abstained

May I ask you if you mean 'abstinence till marriage', if you abstained till marriage and at what age you got married.

While participating in Ramadan, food and drink is abstained from dawn to sunset for each day during the month.

For Mormons, food and drink is abstained starting Saturday night after dinner until Sunday night's dinner.

A friend told me - If you've abstained for a while and then smoke, yes it helps creativity / thinking.

The Fifth Republic was explicitly created to give more power to the government and as such abstained from creating such courts.

Unless you abstained from voting, in which case you don't get to complain either.

Carlsen abstained from the 2011-2012 cycle because of his dissatisfaction with the extant process.

A hard work that the person explicitly went to the trouble of making free and abstained from any income derived solely from it.

I've abstained from Amazon Linux for the same reasons: to evade vendor lockin and facilitate cleaner non-EC2 dev environments.

It's most likely a response to the 60 minutes feature episode on their (the NSA's) actions where they abstained from spying on Americans.

Full stat for a bigger picture: 148 in favor, 4 against, 27 abstained.

It is the US and Syrian opposition that has continuously abstained from them.

Should Albert Parcelle, the creator of the first wheel-hub motor, also have abstained from "reinventing the wheel" in 1890?

And a VC that depends on another VC to "pick the winners" should just turn over their funds since they have abstained from their purpose.

As a side benefit, Apple could begin referring to the machines as "laptops" again in their marketing from time to time (which they have abstained from for at least the last 5+ years).

I happen to believe that usage of "return" in Scala is never appropriate and it was a design mistake; at the very least they abstained from adding "break" or "continue".