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  • Protrepsis and paraenesis (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    protrepsis", and as "moral exhortation in which someone is advised to pursue or abstain from something". Its formal characteristics include the occurrence of phrases...
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  • depicts Matt Sullivan, a San Francisco web designer who has chosen to abstain from any sexual contact for the duration of Lent. Matt Sullivan lives in...
    15 KB (1,647 words) - 18:58, 30 June 2024
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    Corporate environmental responsibility (category Articles with unsourced statements from July 2017)
    environmental responsibility (CER) refers to a company's duties to abstain from damaging natural environments. The term derives from corporate social responsibility...
    13 KB (1,699 words) - 12:26, 13 June 2024
  • Makruh (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    haram (forbidden) or subject to punishment, a person who abstains from this act will be rewarded. Muslims are encouraged to avoid such actions when or as...
    7 KB (761 words) - 02:53, 20 June 2024
  • Greenock Abstainers Football Club was a Scottish football team located in the town of Greenock, Renfrewshire. The first reference to the club is from 1887...
    8 KB (825 words) - 14:56, 5 May 2024
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    Indian Contract Act, 1872 (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    other person has done or abstained from doing or does or abstains from doing or promises to do or to abstain from doing something such act or abstinence...
    23 KB (3,654 words) - 18:47, 11 March 2024
  • Contract (Catholic canon law) (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    they define it to be an agreement by which two or more persons mutually bind themselves to give, do, or abstain from something. From the moralist's point...
    8 KB (1,200 words) - 04:19, 5 December 2023
  • to be an expression of her liberation. Second, since the only criterion for evaluating women’s freedom is individual choice, we should abstain from judging...
    4 KB (478 words) - 21:39, 23 March 2024
  • Mandamus (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    person can be said to be aggrieved only when they are denied a legal right by someone who has a legal duty to do something and abstains from doing it. The...
    16 KB (2,200 words) - 13:15, 23 June 2024
  • on to state that the letter represents circumstantial evidence which indicates that it was Nazi policy to abstain from processing corpses due to their...
    34 KB (4,372 words) - 13:01, 14 May 2024
  • Primum non nocere (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Some early versions of the Hippocratic Oath include the promise "to abstain from doing harm" (Greek: ἐπὶ δηλήσει δὲ καὶ ἀδικίῃ εἴρξειν) but do not include...
    7 KB (799 words) - 06:21, 11 April 2024
  • Nazirite (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    the nazirite to: Abstain from wine and all other grape products, such as vinegar and grapes Refrain from cutting the hair on his head Not to become ritually...
    36 KB (5,080 words) - 19:38, 8 June 2024
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    Mark Davis (American football) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    our team to not say something while they are in a Raider uniform'". Silver And Black Pride. Retrieved May 24, 2018. "Mark Davis abstained from owner vote...
    29 KB (3,138 words) - 20:04, 4 June 2024
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    Margaret Greenwood (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    officials to commit criminal offences, as Labour had whipped MPs to abstain. On 23 May 2023, Greenwood issued a statement saying that she did not intend to stand...
    9 KB (557 words) - 19:10, 6 July 2024
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    Fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    obtained from Rome the substitution of pious or charitable acts for abstinence from meat on Fridays except Good Friday. Others abstain from eating meat...
    40 KB (5,006 words) - 11:08, 14 May 2024
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    Israel–Hamas war (category Wikipedia articles needing clarification from June 2024)
    resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, to last for the remainder of Ramadan. The US abstained, all other delegates voted in favor. Israeli military...
    384 KB (37,504 words) - 02:22, 10 July 2024
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    Dopamine fasting (category Wikipedia articles needing rewrite from August 2023)
    digital detox, involving temporarily abstaining from addictive technologies such as social media, listening to music on technological platforms, and...
    13 KB (1,368 words) - 08:30, 1 June 2024
  • American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (category 2009 direct-to-video films)
    Dana has pledged to abstain from sex until marriage, despite having already slept with several people. Classmate Scott Stifler threatens to make a move on...
    11 KB (1,379 words) - 06:20, 1 June 2023
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    Consideration (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    other person has done or abstained from doing, or does or abstains from doing, or promises to do or abstain from doing something" or, in other words, when...
    27 KB (4,017 words) - 16:44, 27 February 2024
  • Sabbath mode (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    caused by something else but whose outcome is not guaranteed. Shabbat elevator – an elevator with an automatic mode to allow observers to abstain from operating...
    9 KB (1,090 words) - 13:47, 31 July 2023
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