Use "refrained" in a sentence
1. Yet, he refrained from getting involved politically.
2. He was very solemn and refrained from talking.
3. Kuwait and Oman refrained from sending troops.
4. 9 Mrs Hardie refrained from making any comment.
5. Mr Dong prudently refrained from offering the court a pirated copy.
6. 14 He has refrained from criticizing the government in public.
7. After 1760 few Americans refrained from condemning slavery as evil.
8. The Epicureans even refrained from political involvement and secret wrongdoing.
9. Most monetary authorities have refrained from introducing capital controls so far.
10. In 1934, the 17th Party Congress refrained from formally re-electing Stalin as General Secretary.
11. The majority of linguists in the early twentieth century refrained from making estimates.
12. Jessica had refrained from expressing any further disquiet over them - at lest to me.
13. She would have liked to express her opinion of his girlfriend, but prudently refrained.
14. He usually refrained from intervening directly into the political debate while serving as President.
15. We smiled feebly and refrained from attempting any further communication with these introspective folk.
16. The storekeepers paid Mr. B. a fin a week, and he refrained from smashing up their equipment.
17. The Wehrmacht also refrained from assigning a numbering scheme to the different lists of foreign recipients.
18. Secular history provides ample evidence that the early Christians remained politically neutral and refrained from warfare.
19. Joseph refrained from having intercourse with Mary until after she had given birth to her son.
20. His guards fired shots in the air, accidentally injuring one person, but refrained from using direct violence against the demonstrators.
21. Synonyms for Abstained include helped, avoided, refrained from, stopped, averted, dodged, evaded, prevented, Abstained from and bypassed
22. Synonyms for Avoided include helped, refrained from, stopped, averted, dodged, evaded, prevented, abstained, abstained from and bypassed
23. She refrained from plopping any sort of silk flora or abstract sculpture atop her well-coiffed head.
24. The Apaches also refrained from eating animals that ate the foods they considered abhorrent, which included bears, dogs and pigs
25. Right from the outset the overwhelming majority of complainants have refrained from taking up the offer of analogue local loops.
26. The director of the orphanage displayed the same attitude, but he inexplicably refrained from participating in religious services.
27. Until now, Russia has refrained from selling advanced military equipment to Pakistan, in order to avoid damaging its relationship with India.
28. Knowing that his recovery was impossible, I refrained, with his full concurrence, from having him tormented with miscalled Alleviations, such as opiates, bloodletting, and so forth.
29. - Denmark refrained from making the deduction, which increased the amount of the positive compensation as it cannot break overheads down between these operations and other banking activities.
30. Acknowledgers and nodding or when they refrained from using both types of Acknowledgers, therapist empathy and therapeutic alliance were perceived as greater than when therapists engaged in one
31. Last month Paulson refrained from labeling China a currency manipulator in a semiannual report that urged the world's fastest-growing major economy to allow the yuan to appreciate faster.
32. Unlike Zenodotus, however, Aristarchus in his edition of Homer refrained from Athetizing the verses describing the images on the Shield at I.18.483–608 (HC 2§198, with reference to primary and secondary sources).
33. I observed, however, that one of them held somewhat aloof, and though he seemed desirous not to spoil the hilarity of his shipmates by his own sober face, yet upon the whole he refrained from making as much noise as the rest.
34. Dewey's naturalism is no reductive scientism, but it is a form of fallible scientific realism, as Manicas explains in the opening chapter on "Pragmatic Philosophy of Science and the Charge of Scientism." Dewey Agnostically refrained from knowing whether the tiniest bits of matter really answer to our theoretical descriptions.
35. It gives an exhaustive list, as is abundantly clear from the detailed, precise wording of that provision, and from the fact that the EU legislature refrained in the drafting of that provision from adding any terms such as ‘as’, ‘for example’, ‘including’ or ‘etc.’, which would have indicated that the items listed were given merely by way of example.
36. ‘The Bedsore on my left buttock cheek is blistered and bleeding.’ ‘A couple of weeks ago, at the age of 52, he died of heart failure while being treated for an infected Bedsore.’ ‘A nurse who failed to turn a patient regularly to avoid Bedsores would usually be negligent, but not if she had so refrained on the express instructions of
37. In my view, therefore, the Committee should in this case have refrained from giving an opinion with respect to article 14, paragraph 5, and should have awaited a reply from the State party on the fundamental issue of expulsion by an abolitionist State to a State where the expelled individual runs the risk of capital punishment, since the terms in which the problem of article 14, paragraph 5, is couched will vary depending whether the answer to the first question is affirmative or negative.