Sentence examples for could have refrained from inspiring English sources

And Norton, the judge, could have refrained from sending Whalen to jail.

At least he could have refrained from talking up share prices, if unintentionally, through his enthusiasm for the new economy.

Was it so unreasonable to think, at the very least, that they could have refrained from falling out over money before Sala's body had even been brought to the surface?

If God knows about your free action, then God knows that you will freely do something and that you could have refrained from it.

Morris recognizes, apparently, that the primary sense in which an agent is free in performing an action requires that the agent either (a) could have refrained from performing that action or, at least, (b) could have refrained from causing his decision to perform that action.

Chisholm mentioned further data (which he presented in the first person): (1) I have various beliefs, feelings, desires, attitudes; (2) I have a body; (3) I am intentionally bringing about various things that I could have refrained from bringing about.

Could they have refrained from harming him after what they did to me?

Theoretically one could estimate this excess mortality rate, but we have refrained from doing so due to the risk of including too many uncertainties.

Some parents have refrained from vaccinating their children after rumours spread that the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine could cause autism.

Western aircraft have refrained from targeting fleeing loyalists.

In the meantime, West Brom have refrained from punishing Anelka.