Sentence examples for ability to refrain from inspiring English sources

Tonight, the administration was extremely concerned about the Israeli government's ability to refrain from retaliation.

Their saving grace is a sort of baseline decency, an ability to refrain from the tawdrier kinds of greed.

In a statement, Cerberus said: "The decision validates the Cerberus affiliates' specifically negotiated ability to refrain from proceeding with the proposed transaction.

Shin-ae, after all, has no idea what horrors await her in Miryang, and Mr. Lee has a remarkable ability to refrain from foreshadowing.

The best war correspondents, Hammer said, have "a sense of compassion but an ability to refrain from sentimentality; a capacity to live for long periods in tough conditions without comforts".

Some have credited Manager José Mourinho's newfound ability to refrain from generating excess drama, although it remains to be seen if Mourinho's good behavior merely stems from time away from coaching against Barcelona.

In particular, the brain disease model holds that the brain changes associated with repeated drug use impair autonomy and restrict addicted persons' ability to freely refrain from using drugs [ 3].

But I do not think it is beyond our ability and virtue to refrain from substituting character assassination for spirited and respectful debate".

In an age when neither political office nor Ph.D.s nor media pulpits are guarantees of basic human decency -- such as the ability to speak with courtesy, to refrain from delusion and ugliness in criticism, to respect the word and the airwave (or digital bit-byte as the case may be) -- to be led by a President who stands tall as a decent, intelligent human being is a worthy thing in itself.

The Core Spores apparently control different mental and psychological functions; when they're cast out of the Core, the animals lose their ability to talk, or to remember, or to refrain from eating one another.

Hartshorne is adamant that nothing is gained by endowing God with the ability to create non-creative actualities or to refrain from creating altogether.