Abstention in a sentence as a noun

Maybe it's because I haven't found a way to use it yetFor this same reason, I'm leaning towards "No" or abstention.

I don't think abstention is a very good way to protest in a country with already low voter turnout.

As was the recent abstention regarding bombing Libya.

In this case, the intent behind their abstention is inside the standard transaction: they abstained to get good grades.

They look at a quite wide range of potential factors that might be correlated with abstention and increase mortality.

We've made it generally illegal to drink before the age of 21, so we have a culture of expected abstention until that age.

If nobody should "produce goods without compensation", doesn't that make abstention immoral?

Rasmus generally promotes abstention from using frameworks, and the use of PHP as more of a templating language.

The term boycott implies collective abstention to influence something outside of the standard transaction.

The semantic objection is not because of "purchasing" implications, but the intent behind the abstention.

We reveal that reasons for abstention capture heterogeneity in the risk of death among lifetime abstainers.

I'm not going to attempt to be exhaustive here, as anyone can look up a hundred resources, but, as a first approach, I think that your strategy of "complete abstention" is misguided at best.

Abstention definitions

noun

the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)

See also: abstinence