the FDA revised its controversial ban, announcing that gay and bisexual men can donate blood if they abstain from sex with men for a full year—a condition heterosexual donors and LGBTQ women don't have to meet.
It is still unclear whether the Commission will have the qualified majority needed for a binding decision, as Germany has said it would abstain from voting because ministries run by different parties in the ruling coalition are at odds.
The CDC said men with a pregnant partner who live in or have traveled to an area of active Zika transmission should use condoms during sex with their partner or abstain from sex for the duration of the pregnancy.
Because how can someone possibly choose to abstain from voting after witnessing Trump propose a Muslim ban, refuse to condemn the KKK, make fun of a disabled person at a rally, and disparage the parents of a Muslim soldier?
For instance, people might abstain from alcohol because they are already in poor health, and most studies can't distinguish between people who have never had a drink and those who drank heavily earlier in their lives and then quit.
Zanchetta could not be reached for comment on the accusations or the Vatican statement, which said he would "abstain from work" in APSA - where the pope had created a new position for him - while a preliminary investigation went ahead.
This is why doctors and pill makers tell people that, after missing two days of active pills, they should use a backup method or abstain from sex until they've been back on their pill-popping schedule for seven consecutive days.
The move to slash US funding to the UN by congressional Republicans was triggered by the Obama administration's decision to abstain from a Security Council vote earlier this month that declared Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal.
Ethics laws currently require senior FTC officials to abstain from representing a firm in front of the agency for a year after leaving and refrain from ever working on a matter they personally had a role in at the FTC.
From expressing his disapproval about Kim's sexy attire and their daughter North wearing makeup to asking his album's collaborators to abstain from premarital sex, Kanye has faithfully stood by all of his sentiments, though they might not always be popular.
While Ramadan isn't entirely about abstaining from food — those committing themselves to the fast are also expected to abstain from sex, and impure or violent thoughts — the idea of abstaining from food and drink is the one which takes top billing.
Both of these festivals require their artists to abstain from playing shows in Chicago within a few months of the festival, a practice known in the industry as a radius clause — though we'd imagine they'd make an exception for Swift.
Donald Trump: 'The shackles have been taken off me' In the case of ISIS and the effort to reclaim Mosul, however, military officials are making the case for the release of information -- even as they abstain from addressing Trump's comments directly.
Since there is no service that rewards people who abstain from sex or ask their bosses for less money with walk-in closets (that we're aware of, anyway), the Americans surveyed have come up with some pretty creative storage solutions.
For pregnant women, the CDC recommends that if a male partner has traveled to an area of active Zika transmission that couples use a condom correctly and consistently for the duration of the pregnancy, or to abstain from sex entirely.
It includes a list of 20 principles for agencies to adhere to, such as the fact that religious rights include both being able to act or abstain from acting and that religious liberty applies to both individuals and to entities.
The W.H.O. statement said that travelers should use condoms or abstain from sex during their stay and for at least four weeks after returning from a region within the epidemic zone; the C.D.C. suggests abstaining for eight weeks after returning.
Using Hinduism as her prime example, she argued that "selfish" vegetarians abstain from meat for fear of retribution in the afterlife, whereas "unselfish" Aryan vegetarians demonstrate their superhuman qualities and racial superiority by caring for the welfare of "all" sentient creatures.
For women who have  increased-risk pregnancies due to cervical problems, doctors may tell them to abstain from penetrative sex to reduce pre-term labor risk, although little evidence suggests this can actually help, according to the National Institutes of Health.
The trial's protocol calls for recruiting 7,800 men and women who are at high risk for heart disease and asking half to abstain from alcohol and half to have a single serving of alcohol every day, seven days a week.
In past years, Mr. Mujahid said, the Taliban have instructed their fighters to abstain from attacks; but they could not announce that publicly out of fear that the government and the American military would take advantage of it and amplify attacks.
Fine Gael has ruled since 2016 through a "confidence and supply" deal with its main rival, Fianna Fail, which agreed to abstain from opposition-driven votes over the course of three annual budgets, the last of which was presented last month.
Religious Jews abstain from driving and from spending money on the Sabbath, and public transportation has been banned in most places since an agreement before Israel's founding — known as the status quo — struck a balance between religious and secular interests.
At the same time, nearly two-thirds of about 240,000 Mélenchon supporters indicated in a mass consultation on May 83 that they preferred to abstain from voting or to cast a blank or void ballot rather than vote for Mr. Macron.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren vowed to abstain from high-dollar fundraisers if she becomes the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020, extending into the general election campaign her promise not to hold such events during the primary season.
So this year, I eschewed the typical year-long New Year's resolution in order to abstain from 12 activities, one a month, non-accumulative (each experiment ending on the last day of the month), like a dozen back-to-back Lents.
In other words, when gun control supporters begin to vote against (or abstain from voting for) candidates they would otherwise support on the basis of their positions on guns, then the general popularity of gun control will translate into electoral power.
The two most popular opposition figures are barred from the election, state resources are at his service, loyalists control potentially pesky bodies like the judiciary and election board, and the opposition has split bitterly over whether to abstain from the vote.
Traditionally, worshippers (excepting children, the infirm, and pregnant women) abstain from food, drink, and sex for a 25-hour period — from just before sunset on the 10th day of Tishri (September 18 this year) to just after sunset the following day.
Negative attitudes toward both Trump and Clinton ran high in an early May Military Times poll, with 21 percent of 951 service members polled saying they would abstain from voting and a number of respondents quoted expressing their disgust with the entire field.
OSLO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Norway's ruling Conservative Party is willing to abstain from oil and gas exploration in a key Arctic region for another four years, in return for continued parliamentary support for its minority government, tabloid VG reported online on Wednesday.
GENEVA, May 31 (Reuters) - People returning from areas with transmission of the Zika virus should follow safer sex practices or abstain from sex for at least eight weeks, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, doubling the four weeks it had previously recommended.
Hens, of course, did not abstain from laying eggs during Lent, so by Easter Sunday a typical village would have a massive egg surplus — making egg-related festivities convenient and practical even if they lacked a clear logical connection to the biblical text.
In recent weeks, the 42-year-old rapper has shared several of his controversial opinions, from expressing his disapproval of his wife's sexy attire and their daughter North wearing makeup to asking his Jesus Is King collaborators to abstain from premarital sex.
In order to attend a wedding that takes place inside a Mormon Temple, you must be a member of the Church, abstain from premarital sex, be free from drugs and alcohol, pay 10% of your income to the Church, and wear temple garments.
But when stars like Kim Kardashian, Chrissy Teigen, and even Jennifer Aniston reclaim the narrative of their journey and experience of motherhood, or decision to abstain from it, it sends a message that women are the ones in control of our own experiences.
If you're trying to get pregnant, Natural Cycles will alert you when to have sex based on this information, and if you're using it for contraception, the app will tell you when to abstain from penis-to-vagina sex or use protection.
We open with a strange scene, in which Evil Corp's CEO asks "The Last Honest Man," former Evil Corp executive Winston Campbell to help get the US Ambassador to abstain from a vote that would allow China to take control of the Congo.
The next night I resolve to abstain from sex and instead turn myself on in the best and most effective way I know: by watching an episode of British soap opera Eastenders, featuring the incredibly virile and erotic hardman actor, Danny Dyer.
Although there is very little dispute that a foreign company is importing products that infringe the patents of an American innovator, some argue that the "public interest" demands the ITC abstain from its enforcement duties and allow the infringing imports to continue.
The change, announced by Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec, its sister organization, will mean that gay and bisexual men will be permitted to donate blood only if they abstain from sex for one year, instead of the previous requirement of five years.
Under current Church teaching they cannot receive communion unless they abstain from sex with their new partner, because their first marriage is still valid in the eyes of the Church and they are seen to be living in an adulterous state of sin.
I don't have jobs, I'm not optimistic about the future for myself or for my children or even their children, but in the end, to abstain from voting is to deny yourself a privilege that not everyone in this country actually had.
During an MSNBC town hall, an audience member who said he's a Sanders supporter asked if the Vermont senator would help Clinton appeal to his loyalists, who might consider voting for a third-party candidate or abstain from casting a ballot at all.
Under Church law they cannot receive communion unless they abstain from sex with their new partner, because their first marriage is still valid in the eyes of the Church and therefore they are seen to be living in an adulterous state of sin.
The conditions included a strict curfew; that she live at either her apartment or her parents' home in Woodstock; that she continue mental health treatment and abstain from alcohol; and that she stay out of hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities.
From expressing his disapproval about Kim's sexy attire and their 6-year-old daughter North wearing makeup to asking his album's collaborators to abstain from premarital sex, Kanye has faithfully stood by his sentiments, though they might be popular with their fans.
But US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, previously blamed by Pyongyang for hurting negotiations, has been downplaying the importance of the recent launches, saying North Korea only ever agreed to abstain from testing intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of hitting US territory.
Appearing before a judge in Multnomah County Circuit Court on Tuesday, Wambach, who retired from soccer in October, was ordered to undergo drug and alcohol assessment and treatment, put a breath-analyzing device in her car, and to abstain from drinking alcohol.
On Sunday, the leading U.S. expert on infectious diseases, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, said that it was possible that regional lockdowns could become necessary and recommended that those at greatest risk — the elderly and those with underlying health conditions — abstain from travel.
His former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, wrote in a book draft that Mr. Trump had held up aid to Ukraine to further his political ambitions, making it harder for Senate Republicans to abstain from requesting that witnesses offer further testimony.
The conclusions were limited, since the study was observational and involved members of a religious group who are unusually healthy, do not smoke, tend to abstain from alcohol and eat less meat than the general population (half in the study were vegetarian).
If pregnant women find themselves in a region affected by Zika, experts advise they take steps to prevent mosquito bites -- such as wearing covered clothing and using insect repellants and mosquito nets -- and use condoms or abstain from intercourse during the entire pregnancy.
In his appearance at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan, a Reform Jewish congregation, the former president defended his decision to abstain from a U.N. Security Council vote at the end of his term that denounced Israeli settlements, allowing the resolution to pass.
Pregnant women whose male sexual partners have spent time in a country with confirmed transmissions of the Zika virus should either abstain from sex or use condoms during intercourse for the duration of their pregnancy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced.
Reuters spoke to about 60 people, many of whom were victims of the terror attacks or affected by communal violence over the past year, and while some plan to abstain from voting, many of those who will vote say they want a more authoritarian figure.
And in 2019, as she set herself apart from a growing field of presidential candidates by vowing to abstain from high-dollar fundraisers, it loudly pressed others to do the same, helping Warren define the terms of the primary in her own progressive image.
Elizabeth Warren relied on a multimillion-dollar Democratic donor to cover the cost of an expensive voter database — a move that risks putting her campaign at odds with the spirit, if not the letter, of the pledge she made to abstain from "big money" fundraising.
But most conservative evangelicals cannot in good conscience vote for Clinton, and voting for Trump is harmful for our country, conservatism, and our witness to the world — so we must choose to either support a third-party candidate or abstain from voting for president.
Alternatively, we can write in candidates, vote for Gary Johnson in a symbolic act (though Johnson's support for nearly unrestrained personal freedoms will be acceptable to few evangelicals who view community and limits as social and moral goods), or abstain from voting for president altogether.
Eventually, I made my way back to the treatment room with my esthetician, Sarah, who explained that my skin would be red afterwards, and that I'd have to abstain from wearing makeup for 24 hours, and steer clear of hot water or harsh products.
For a Congress that, in part, wants to defund Planned Parenthood and roll back access to contraception, it is perhaps unsurprising that someone from the U.S. House of Representatives seems to want to put a fun, modern spin on choosing to abstain from sex altogether.
Due to research into the damaging effects of alcohol during fetal development, the CDC claims there's no safe way to drink if pregnant, so women who could possibly conceive ought to abstain from drinking in order to preserve the life of hypothetical unborn children.
The CDC and other health agencies have been operating for months on the assumption that Zika causes brain defects, and they have been warning pregnant women to use mosquito repellent, avoid travel to Zika-stricken regions and either abstain from sex or rely on condoms.
"Until we get additional clarification on the intent and breadth of the President's decision to review 'Big game Trophy decision' we have been asked to abstain from issuing any permits for both Lions and Elephants," he told top staff the day after Trump's tweet.
"Until we get additional clarification on the intent and breadth of the President's decision to review 'Big game Trophy decision,' we have been asked to abstain from issuing any permits for both lions and elephants," Sheehan told top staff the day after Trump's tweet.
Sessions said the guidance he issued in October lays out 20 fundamental principles for the executive branch to follow, including the principles that free exercise means a right to act — or to abstain from action — and that government shouldn't impugn people's motives or beliefs.
One case reported in Dallas last week was transmitted sexually, prompting federal health officials to release new guidelines on Friday warning that men who have traveled to Zika-infected countries should use condoms or abstain from sex for the duration of their partner's pregnancy.
Mr. Sánchez also tried to convince Podemos at least to abstain from voting by arguing that not doing so would help keep Mr. Rajoy and his Popular Party in power and thus extend some of the austerity and labor policies that Podemos has violently opposed.
Now that Trump has decided to answer Roberts directly, the Supreme Court justice faces a difficult choice: Does he escalate the war of words (which would further corrode the court's role as an independent arbiter) or does he abstain from responding (which leaves Trump unanswered).
After completing a three-month in-patient treatment program in 2016, Levy agreed to abstain from alcohol and other mood-altering substances and to submit to random screenings in order to return to practice and keep his job and medical license, the DOJ said.
In the latest advisory, the C.D.C. also recommended that men who travel to the Olympics use condoms or abstain from sex with pregnant partners, advice it has already given to those traveling to areas affected by Zika because of reports that the virus can be sexually transmitted.
"Pregnant women whose sexual partners live in or travel to areas with Zika virus outbreaks should ensure safe sexual practices or abstain from sex for the duration of their pregnancy," the WHO said in a statement, based on advice from its Emergency Committee of independent experts.
In his second presidential bid, Bernie Sanders will uphold a pledge from his 2016 campaign to abstain from "personal attack ads" against his opponents, but is not ruling out the possibility of ads that draw contrasts on the basis of policy "differences," an aide said Wednesday.
The Patriarch compared his own church's erstwhile Soviet captivity (which required it to abstain from any criticism of the atheist regime) with the present situation of England's church, which to pious Russian eyes now looks powerless to resist the tide of godless secularism and moral experimentation.
Of course, all moms are different, and we won't purport to know what Beyoncé and her doctors have discussed in regards to her well-being, but generally after giving birth, women are told to abstain from most things — including exercise and sex — for at least six weeks.
Consistent with this idea, it's easy to find news reports about boxers, football players, MMA fighters, soccer players, and other athletes who abstain from sex (often at the urging of their coaches) during training or around major competitions, such as the Olympics and the World Cup.
The program, dubbed iPLEDGE, which was started in 224.6 by the Food and Drug Administration, requires women who want a prescription for isotretinoin to use birth control or promise to abstain from intercourse and to take a pregnancy test before starting the drug and every month thereafter.
The animal rights group erected a billboard in the crab-loving town calling for residents to abstain from eating the blue crab, which was chosen as the state crustacean of Maryland in 1989, with the words: "I'm me, not meat," The Baltimore Sun reported on Friday.
While the debate about the rules was strong and sometimes contentious, of the over two dozen members representing a diversity of racial and ethnic backgrounds on the committee, the only votes to abstain from supporting the plan were from former party chairs Don Fowler and Donna Brazile.
Washington, Paris, London and the governments of Germany, Spain and Italy urged a return to government control of all oil and gas installations and called on all parties "to abstain from any act of hostility and avoid all actions that could damage or disrupt energy infrastructure".
Such outcomes are typical in the American criminal justice system, even though, as Ms. Eldred's lawyer has argued, ordering a drug addict to abstain from drug use is tantamount to mandating a medical outcome — because addiction is a brain disease, and relapsing is a symptom of it.
Washington (CNN)A minority of the Supreme Court is expected to attend President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address Tuesday night, sitting together in their judicial robes near the front of the chamber and attempting to abstain from the partisan nature of the event.
Or, if you're holding off on drinking but gradually gaining weight and have no medical or personal reason to abstain from alcohol, you might try having a glass of wine on most days to see if your weight stabilizes or even drops slightly over the coming months.
The rules on the subreddit say that "men (and top tier ladies) abstain from masturbating until the clock strikes 12:00 AM on December 1st," but later says that non-ejaculatory masturbation and pre-cum are allowed, and that orgasms, not masturbation, are what disqualifies you.
To commemorate International Women's Day on March 8, a small group of women have organized "A Day Without a Woman" — an entire day for women to abstain from going to work or shopping to illustrate the economic value that women provide, despite often receiving lower wages or other inequities.
On Wednesday, Russia's foreign ministry repeated its offer to use the plan, calling on North Korea to stop its missile and nuclear tests, while urging the United States and South Korea to abstain from their "unprecedentedly large-scale, unscheduled military air exercises announced to be held in early December".
But beyond the arguments with Spahr and Young's ideas and methodology, what was most interesting to me about the conversation at the Poetry Project were the moments when those invited to contribute and speak made concrete suggestions about how to counteract or simply abstain from the white room.
Chastity was a given outside of marriage, and even married couples should abstain from sex except for once a month, for the sake of procreation (orgasm was harmful to the body, and any loss of semen was equivalent to a much greater loss of blood, he falsely claimed).
"All pregnant women with sex partners who live in or traveled to an area with Zika use barrier methods during sex or abstain from sex for the remainder of their pregnancy," the CDC said, adding that men should wait at least six months after infection to attempt to conceive.
Meanwhile, when the shofar is blown at the end of Yom Kippur services (Rabbi Hain says this is the one time it's used during Yom Kippur), it adds to the already solemn tone of the holiday, in which observers may fast or abstain from indulgences for the day.
ECHOES OF DUTERTE Reuters spoke to about 60 people, many of whom were victims of the terror attacks or affected by communal violence over the past year, and while some plan to abstain from voting, many of those who will vote say they want a more authoritarian figure.
On Thursday, Seattle Municipal Court Judge Ed McKenna handed down the ruling, stipulating that Hansen, 52, must pay a $43 fine, abstain from drugs and alcohol until June 27, 2019, and not have any contact or come within 500 feet of the Uber driver, according to court records.
At least 80 Roman Catholic dioceses across the United States have said it's okay to enjoy corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick's Day this year — despite the fact that the holiday falls on a Friday during Lent, when practicing Catholics are typically required to abstain from eating meat.
The new guidelines also suggest that both women and men in couples planning a pregnancy in the near future consider avoiding travel to areas where Zika is being transmitted, and that they use condoms or abstain from sex for at least six months after travel before trying to conceive.
The iconic rapper — who recently made a deal with the NFL to help with the league's social justice initiatives and has expressed interest in becoming a team owner — was "disappointed" in Kaepernick's decision to abstain from a private workout organized by the NFL, according to a TMZ report.
U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson in Denver on Wednesday ruled that under the Burford doctrine, which exceptionally gives a federal district court the discretion to dismiss a case when it involves complicated state regulations, he would abstain from interfering with the state's efforts to establish a coherent policy.
Given the weakness of Mr. Trump's arguments, it's possible to imagine that they would take the position that the judicial branch should abstain from a conflict between the other two branches — a way of dodging the issue that would effectively allow them to give Mr. Trump a victory.
He insisted that all agents have some background in law or accounting; that they wear dark suits and ties; that they abstain from alcohol and be models of personal propriety; and that they use new, scientific methods of sleuthing, including fingerprint identification, ballistics, handwriting analysis and phone-tapping.
While all projections show him as most likely to triumph over Le Pen on May 7, that could change if her very motivated supporters come out in droves, and if 30 percent of the electorate were to abstain from voting — as some voters indicated they would all spring.
February 5, 2016: CDC to men: Use a condom, or don't have sex To keep unborn babies from the dangers of Zika, men who have been exposed to the virus and have a pregnant partner should use a condom throughout the entire pregnancy or abstain from sex altogether, warns the CDC.
Either abstain from sex or use condoms for at least a period of eight weeks if you were in a place with Zika but showed no signs of infection, and up to six months if you had symptoms or were diagnosed with the virus (see the above chart for details).
Here's what the US Centers for Disease Control has to say on the matter:Men who have traveled to or reside in an area with active Zika virus transmission and their pregnant sex partners should consistently and correctly use condoms during sex...or abstain from sex for the duration of the pregnancy.
One of the new recommendations mentions that men with a pregnant sex partner who reside in or have traveled to an area of active Zika virus transmission and their pregnant sex partners should consistently and correctly use condoms during sex or abstain from sexual activity for the duration of the pregnancy.
"Until we know more, if your male sexual partner has traveled to or lives in an area with active Zika virus transmission, you should abstain from sex or use condoms the right way every time you have vaginal, anal, and oral sex for the duration of the pregnancy," the report says.
Women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant are advised to avoid travel to the at least 41 countries and territories where Zika has spread, and men who have been to those areas are advised to abstain from sex or use condoms with partners who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.
The medieval requirement that a priest abstain from sex and from marriage probably made it harder to find men willing to serve from the first moments it was mandated, though willingness to turn a blind eye when priests engaged in same-sex relations, kept mistresses and committed sexual assault may have helped.
"Until we know more, if your male sexual partner has traveled to or lives in an area with active Zika virus transmission, you should abstain from sex or use condoms the right way every time you have vaginal, anal, and oral sex for the duration of the pregnancy," the updated guidance says.
Twitter Boycott The league strongly supports the right of a player to abstain from sharing his indignation over the latest police shooting/neo-Nazi rally/mass disenfranchisement of black voters via Twitter, Instagram, and other social-media platforms until such time as racial justice is achieved and/or after the Super Bowl.
"Imagine that 40 days before the first round, out of the blue ... I say it is finished, (and) that all that I have been saying over the last five years does not exist anymore," Melenchon told BFM TV. "That would be absurd, that would encourage thousands of people to abstain from the vote".
Women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant are advised to avoid travel to the at least 42 countries and territories where Zika has spread, and men who have been to those areas are advised to abstain from sex or use condoms with partners who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.
The conflict came at a critical time for the N.F.L., which has been in talks with players to address some of the concerns that led them to abstain from standing for the anthem, including racial injustice and, more specifically, the treatment of African-Americans by the police and the criminal justice system.
But, as promised if he was defeated, Johnson put forward a motion calling for a snap election, mooted for October 15, but he failed to get the support of two-thirds of parliament needed to hold a vote as the main opposition Labour Party instructed its MPs to abstain from the vote.
Here, I'd have you talk with your son about the excellent points raised in a brief video of the author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who notes that some white people bristle at the suggestion that they should abstain from using certain words because they have been conditioned to believe that "everything belongs" to them.
Bob CorkerRobert (Bob) Phillips CorkerTrump announces, endorses ambassador to Japan's Tennessee Senate bid Meet the key Senate player in GOP fight over Saudi Arabia Trump says he's 'very happy' some GOP senators have 'gone on to greener pastures' MORE (R-Tenn.) also suggested that the committee might simply abstain from the process.
" (emphasis added)  In a press release, the pro-Obama advocacy group J. Street welcomed America's abstention, citing a poll showing "that 62 percent of Jewish voters believe the United States should either support or abstain from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on Israel to stop building settlements in the West Bank.
Read more: No one knows why vapes are leading to lung injury and death, but a lung doctor says formaldehyde and a chemical used in weed killer may be partially to blameFor this reason, Shields said it's best for people to abstain from vaping, whether it's a nicotine or THC vape, if at all possible.
Dianne FeinsteinDianne Emiel FeinsteinTrump administration urges Congress to reauthorize NSA surveillance program The Hill's Morning Report - More talk on guns; many questions on Epstein's death Juan Williams: We need a backlash against Big Tech MORE (D-Calif.), who supported Obama's decision to abstain from the Security Council vote, also signaled support for Kerry's speech.
Cardinal Müller told the Italian publication Il Timone that church doctrine clearly prohibits divorced and remarried Catholics from receiving communion unless they abstain from sex, a position laid out in a 1981 exhortation by Pope John Paul II. Cardinal Müller also pointed to a 1993 encyclical from John Paul that warned against moral relativism.
The leading Democratic super PAC, Priorities USA, has pledged to abstain from the use of stolen emails and data for political gain in the next election, joining the Democratic National Committee in an effort to set new ethical standards across both parties after Republican groups seized on hacked information in campaign ads in at least two 2016 House races.
"In the same way that leading institutions advise us to abstain from smoking, eat healthy foods, get plenty of exercise, read to our children, volunteer, and finish school, they should advise young people to postpone having a child until they have a stable partner and are ready to be parents," a preview of his policy says.
For companies, the bill requires they disclose why they need to collect and process data, minimize employee and contractor access to user data, not use private communications like email to target ads or "other invasive purposes," obtain consent to disclose or sell personal information, abstain from using "dark patterns" that can mislead users into providing consent, among other provisions.
The political committee of the Popular Unity Candidacy — a far-left party known by its Catalan acronym, CUP — announced that its lawmakers would abstain from voting if two larger separatist parties presented Jordi Sanchez as candidate to lead Catalonia — as Mr. Puigdemont had proposed on Thursday, when he agreed to give up his campaign to be reappointed.
On Sunday, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recommended that those most at risk of being made severely ill by the coronavirus — the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions — distance themselves from large groups of people and abstain from travel, including flights and especially cruise ships.
In a direct response to Mr. Netanyahu's barb over the weekend that "friends don't take friends to the Security Council" — a reference to the Obama administration's decision to abstain from the resolution condemning the building of new settlements in disputed territory — Mr. Kerry said the United States acted out of a deeper understanding of the meaning of its alliance.
Foer, who sits on the board of directors for Farm Forward, an organization dedicated to eliminating animal suffering, implores all of us to eat less meat with a simple pitch:  If you just abstain from animal products for the first two meals of the day, you will save 1.3 metric tons of CO2e emissions per year.
The trees planted in the app take a certain amount of time to grow â€" which you can customize depending on how long you want to abstain from your device â€" but because the trees can only grow if the app remains open, people have to put down their phones if they want to add to their virtual forests.
First, people must resist the temptation to eat up some of the capital amassed in the past; they must "abstain" from consuming more than their current incomes… Second, if there is to be positive net capital formation, the community must usually undergo "waiting"—in the sense of giving up consumption goods now in return for more such goods in the future.
But the idea behind the FDA's policy is that if you cut the amount of nicotine in cigarettes — through genetic engineering of tobacco plant or chemical extraction — to very low levels (between 0.3 and 0.5 milligrams per gram of tobacco filler), you make them less addictive or non-addictive, helping smokers quit or abstain from taking up the habit in the first place.
Where a restaurant might crowd a platter with ten dishes, the truck offers, for less than $10, a simple equation of meat and two veg — or no meat and three veg, if you prefer, in keeping with Orthodox Christian fasting traditions followed by close to half the population of Ethiopia and Eritrea, who abstain from meat for up to 250 days a year.
The Obama administration was reportedly planning to abstain from the new vote, with Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Trump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button MORE even planning an address for Thursday justifying the abstention and laying out the outgoing administration's vision for regional peace.
After the experiment, I abstain from the bean juice for two weeksRead more:I stopped drinking coffee for a week — and it made me physically illWhy you should never drink coffee on an empty stomach10 facts you should know about coffee, including how to get the most caffeine8 ways that drinking coffee is connected to better health and a longer lifeFlat white or latte?
Patrick Kramer, who works at IBM by day and in his spare time runs Digiwell, a company that supplies connected and wearable devices to Europe, says insurance companies could give favorable rates to customers who exercise or abstain from alcohol, using uniquely intimate findings from intelligent toilets programmed to send alerts about bad behavior (there are rumors that some insurers in Japan may already be doing this).
Patrick Kramer, who works at IBM by day and in his spare time runs Digiwell, a company that supplies connected and wearable devices to Europe, says insurance companies could give favourable rates to customers who exercise or abstain from alcohol, using uniquely intimate findings from intelligent toilets programmed to send alerts about bad behaviour (there are rumours that some insurers in Japan may already be doing this).
Ebola Survivors Are Being Urged To Abstain From SexUntil scientists learn more about the virus and how long it stays in the body, the U.S. Centers for …Read more ReadSince then, the CDC has recommended survivors use condoms indefinitely, but the full extent of Ebola's clinginess wasn't clear until Tuesday, when a new report on the virus was published by The Lancet Global Health.
Although various resolutions circulated for more than a year, diplomats said the effort gained steam after the US election because of the consensus the incoming Trump administration would veto any action against Israel at the UN. Last week, the White House decided it would abstain from the Security Council vote on the settlement resolution, allowing it to pass by not exercising the US veto.
Federal health officials are stepping up their warnings of the virus, which was transmitted sexually in Texas for the first time this week — the first locally transmitted case in the U.S. In newly issued guidelines about sexual transmission of the disease, officials said men who have traveled to Zika-infected countries should use condoms or abstain from sex for the duration of their partner's pregnancy.
This self-portrait is by far my favorite: the lighting, styling, expression and haircut lend this photo the look of a film still from George Lucas's THX 1138 —James Bareham A DAY WITHOUT A WOMAN Organized by the same group behind the Women's March, A Day Without A Woman was held on International Women's Day and encouraged women to abstain from work (if possible) and protest.
People involved in fundraising for Persist PAC, the new group supporting Warren, say they will aim to do what the campaign was only able to in small measure: amplify her basic message on TV with the financial support of the national donor network Warren developed in her 2012 and 2018 Senate bids but set aside last year when she decided to abstain from high-dollar fundraising.
Each video that was part of the Shadow of Mordor campaign was required to meet five criteria: to show gameplay, to include "a strong verbal call-to-action" to click the link to the game's page in the video description, to "promote positive sentiment," to avoid showing any bugs or glitches, and to abstain from communicating any "negative sentiment" about the game or its developer.
As long as she's on course to win, some number of people who despise Trump, but don't care for Clinton—millennials who believe she's too corrupt or scripted; anti-Trump conservatives who can't abide her liberalism; others laboring under a quarter century of hate debt—will feel freed to abstain from voting, or to register a protest vote for Green Party nominee Jill Stein or Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson.
As a Muslim observing Ramadan myself, I'm used to reading a lot of articles about how spiritually beneficial Ramadan is, and seeing thinkpieces from well-meaning non-Muslims about how great the month is, or—without fail, every single year—how Muslims manage to fast in countries where the sun never sets (as one of the ways you observe Ramadan is to abstain from food and water during daylight hours).
Over half (52%) say they wouldn't give up their cell phone, 49% say they wouldn't give up owning a car and 34% wouldn't abstain from dining out, according to a recent survey by Tally, which asked more than 2,000 U.S. adults (1,5003 of whom currently have financial debt) which products or services they would be unwilling to sacrifice for one year in order to be relieved of their debt.

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