abstinence

Abstinence was going to work just fine, I told them.

Total abstinence in both cases is the only law of life.

The woman was beautiful, beyond any questions of need or abstinence.

But others have felt it does not stress abstinence enough.

As if a year's abstinence could make a man pure!

"We needed to have more stories about abstinence," she says.

They feel that abstinence is the only form of birth control.

Other than abstinence there is only one way to protect yourself.

Abstinence may be what we should do, but that's not reality.

She had started drinking again that week after a period of abstinence.

Junior high schools were the most likely to have abstinence programs using the Federal money.

In some people, of course, such abstinence would have been a virtue.

After 10 years of abstinence, my husband has taken up smoking again.

Abstinence would not have been one of my choices for him.

Next time he went into town, he'd find a light skirt and end his abstinence.

Yet it does tell us how best to reach the goal of abstinence.

"What I would like to do is get some of this money being spent and put it in a total abstinence program," she said.

He made abstinence from all three conditions of church membership.

As a leader, I will model sexual abstinence before marriage.

For this abstinence, he is looked down upon by his peers.

It's hard, then, to figure out what the good news is about the abstinence pledge.

Well, if abstinence can work in sexual relationships, of course it will.

It would also be important to know if the changes found reverse with abstinence.

As a man Of abstinence, he was a good choice for the duty.