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As subsequent events demonstrated, also fundamental to the relative cohesiveness of this group was their commitment to an abstemious traditionalism, to hard work, and to the education of their children.

Perhaps Borodin was just enjoying a rare night out and is normally an abstemious man, but his thuggish behavior is perhaps not entirely atypical of a new class of Russians that has accumulated a great deal of money and power since the Soviet Union collapsed.

Perhaps Borodin was just enjoying a rare night out and is normally an abstemious man, but his thuggish behaviour is perhaps not entirely atypical of a new class of Russians that has accumulated a great deal of money and power since the Soviet Union collapsed.

There are two-seaters and others that would hold five abstemious congregants thigh-to-thigh.

But efforts to pressure Russia's abstemious president, Vladimir Putin, into dropping a new law outlawing "homosexual propaganda'' by getting Americans to dump vodka have provided particularly fertile ground for complaints of good intentions gone awry.

Heavy on praise for her subject, Amity Shlaes's well-researched and ably crafted biography glosses over the president's economic shortsightedness in the face of the impending Depression, asserting that Coolidge's abstemious example (or "inaction," take your pick) nearly a century ago "may well help Americans now turn a curse to a blessing or, at the very least, find the heart to continue their own persevering.

I began writing poems about a contemporary Canadian couple, Donny and Ari Backus, and their two young sons, Stefan and Onno, dividing myself into the adults particularly, the Dionysian "Donny," and the abstemious "Aft.

According to the paper, the behaviour of the supposedly abstemious monks has led to Korean media speculation of a power split within the order.

Like Saskatchewan's Demery, Jonathan Loll: views Lent as a time to turn down the dimmer switch on social activities and become more meditative and abstemious.

He must have had about ten glasses of cognac in the winner's box," says the abstemious jockey, "his own, mine and everybody else's too, then he staggered out of the place with me dragging him.

Bars and pubs in Egypt either closed during the month or switched to abstemious menus, with the exception of hotel bars, which serve alcohol only to non-Egyptians.

After a lot of thinking over the pros and cons of the choices before you, you might make the hard decision to try and be more abstemious.

Firstly, the wizards have to work together (rather than every man for himself); then, the rules must be imposed (which actually requires some to be written); finally, a training regime needs to be applied to wizards for whom nine meals a day (with snacks in between) is regarded as abstemious.

While rubbish for the average Dane tipped the scales at more than 800 kilos, the Czechs were the least rubbishy, producing a comparatively abstemious 300 kilos or so.

He adopts the familiar descriptions of Allen's sobriety and upright and abstemious living often associated with Methodists.