The firman was undoubtedly illegal, as it violated a convention possessing a quasi-international sanction, but the Christians were unable to resist, and the powers abstained from intervention.
Flesh-eating entailing necessarily an immense volume of pain upon the sentient animal creation should be abstained from by the higher classes in the evolutionary scale.
They refuted him easily on many specific points, but carefully abstained from discussing the real question, at issue, namely the propriety of free inquiry.
abstained הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד