Word: abstained
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...first-named for an injunction against the New York Sugar Exchange. A host of local political figures are also joining in the search for the guilty parties, notably Mayor Hylan, who has urged a consumers' boycott. Several women's organizations have announced a ferocious willingness to abstain from icings on cakes and other luxuries, and promise mass meetings and other mighty events in the near future...
...writing". Among other subjects, he wrote on the prohibition of some books which were deemed immoral, Professor Lowes bringing out by reading some of his writing the deep belief of Milton that virtue consists "not in avoiding the conflict, but in the power to see, to know, and yet abstain...
...duty to deal fairly with others, and respect their rights? Would Cain have acted properly if, instead of being a single individual, he had been fifty millions to Abel's twenty-five millions and had called himself a nation? Is a nation under any more obligation to abstain from acts against other nations which, if committed by a private individual, would make him an object of general abhorrence, and perhaps bring him to the gallows? Is abstaining from such things the limit of its moral obligation, or does it have any positive duties to others? In short, does the Golden...
...would receive in this country the protection of liberal laws, they must grant to the Loyal Coalitioner and the independent thinker the same freedom of expression for which they clamor. They must cease seeking to subvert the machinery of American government to the schemes of Irish separatism. They must abstain from the intimidation of voters and the baiting of public officers...
...things; and oh what happiness when men shall be delivered from the universe! What glory then for out pessimists, who alone can bring about reforms! They lead us wisely, for they see clearly that if men be allowed to retain their personal liberty to make use of, or to abstain from, alcohol, nicotine, and other curses from Heaven, they shall never come to perfection, but shall continue to retrogress and to die as in the past...