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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
Others suggest that couples who delay or abstain from sexual intimacy early on allow communication to become the foundation of their attraction, and that this helps to ensure that companionship and partnership keep them together when the initial flames of lust die down.
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In doing so, Cary, a former Columbia Law School professor recently honored by the school at a day-long insider trading conference, replaced this messy system with a straightforward rule: anyone holding insider information must disclose it to the marketplace prior to buying or selling a stock or abstain from trading.
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Even many American beer lovers would rather abstain than sip from a can of mass-produced swill.
The French are still reeling from the German decision to abstain, along with Russia and China, from the UN Security Council vote on Libya.
It is hard to see a strong government emerging from such a contest, in which many Argentines would abstain.
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