| Whatever treatment alcoholics received in Project MATCH, few abstained for even a year. |
| Darren and Tom drank 4 bottles of wine while I abstained and painted the ceiling in the hall. |
| Their serial reports have largely abstained from considering policies aimed at generating social progress from below. |
| The French who abstained in large numbers during the European parliamentary elections were already Euro-sceptics. |
| They believed that the church should be made up of women and men who were sexually continent and who also abstained from wine and meat. |
| But despite desperate attempts to convince the Irish duo to back the reappointments, the pair abstained from voting. |
