Some abstained altogether from the community meal; for these bread, water, and salt were placed in their cell.

But now some researchers have begun to ask two related questions: Can people who drink too much yet are not alcoholics cut back on their drinking without abstaining altogether?

The ILP did so only at the price of appearing to abstain altogether from the politics of what almost everyone else took to be the real world.

Experts say the belief that physical exertion in the bedroom places strain on the heart prompts many heart patients to limit their sexual activities or to abstain altogether.

It was notable that 45 delegates belonging to the governing coalition either voted for Gauck or abstained altogether during the first round.

"So, in order to protect yourselves, we recommend taking security precautions when speaking out on Facebook or abstaining from it altogether."

According to Kmoch, Alekhine abstained from alcohol altogether for five years after the 1935 match.

My botanist, who abstains altogether, is of another opinion.