This was the first totalitarian announcement this year that refrained from pointing out that the spokesman had been just as patient as it was possible for any human to be but had finally been driven to diciplinary measures by somebody else's pigheaded refusal to be nice.
In his design for the Chapel, Hardenbergh attempted a "restrained approach to Gothic architecture" that refrained from the excesses ("fripperies") of typical examples of Victorian Gothic.
Participants were fasted overnight for the screening and the clamp, and refrained from physical exercise on the day before the clamp, and before and 2 days after the skeletal muscle biopsy.
They allowed themselves to be intimidated by Fascist rhetoric; justifiably horrified by the First World War, they wanted to give pacifism a chance, and so refrained from the flag-waving displays of aggression that might have revealed their true strength, while hoping, despite his proclamations to the contrary, that Hitler might be satisfied with smaller, regional conquests.
Last month, Mr. Greenspan told Congress that the Fed was no longer worried about deflation and conspicuously refrained from using the word "patient".
Both the NEA and NEH had remained publicly optimistic and refrained from what the agencies termed "speculation" on federal appropriations for 2018. .
Until now, the two had circled each other warily and largely refrained from direct attacks, often using surrogates instead.
Of these, all eight plant poisoning victims, seven pesticide poisoning victims, and two sani powder poison victims have survived, one victim of insecticide died, and one refrained from providing any information requested by us due to social stigma.
The language of the decision referenced the experience of US states where the practice was legalized and generally refrained from using the word "suicide" to describe the conditions under which it should be allowed.
There is a widely-held belief in Syria and abroad that for much of the conflict, the Assad government and the group that evolved into IS refrained from attacking each other, as each benefited from each other's presence.
