(v. i.) To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.
(v. t.) To hinder; to withhold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(2) Abstainer rates in the total population controlled for treatment decreased with increasing WPY (P less than 0.005).
(3) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
(4) Britain and France formally announced this week they would abstain, along with Portugal and Bosnia.
(5) Although close to 50% of this sample were abstainers, 11% of the drinkers were found to be heavy drinkers, averaging more than two drinks daily, while 18% were high-maximum drinkers, consuming at least five drinks on an occasion prior to pregnancy.
(6) Compared to abstainers, the heaviest drinkers had the highest systolic (JM, p = 0.001; WM, p less than 0.01) and diastolic (JM, p less than 0.002; WM, p less than 0.05) blood pressures.
(7) The Labour leadership is understood to be pressing for its MPs to abstain on the grounds that the party’s policy is under review and the real vote on Trident will come in the decisive “main gate” decision on renewal next year.
(8) But the prime minister failed to win the support of more than half of his 303 MPs after 136 Tories rejected the measure and around 40 Tory MPs either did not vote or actively abstained.
(9) 36% of the group had abstained from further drug taking, 27% were taking them periodically, 32% had to be treated again and 5% had deteriorated (trend towards invalidism).
(10) Their occurrence rules out any organic involvement almost with certainty, and allows abstaining from additional examinations, or keeping them within minimum limits.
(11) They all abstain from social media for fear of getting embroiled in some brouhaha.
(12) Heidi Allen, the Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, abstained in last week’s vote but said she and others would defy the party whip if concessions were not offered.
(13) Fourteen months later, 41 subjects (41%) were classified as resumers; 62 (59%) were abstainers.
(14) This finding indicates that many young people exaggerate the risk of losing status among their peers because they abstain from drinking.
(15) At their explosive 80-minute meeting, the union's delegates - who hold 4.5 per cent of the vote - voted by 19-17 to abstain because the OMOV rule change included a further measure promoting more women MPs, one of the union's longstanding causes.
(16) All subjects had been instructed to abstain from smoking for at least 10 h before and during the examination.
(17) 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.
(18) On same-sex marriage, Leadsom said she supported partnerships between gay couples but had reservations about the legislation that led her to abstain during the parliamentary vote.
(19) The salivary cotinine concentration after 1 week in 60 abstainers was 183 ng.ml-1.
(20) Never smoking abstainers die at about the same rate as never smoking moderate drinkers.
Forbear
Definition:
(n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
(v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.
(v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed.
(v. i.) To control one's self when provoked.
(v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.
(v. t.) To treat with consideration or indulgence.
(v. t.) To cease from bearing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was on that occasion that then-opposition leader Tony Abbott said , “we have never fully made peace with the first Australians ... we need to atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forbears to enable us all to embrace the future as a united people”.
(2) The Moody's report's key conclusion was relatively positive – it predicted that a combination of "lender forbearance and manageable affordability" would help older borrowers manage to avoid repossession.
(3) The cliff-side Mussenden Temple is a folly that was modelled on the Temple of Vesta in Rome and built for the Earl Bishop of Derry (one of Lord Bristol’s eccentric forbears), in 1785.
(4) Lucan was born in London to an Anglo-Irish peer, and counted among his forbears the 3rd Earl of Lucan, commander of the British cavalry who, acting on Lord Raglan’s orders, ordered Cardigan to lead the fateful Charge of the Light Brigade .
(5) The shows also captured a quality for which Ali is not often celebrated: that of quiet forbearance.
(6) Skeletal analysis of oldest human forbears around 3 million years ago reveal many anatomical similarities to African Great Apes.
(7) This new generation was no less Welsh than their forbears, but they regarded their Welshness in a different light.
(8) This is a crowded island that we live in and we must exercise a degree surely of tolerance and forbearance.
(9) • A time for trust and forbearance among the Greens.
(10) On the other, prices may drift towards a cap, which could lead to prices increasing or lead to a significant reduction in lenders exercising forbearance."
(11) The government has also urged lenders to show forbearance to mortgage customers who are struggling to make their monthly payments.
(12) That approach encourages greater truthfulness and forbearance – Miliband, for instance, was allowed to apologise for the Labour government's failures of supervision at Stafford without the Tory benches turning into a lynch mob against him.
(13) Opening her speech in Irish with "A Úachtaráin agus a chairde [president and friends]", the Queen spoke of the importance of forbearance and conciliation, "of being able to bow to the past but not to be bound by it", and of the many who have suffered the painful legacy of loss.
(14) This condition is difficult to recognize: the diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome may be obscured by normal hormonal modifications of the pregnant state; it also forbears particular severity because of maternal and foetal complications, the unusual prevalence of malignant tumours and the particular difficulty in curing or merely controlling the hypercorticism.
(15) Besides, the communist party had taught her to observe a certain nobility in suffering; a forbearance under siege.
(16) An impaired financial sector that is extending forbearance to low productivity firms while being more risk averse in funding new projects seems to be reducing firm entry and exit."
(17) However, this report makes it clear that not all lenders are showing forbearance and that additional protection is needed if we are to avoid a repeat of the repossessions crisis of the early 1990s."
(18) "Contacts have suggested that bank forbearance has played a role, with banks rolling over debt as long as companies are meeting servicing costs.
(19) Steve Mason Hornchurch, Essex • The Concise Oxford English Dictionary defines “tolerate” as “endure (someone or something unpleasant) with forbearance”.
(20) Although the government and regulator the Financial Services Authority have urged lenders to practise forbearance where borrowers are struggling to meet monthly mortgage payments, Alliance & Leicester has refused to reconsider Copeland's case.