Islam the dominant religion in Malaysia forbids the eating of pork while Hindus generally abstain from beef.
They have elected to suffer the wrath of God rather than abstain from sin.
The researchers had 15 male participants abstain from drinking or eating anything caffeinated for 36 hours.
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Only Syria, the Security Council's only Arab member, is expected to abstain from the vote.
Russia seems to have buckled under international pressure to abstain from directly selling weapons systems to Iran.
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When the government failed to bow to its demands, it said it would abstain from the vote.
Yet any opposition will be measured by the number of delegates who abstain from voting for him.
Nor did it look at how long someone had to abstain from red meat to end the process.
They asked their fellow Kiwis to abstain from sex for those seven weeks.
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Unauthorized immigrants are overwhelmingly peaceful people who abstain from property and violent crimes.
In fact, it may even be counterproductive for Netanyahu to abstain from responding in the hopes of buying time.
El Nacional reports this morning that based on a poll, 40% of the Venezuelans will abstain from voting on December 2.
Both have veto powers, but opted to abstain from the March resolution.
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Many campaigners believe that since the US and Russia are against the compromise, the EU might withdraw their proposal and abstain from the vote.
The Court today holds that our Constitution protects us from federal regulation under the Commerce Clause so long as we abstain from the regulated activity.
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Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has said he expects the debate to harden on the right, and accepts that some Socialist deputies may abstain from voting.
The group also favors banning so-called "soft money, " unrestricted donations to parties, and providing free or discounted TV advertising to candidates who abstain from accepting private donations.
The Senate panel report contains some elements that further demonize health insurers and their pursuit of profits, so we would recommend value investors abstain from buying these stocks.
European nations also persuaded the U.S. to abstain from a United Nations Security Council vote last year that sent the issue of Darfur, Sudan, to the International Criminal Court.
Among those who supported the vote, many expressed satisfaction that China had decided to stand up to the rest of the Security Council rather than simply abstain from voting.
The United States plans to abstain from the U.N. vote, a move that will allow the Pan Am families to receive compensation while not conflicting with keeping U.S. sanctions in place.
In 1994 advocates of the new population-planning policies health care, choice and women's rights were told by Pope John Paul II that a woman who wished not to conceive should simply abstain from sex.
Jordan's Central Bank had initially ordered all banks in the country to freeze any accounts belonging to six leading Hamas leaders and to abstain from any financial transactions involving the Palestinian group.
Or will he do it more disingenuously, as former UN Ambassador John Bolton speculated in the Wall Street Journal last week, by having the United States abstain from an approving vote by the United Nations Security Council.
Mr Pistorius was originally ordered to hand over his two South African passports, avoid his home in Pretoria and all witnesses in the case, report to a police station twice a week and to abstain from drinking alcohol.
Pressure for disclosure of the entire ethics case against Gingrich is also coming from his fellow Republicans, notably Rep. Christopher Shays of Connecticut, who says he will abstain from voting for Gingrich as speaker in January without all the information.
The NAPF - which represents pension funds controlling about a fifth of the shares on the London Stock Exchange - has asked its members to abstain from voting on pay awards at a series of annual general meetings this year.
After Obama endorsed the Palestinian position that negotiations must be based on the indefensible 1949 armistice lines, and did so in the face of explicit Israeli entreaties that he abstain from doing so, the ADL released a statement applauding Obama.
Mike Nesbitt said his party would abstain from a vote because while the party would not support fracking if there were any evidence that damage would be done to the environment, closing down the exploration would have "reputational damage on Northern Ireland PLC".
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