Sentence examples for carefully refrained from inspiring English sources

The president's three challengers are little-known figures who have carefully refrained from criticizing him.

He carefully refrained from making any "informed" explanation of political and economic forces in Communist China that have suddenly unloosed the flood of refugees.

One declarer was Armstrong, who in the auction shown had carefully refrained from telling his opponents that he held five spades.

But the unions carefully refrained from calling for marches or street protests, and the government had put on a show of force for some days, posting troops and security police in the neighbourhoods likeliest to break out in flames.

He declared that one of his top priorities would be to win Turkey's admission into the European Union, and he carefully refrained from spelling out any sort of Islamic agenda.

But this intrusion was in turn largely provoked by something else, the radicalisation of large numbers of Sunni Muslims, fired by ideas of a return to "pure" Islam and of uniting Muslims into a single nation modelled on the early caliphate.The most famous proponent of such ideas, Osama bin Laden, has always carefully refrained from any reference to the Shias.

RELIGULOUS Bill Maher trots the globe, talking to people about their views on religion while carefully refraining from using cheap tricks to make them look ridiculous.

Mr. Bloomberg also carefully refrains from criticizing his opponents, and repeats over and over that it is his job to make them see things his way.

The thing to do is to write out a suggested introduction to yourself, making the usual high points sufficiently to justify your presence there and the audience's, and hope that the introducer will be guided by it and will carefully refrain from hyperbole.

It should be noted, however, that Plato carefully refrains from going into any specifics about concrete mathematical relations.

This is the one that bemoans how, in spite of how good you looked, how little you talked and how carefully you refrained from texting him afterward, your date still (unaccountably) didn't ask you out a second time: It's not painful; it's just really weird.