Word: abstained
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...British salt monopoly,* when he should break British law by scooping up a little sea water and publicly evaporating it to recover a mere pinch of salt?what then? Would enough Indians respond to this, the agreed signal for nonviolent, mass civil disobedience? Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,? buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands...
...personal taste that guides them. In this aspect the poll brings the weight of fact to the old contention that legislation is without effect in such moral and personal issues as the use of alcohol. Undergraduates drink if they choose to drink; even those who abstain flout the Constitution in principle if not in actual deed...
...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...