Sentence examples for I refrained from doing from inspiring English sources

I'd ordinarily read a prayer for a safe journey but, being aware of how religion has sadly become synonymous with terror in the eyes of many, I refrained from doing so.

Yet, how could I refrain from doing so?

"There's not a day that goes by where I am not asked to attack her on that issue and I have refrained from doing that," Sanders said.

And yet, there's one thing I've refrained from doing so far — writing TechCrunch posts on my phone.

Postscript: In an earlier post, I wrote that Djokovic has always refrained from doing an impression of Federer.

For fear of ridicule, your columnist has refrained from doing so.

That subsequent generations refrained from doing so was, Freud suggested, due to a collective bad conscience.

Ms. Megawati had refrained from doing so, apparently out of fear of upsetting Islamic groups.

And third, it should push the chaebol to expand into services, which they have diplomatically refrained from doing.

It mainly refrained from doing so even during the depths of the global financial crisis in late 2008 and early 2009.

Although the Turks have launched a handful of directed offensives, they have so far refrained from doing too much damage.