The result of the vote was all in favour with the exception of one abstainer and one against. |
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The urban Aboriginal youth who becomes an abstainer out of respect for ceremonial protocol will probably face ridicule from his former buddies. |
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Anyone who drinks no more than three alcoholic beverages a week is less likely to gain excess weight than would be a total abstainer. |
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Many people across the country know that I get into enough trouble dead sober, so I am very grateful to be an abstainer. |
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I mean,you wouldn't tell a total abstainer to start drinking beer and wine, would you? |
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The surly abstainer was Belgium, which held out for its candidate, Paul de Grauwe, an economist though mainly to put down a marker for a future Benelux candidate. Mr Papademos fits the job's needs, at least. |
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Perhaps, then, the reason Dry January is seen as such a challenge isn't the abstinence itself, but the fear of how the abstainer will be perceived by their peers. |
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The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink. |
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