The duties to do no harm to living beings and to refrain from interfering with the lives of other beings ask a great deal of humans.
Lu Kang, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry, responded on Tuesday, urging the British government to "be cautious with its words and deeds, to refrain from interfering in Hong Kong's affairs and to offer no support to Hong Kong independence forces".
Science has its proper domain of activity, religion has its domain, and each must refrain from interfering with the other.
As actions speak louder than words, they should act as a role model and involve people through deeds and actions but should refrain from interfering too much (McAfee [2006]; Chui et al. [2009]).
As Prof. Randy Barnett noted, the ruling, written by Justice Kennedy, required "the government to justify its restriction on liberty, instead of requiring the citizen to establish that the liberty being exercised is somehow 'fundamental.'" This sounds like a legal version of how the Collins Dictionary defines live and let live -- "to refrain from interfering in others' lives".
We do little as a society to support the family and help women to raise healthy, happy and valuable citizens, yet we still cannot refrain from interfering in what has to be an entirely personal decision by constantly questioning the morality of abortion.
This means that when the observation method decided on is e.g. non-participant observation (fly at the wall), the researcher should refrain from interfering with the clinicians and the clinical work practice.
Wamid Omar Nadhmi, the leader of the Arab Nationalist Movement, a largely Sunni political party, said that if the American military could guarantee that it would pull back to its bases during the election campaign and if the Americans offered sufficient assurances that they would refrain from interfering in the elections, then many Sunnis, including himself, might take part.
Whilst the same obligations can be found under economic, social and cultural rights, human rights law goes further, requiring states parties to not only respect the rights (i.e. refrain from interfering with their enjoyment) but also protect and fulfil the rights by providing the means and/or substance for the right to be effectively realised (Shue 1980, 260; Eide 1987 .13.
