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The autopsy in the private nursing house certified the death was caused by the last days' abstention from food.
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The church required abstention from the eating of meat or drinking of alcohol.
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Two requirements were imposed on the participants during their stay: respect for each other and abstention from drinking alcohol.
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This requires equality of saving (abstention from purchase of goods) and investment (the purchase of capital goods).
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