Word: abstain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Insofar as we have any opinion in the matter, it is our belief that, in speaking generally, these power companies are abstaining and should continue to abstain from intervention in the decision of this question and should loyally cooperate in the decision of the public authorities when that decision has been arrived...
...support the President and the Constitution, to strengthen public health and morals and to advance my own well-being and the well-being of others I pledge myself to abstain from all alcoholic liquor as a beverage and to give my utmost endeavor for the enforcement and complete success of Prohibition...
...states of eastern Europe were recognized or established, provisions were made for the interests of minorities. Practically all the states of eastern Europe, except Russia, are bound by agreements to accord these subject peoples equality of treatment, education in their own language and religious freedom, and in general to abstain from oppressive measures. But in 1919 as in the period before the war, it was thought impossible to apply similar regulations to the larger powers because such provisions obviously amount to an infringment of sovereignty. Consequently there is no legal remedy for the people of southern Tyrol...
Michigan's chief prohibiter, the Rev. R. N. Holsaple, wrote Mr. Raskob a letter. Did Mr. Raskob mean that he & friends would now comply with the spirit-of-the-law and abstain from liquor...
...Dear American friends, we humbly beg you to appoint some one who will abstain rigorously from sentimentalism and who quite simply from day to day will keep us informed as to what you really are thinking...