Sentences with phrase «abstaining from certain»

As much as I love my food love affairs (constant and occasional), I'm also quite intrigued by the idea of abstaining from certain foods I usually gravitate towards and see where that takes me.

It's the same thing, we believe that you must «make covenants» such as baptism and abstaining from certain things as Jesus taught.

Pursuant to the President's Executive Order and Executive Branch policy, and in keeping with the Attorney General's religious liberty guidance, HHS proposes this rule to enhance the awareness and enforcement of Federal health care conscience and associated antidiscrimination laws, to further conscience and religious freedom, and to protect the rights of individuals and entities to abstain from certain activities related to health care services without discrimination or retaliation

«They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods,» said Paul, «which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth» (I Timothy 4:1 - 5).

Yet at the same time Rosa Bonheur is forced to admit: «My trousers have been my great protectors... Many times I have congratulated myself for having dared to break with traditions which would have forced me to abstain from certain kinds of work, due to the obligation to drag my skirts everywhere...» Yet the famous artist again feels obliged to qualify her honest admission with an ill - assumed «femininity»: «Despite my metamorphoses of costume, there is not a daughter of Eve who appreciates the niceties more than I do; my brusque and even slightly unsociable nature has never prevented my heart from remaining completely feminine.»

Most controversial in the covenant is the requirement to abstain from certain actions, including anything that violates the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman.

The Court states that in assessing an application for refugee status on an individual basis, authorities can not reasonably expect the applicant to abstain from certain religious practices (para. 80).

Not exact matches

It welcomes all students, but insists that they adhere to certain beliefs and abstain from conduct that violates those beliefs.

Mithraists were expected to resist sensuality and to abstain from eating certain foods.

Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows» Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain foods on this day, including apples, potato pancakes and soul cakes.

Lent is a time of reflection, when many people give up certain vices, abstain from eating meat on Fridays and prepare themselves for the Easter celebration.

In fact, the most compelling reason for this practice is that the party with the most seats can survive confidence votes so long as the smaller party (or parties) simply abstain from confidence votes, whereas a governing party without a plurality in the House needs at least one other party to vote with it at all times (assuming the largest party will always vote no confidence, but that is almost certain to occur when they are denied the opportunity to govern).

The Citizen went on to praise Valesky for being the only member of the conference to abstain from voting to retain Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson for another two years, regardless of whether the Democrats end up in the minority — an all - but certain fate, at this point.

They found that smokers who abstained from cigarettes showed weakened interconnectivity between certain large - scale networks in their brains: the default mode network, the executive control network, and the salience network.

The foundation of IF is pretty simple: abstain from eating during certain time periods and eat during others.

Some Christians historically abstained from meat on All Hallows» Eve, a tradition reflected in the eating of certain foods on this day, including apples, potato pancakes and soul cakes.

Broad Run may abstain from voting a proxy when the effect on the economic interests of investors in the Focus Fund or the value of the Focus Fund's portfolio holding is indeterminable or insignificant; or when the cost of voting the proxies outweighs the benefits, e.g., when voting certain non-U.S. securities.

I particularly enjoyed the floating geometry of a gold rectangle against broad blue swathes of action painting, vocalizing on top of power chords, even as I wish he had abstained from the graffiti culture's obligation to tag everything with his initials right when the surface of the painting was shimmering with a certain delicacy.

Briefly, the doctrine of Younger abstention provides that a federal court may abstain under certain circumstances from decided a case or controversy when a state judicial proceeding is pending.

Registration — refusing to accredit professional programs, in the public interest: Courts in three provinces have moved forward to address the power of law societies to refuse to accredit a Christian law school, based on a public interest concern about the school requiring students to sign a covenant abstaining from sexual intimacy outside of marriage between one man and one woman — a covenant that would effectively discriminate against students of certain sexual orientations.

To qualify, members must adhere to certain values, including abstaining from alcohol and drugs and sticking to a «healthy lifestyle.»

Contracts obligate the signers to take or abstain from taking certain actions.