Although the conservatives tried to block Telegram, the Rouhani administration stood up to pressures and refrained from blocking the Internet.
Camera flashes glinted as the group lumbered slowly along with Mr. Strauss-Kahn, loudly urging one another to make space and to refrain from blocking colleagues or competitors.
For example, he says, broadband companies would refrain from blocking or slowing the content of competitors.
Cashman said the Yankees have not told Cervelli to refrain from blocking the plate, as the San Francisco Giants have done with their catcher, Buster Posey.
Critics there contend that when Mr. Medvedev was president, he should never have given in to pressure from Western countries last year to refrain from blocking the United Nations resolution that established a no-fly zone in Libya, which the critics assert led to the NATO airstrikes that helped topple Colonel Qaddafi.
For example, while the state can refrain from blocking such endeavors, women themselves must develop new "alternative emancipatory imagery" (Meyers 2002, 168), and fashion new ways of being a woman and new kinds of relationships through experiments in living (Cudd 2006, 234; Cornell 1998).
Member States should not only refrain from blocking the SRSG-CAAC's efforts to engage with these groups, but should actively encourage such engagement by the SRSG-CAAC as well as NGO actors.
Finally, in 1971, in an effort to improve its relationship with mainland China, the United States refrained from blocking the Assembly's vote to admit the People's Republic and to expel the Republic of China Taiwann); there were 76 votes in favour of expulsion, 35 votes opposed, and 17 abstentions.
Looking back, Republicans could have refrained from blocking Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland, which remains a shocking exercise in raw political power.
Take the cards out of your wallet, cut them up (or freeze them in a block of ice), and refrain from applying for any new credit lines.
Kindly turn off your cellphones and refrain from flash photography.
