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abstinence
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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ab·sti·nence
/ ˈabstənəns/
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n.
the fact or practice of restraining oneself from indulging in something, typically alcohol.
DERIVATIVES:
ab·sti·nent
adj.
ab·sti·nent·ly
adv.
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Abstinence end just one defeat.(CULTURE)(ON THE FAMILY)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC); 6/30/2009; 700+ words
; ...very well mark the end of a core abstinence-education program. The legislative expiration of the Title V Abstinence Education program - created in 1996...unprecedented, eight-point definition of abstinence education - will be just the first...
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Abstinence-what?: a critical look at the language of educational approaches to adolescent sexual risk reduction.(Commentary)
Magazine article from: Journal of School Health; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Adolescent Family Life Act, and the abstinence education movement began its rapid ascendancy...about sexual risk reduction in schools: abstinence or harm reduction. During the intractable...several terms became household words: "abstinence," "abstinence-only education...
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Abstinence bill gaining momentum; Backers cite safety; critics say lessons ignore teen behavior
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 11/16/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...development classes to teach sexual abstinence until marriage as the preferred behavior...at a public hearing Tuesday, where abstinence was called the only "100% effective...said Wisconsin teens don't get the abstinence message in classrooms enough because...
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Abstinence-education backers tout new oversight; Friendlier HHS division takes charge of two grant programs.(NATION)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/30/2004; 700+ words
; ...Cheryl Wetzstein, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Abstinence-education supporters are cheering...recent move of the nation's two largest abstinence-grant programs to a new - and friendlier...and $104 million community-based abstinence-education grant programs. "Wade...
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Abstinence or else! The just-say-no approach in sex ed lacks one detail: evidence that it works.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 6/16/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...encourages safe sex. Our philosophy is abstinence, not safe sex." The sentiment expressed...as school board after school board adopts abstinence-only sex education programs. Abstinence-only education stresses "character...
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ABSTINENCE-ONLY: ; Future of sex ed programs in limbo
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 1/19/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...the Bush administration, critics of abstinence-only sex education will be making...however, as conservative supporters of abstinence education lobby Congress and President...as Georgia - are determined to keep abstinence programs going on their own, ensuring...
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Abstinence promise; Bush doubles funds, gives hope to challenge Planned Parenthood.(NATION)(CULTURE, ET CETERA)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/19/2004; 700+ words
; ...administration proposal to double funding for abstinence education to $270 million a year has...However, it is sparking hope among abstinence proponents who think the money can be...All over the country from all the abstinence educators' living rooms? We're pretty...
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Abstinence funds debate heats up on Senate panel.(NATION)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 3/7/2005; 700+ words
; ...definition of a $50 million-a-year abstinence education grant program is expected...would allow states to use their Title V abstinence education funds "how they see fit...used only to promote premarital sexual abstinence. Abstinence education supporters say...
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Abstinence-only on shaky ground; Program funding threatened despite parental support in polls.(NATION)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 5/29/2007; 700+ words
; ...TIMES The fate of the nation's core abstinence-education program in the House looks...the $50 million-a-year Title V abstinence-education grant program, which expires June 30. "Abstinence-only seems to be a colossal failure...
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Abstinence Educators Call for GAO Investigation of Government Spending on Comprehensive Sex Education
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 11/3/2005; 700+ words
; ...Newswire/ -- In the midst of a national Abstinence Education Evaluation Conference being...Health and Human Services this week, abstinence educators are calling for an investigation...government money. Rather than allowing abstinence educators to follow the conference agenda...
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Abstinence/Rule of Abstinence
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
ABSTINENCE/RULE OF ABSTINENCE The term "abstinence/rule of abstinence" designates a number of technical recommendations that Freud stated regarding the general framework of the psychoanalytic treatment. As is the case with the fundamental...
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Abstinence Violation Effect (AVE)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
ABSTINENCE VIOLATION EFFECT (AVE) The abstinence violation effect (AVE) occurs when an individual, having...the cause of the initial lapse (the first violation of abstinence) to internal, stable, and global factors within (e...
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Abstinence
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
ABSTINENCE Abstinence is the act of refraining from engaging in a positively reinforced...States as a result of more smokers quitting and then maintaining abstinence from tobacco. Similarly, abstinence from alcohol reduces the risk...
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temperance and total abstinence
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
temperance and total abstinence. The first substantial temperance...popular movement in Ireland until total abstinence was introduced from England in 1835...1890s that another significant total abstinence movement emerged within the church...
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abstinence
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
abstinence. A penitential practice, consisting...of certain kinds of food. Among RCs abstinence from flesh-meat has traditionally...Conferences were empowered to substitute for abstinence other forms of penance, particularly...
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