The phrase "forbear from" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to refrain from or avoid doing something. Example: "The doctor advised me to forbear from eating processed foods to improve my health."
The worry here is that Locke holds that the objects of volition are actions or forbearances, so the man would need to be described as willing to forbear from falling.
I couldn't forbear from taking a photo of them, as I thought they looked rather wonderful".
Cabinet members suggested an amendment, urging "those emancipated, to forbear from tumult".
The best way to prevent future holocausts, I believe, is not to forbear from Holocaust comparisons; instead, it's to make sure that those comparisons are meaningful and substantive.
And the expectation of "white solidarity"—white people will forbear from correcting each other's racial missteps, to preserve the peace makes genuine allyship elusive.
In habeas cases, federal courts will forbear from overturning state court convictions simply because constitutional errors occurred; they will intervene only when the state courts were unreasonably wrong.
I'd like to think that somewhere in the great upstairs my rabbinical forbears from Vilna are smiling on this occasion.
"When markets are competitive, consumers are better off when the government forbears from intervening and allows private parties to negotiate and enter into voluntary agreements," the agency's commissioner, Ajit V. Pai, said in a statement.
The singular achievement of the present government has been to appoint new "overseers of the poor", although it forbears from using this term, which dates from the 16th century, when it designated the administrators and distributors of poor relief.
'They want to get back to basics.' While this is not the first time that young people have wanted to get back to the land, this current generation has advantages over their forbears from the Sixties and Seventies many of whom embarked on a new kind of life only to find it impossible to survive.
If the FCC appropriately forbears from the Title II regulations that are not needed to implement the principles above — principles that most ISPs have followed for years — it will help ensure new rules are consistent with incentives for further investment in the infrastructure of the Internet.
