Word: abstaining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year before, the University faced fewer proposals involving environmental issues and voted to abstain on or oppose the ones it did consider...
...that the world's decision makers are as culpable as the smaller fish. "How about the people in the Soviet Union who authorized the dumping of nuclear subs and other radioactive waste, the use of rivers as open sewers, the taking of endangered whales when other nations agreed to abstain?" she says. "Or decision makers in the U.S. who gave the go-ahead years ago to reroute waterways in South Florida at great expense--a decision that has now been reversed, at great expense...
...respectfully hostile. Indeed, it is with some apprehension and not a little awkwardness that I mention the "r" word at all, in any of its forms or guises. I have, of course, found ways of expressing my native Catholicism. I attend St. Paul's student Mass nearly every Sunday, abstain from eating meat during Lent, wear an ashen cross on my forehead the whole of Ash Wednesday, and even attend Mass on holy days of obligation every once in a while. But in the classroom and among mixed groups of my friends and acquaintances, I hardly ever utter a word...
...making wise ones. You point the finger at the standard evils of TV and music. These are not to blame. When I was at a young age, my mom gave me "the talk" and wasn't embarrassed or hush-hush about the topic. The result is, I plan to abstain from sex until I'm married. JULIA SWEET, age 16 Mercer Island, Wash...
First, proctors and tutors must change their approach to the issue of drinking. Rather than implying that everyone drinks, they should send the message that drinking is not essential at Harvard and that to abstain is a worthy choice. Likewise, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 must realize that formal statements about the risks of drinking do little more than imply that the College expects us to drink; for those of us on the impressionable edge, an anti-drinking message, delivered loud and clear, could be persuasive...