(a.) Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
(a.) Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.
(a.) Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
(a.) Promotive of abstemiousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The life habits of 358 males abstemious (ABS) and 248 male risky or with harmful alcohol consumption (BRD) are compared; selected from the patients attending to a clinic of familiar medicine, of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) and to General Hospital of the Secretaria de Salubridad y Asistencia (SSA).
(2) Of those reporting behavior changes, 66% (25% of the total study group) claimed to be using condoms currently, and 16% (6% of the total study group) claimed to be abstemious.
(3) A remarkable part of people interviewed seems not to have a full understanding of self-definitions as "abstemious", "moderate drinker", "normal drinker", "heavy drinker".
(4) The abstemiousness of RA men compared with their OA counterparts was due to a striking increase in joint pain after drinking alcohol (p = 0.004), fear of adverse drug reactions with alcohol, and a widespread belief not expressed by OA men that 'alcohol and arthritis do not mix'.
(5) However, three-quarters of daughters of heavy-drinking fathers (21 of 28) married abstemious men (never drank or drank lightly), while only 7% married heavy-drinking husbands.
(6) By playing abstemious bloodsucker Edward Cullen in the five-part Twilight franchise (the final instalment of which comes out this winter) he has made studio Summit Entertainment two and a half billion dollars and himself into an international teen sex object.
(7) Parents – like a proportion of all parents before them – who fear their teenagers are growing up much too quickly might take comfort from that fact that in London, for example, the average age for the loss of virginity is quite an abstemious 19 years old.
(8) We’ll see a decision before the May budget and no doubt some pretty large spending promises for associated infrastructure in what is otherwise likely to be a fiscally abstemious document.
(9) The Authors have tested the plasma lipid values of elderly subjects, known as a "good drinkers" in relation to abstemious males of equal age.
(10) Evidence indicates there is more imitation by adult offspring of abstemious parents (both abstainer and low volume) than of high volume parents.
(11) Religious leaders As Lent begins, the church would have us stress simplicity and abstemiousness, purgation and renewal.
(12) Maximal offspring imitation is strongest for abstemious parents, especially for abstaining parents, and stronger for fathers abstaining than for mothers.
(13) No significant differences were found in the plasma lipid values of the good drinkers compared with those of the abstemious patients.
(14) Ironically, much of the overwhelming Trump coverage entailed panel discussions with commentators like Gloria Borger lamenting the fact that the wall-to-wall Trump coverage is crowing out engagement with any serious candidates like John Kasich, which is like watching an underclassman, mid-keg stand, gargling out, “I could get my life together if only I weren’t binge drinking!” Any journalism outlet – this one included – indulging in finger-wagging at CNN while pointing to their own marginal abstemiousness in this regard is essentially bragging about being the leper with the most fingers.
(15) The long-term effect of ethanol on human red cell membrane fluidity was studied, by fluorescence polarization with 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene as a probe, in 11 healthy subjects, 9 chronic alcoholics without evidence of liver disease, 12 chronic alcoholics with biopsy-proven alcoholic liver disease and 9 abstemious patients with chronic active liver disease, most of them cirrhosis of the liver.
(16) Conservatives What the party promised • George Osborne began the conference in abstemious mode, as he set out plans to cut benefits and squeeze public sector pay for another two years.
(17) After a lunch in Westminster with a packed room of lobby journalists last week, Farage was keen to have a few drinks and was full of bonhomie, only to be shunned by abstemious hacks.
(18) Alcohol levels were measured in 15 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples and 14 blood samples from grade III and IV male alcoholic patients with signs of nervous system involvement, and compared with levels detected in 11 CSF samples and 11 blood samples from abstemious patients or patients with grade I or II alcoholism whose CSF had been found to be normal by routine analysis (controls).
(19) For high-drinking mothers, without problems or with problems (numbers are small), daughters' drinking appears "polarized": most (60%) are abstemious, but a higher number than expected (about 35%) show high volume thus imitating the mother's volume, compared to about 17% of the total sample of daughters who were high-volume drinkers.
(20) A few years ago, contestants chugged beers and wore jeans; most are now abstemious and decked out with professional cycling equipment.
Austere
Definition:
() Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
() Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.
() Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(2) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(3) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(4) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(5) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(6) All of the parties have been trying to use Greece to their advantage.” On Monday, the governing People’s party pointed to the referendum to justify their decision to impose austerity measures during the height of the economic crisis.
(7) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
(8) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(9) Updated at 12.23pm BST 12.04pm BST As Mariano Rajoy and François Hollande prepare to reveal their austerity budgets (Spain goes on Thursday and France on Friday), they might be forgiven for casting an envious eye towards Australia where government statisticians revealed that the country is A$325bn (£200bn) better off than they'd thought.
(10) This proposal is a purely partisan move that will backfire on the government disastrously.” The Green party accused Osborne of making “efforts to limit the democratic scrutiny of his austerity agenda”.
(11) The budget red book contained a chart which suggested that the rich were indeed facing a bigger hit than anyone else, and Liberal Democrats were today pointing to this to justify the austerity package.
(12) "But if public opposition to further austerity measures hardens, the Greek government could find it even tougher to put the public finances back on a sustainable footing."
(13) The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to relieve the symptoms of debts and deficits and to cure recession.
(14) In the midst of this catastrophe, the troika is insisting on further austerity to achieve massive primary budget surpluses of 3% in 2015, 4.5% in 2016 and even more in future years.
(15) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(16) The Attlee government was toppled by peacetime austerity that voters no longer trusted.
(17) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(18) Yesterday, John McDonnell spelled out the new Labour leadership’s public investment-driven economic alternative to austerity.
(19) Then Greece has another chance.” But the intervention by the IMF will undermine EU leaders who argue Greece must submit to a fresh round of austerity measures to release funds for debt repayments.
(20) The IMF itself came under fire after it admitted in its World Economic Outlook report that officials had underestimated the effects of austerity measures on economic growth.