To preach total abstinence is unrealistic and disastrous public-health policy.

The newest cult to claim one million converts preached poverty, abstinence, and the worship of the planet Jupiter.

The fact is dismaying, but preaching abstinence can't do much to change it.

They've been preaching abstinence for 2,000 years.

"You've been preaching abstinence for a hundred years," she fired back.

I have become the reformed drunk who preaches abstinence for all.

He would preach sexual abstinence to teen-agers but believes that abortion finally is a woman's choice.

They are expected to solve the problem by preaching morality and abstinence in the face of opposite social mores.