(1) Eleven smokers (three male and eight female) were studied after a 7-day period of abstention from smoking.
(2) A total of 192 women with a clinical and thermographic diagnosis of fibrocystic breast disease were randomly assigned to four groups on the basis of two-by-two factorial design: (1) abstention from MTX-containing beverages, (2) abstention from alcohol, (3) abstention from MTX and alcohol, and (4) no dietary advice.
(3) For alcoholics with no other drug problems, a 66% continuous abstention rate was achieved, and 77% were currently abstinent at followup.
(4) The far-left Linke delivered 53 no votes and two abstentions, while 23 Greens were in favour with two against, and 33 abstentions.
(5) Those who don’t see any point voting could always choose the “abstention” option suggested by the committee.
(6) The surgical abstention and partial excision keep many indications, but require a regular follow-up.
(7) The abstention decision underlined the tension between Obama and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , who had made furious efforts to prevent such a move.
(8) The four years since have been painful for leftwing voters who have felt at best betrayed, and often disgusted by the ruling Socialists, to the point where all elections since have seen rising levels of abstention; four out of five voters don’t want President Hollande to run in next year’s presidential election.
(9) The US administration has reaffirmed its – rhetorical – opposition to the settlements over the past five decades, both in secretary of state John Kerry’s latest speech and with its abstention from the UN security council resolution 2334 condemning Israel’s settlement activities.
(10) A decrease in women's rate of abstention was also observed.
(11) In a vote of 94 to nine, with many abstentions, the parliament approved four warplanes and three reserve jets to be deployed to northern Iraq.
(12) After 4 weeks of alcohol abstention, the urinary excretion of these enzymes returned to control values.
(13) The postheparin plasma lipoprotein lipase activity decreased by 41% and the hepatic lipase by 37% during the abstention.
(14) The aims of the present study were to evaluate the alcohol-induced changes of bone and mineral metabolism and their recovery during abstention, and to reassess any possible link between alcohol abuse and osteoporosis.
(15) But within Nato, Berlin's abstention is likely to be perceived as showing a lack of solidarity with Germany's allies.
(16) Asked about the possibility of abstentions in the vote, which is due before Christmas, Clegg told the BBC during a visit in Sheffield: "We are looking at this as a party.
(17) The development of gingivitis during the oral hygiene abstention period was more rapid and more severe in old than in young individuals.
(18) Based on recent pharmacological and pathophysiological findings, the authors confront still persisting unsubstantiated views with modern ones regarding the duration of action of analgetics, equianalgesic doses, abstention symptoms, development of dependence, tolerance and the use of co-analgetics.
(19) For maximum benefit, these measures need to be combined with the avoidance of obesity, reasonable physical activity, abstention from, or moderate use of, alcohol, and avoidance of tobacco in any form.
(20) Given the potential gravity measures must be taken to prevent this complication, by observing simple rules (respect of contraindication, use of progressive dosage regimens, avoidance of loading doses, elimination of predisposing factors and abstention from dangerous therapeutic associations) and by carefully following up high risk patients.
Aloof
Definition:
(n.) Same as Alewife.
(adv.) At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
(adv.) Without sympathy; unfavorably.
(prep.) Away from; clear from.
Example Sentences:
(1) He strikes me more as a clever man - oh, very clever - than a necessarily charming man; for there's a distance, an aloofness.
(2) "He understands that the public see him as privileged, aloof, that they don't like him as a person," says Ganesh.
(3) The solution is for Hathaway to spend a year in sarky Manchester, where her attempts to go jogging will be thwarted by 324 days of rain, and if she so much as thinks about telling a Mancunian barmaid that she has poured those lagers fantastically well, she will swiftly learn an aloofness not taught in any American drama school.
(4) The psychopathological risk is the "burning out" of the subject, and the defences developed against it, such as humour (casualness), aloofness (abdication), deviance and drug-dependence.
(5) "I don't think he is aloof at all," says the Today editor.
(6) Britain had previously held aloof from the feuds of Europe's nation states.
(7) Does the colour of Campbell skin make us more likely to interpret her behaviour as intimidating, as difficult, rather than simply as aloof, or withdrawn?
(8) Fearing false accusation, adults still stay aloof even when a child might possibly be in danger.
(9) The mother is irascible, the father aloof; on the other hand, the parental combination "mother and father affectionate" is more common.
(10) They were aloof, blokey and arrogant," said one sports broadcasting veteran.
(11) I know that I can be perceived as aloof or cold or unemotional,” Clinton said.
(12) Our first response is often to bristle at any suggestion of censure, and in doing so we risk coming across as aloof, paternalistic and insensitive to the genuine concerns of others.
(13) Alan Yentob, the BBC's creative director, denied the charge that the programme makers are aloof and told the Observer that Danny Cohen, the head of BBC1, and other commissioning editors, including Younghusband, have repeatedly reviewed what went wrong and are changing procedures following the death of controversial figures.
(14) Since the extravert is the more sociable, excitement-seeking, carefree individual, while the introvert is more retiring, aloof and introspective, it would be worthwhile in future research to determine whether the dominance, vs. submissive or the high vs. low status dimension is the essential correlate of these spatial differences.
(15) Woman at centre of South Korean row says she 'deserves death' Read more Park has already been criticised for being aloof and relying on only a few longstanding confidantes.
(16) Ministers continue to grumble that the PM is too aloof, delegating messy domestic policy to the DPM.
(17) From the start, nobody has been less aloof, more assertive, nor more influential than the oil and gas industry.
(18) The main results of this study were the identification of: a) emotionally unstable patients (42%) who did not respond to the above mentioned selection criterion; b) stable psychological traits such as hostility, aloofness, extroversion as described in type A Behavior Pattern and c) the presence of secondary alexitimic responses suggesting a protective denial of the meaning of the disease.
(19) He is the hands-on chief executive to Cameron’s aloof chairman of the board and is therefore the natural focus of Labour’s opprobrium.
(20) She writes: If the Southern Rail fiasco has taught us anything it’s surely that travellers need to stand (conveniently) shoulder to shoulder against operating companies, rather than maintain their usual mutual aloofness.