Sentence examples for forborne from inspiring English sources

China's growing military capabilities and the wild card of North Korea threaten Japan and, less so, South Korea, American allies that have thus far forborne from becoming nuclear-weapons powers.

She said the orchestra owed it $1.2 million for rent and labor, although Kimmel had "forborne" payments of $650,000 from this season, meaning it had put off any decision on whether or not to demand payment.

But, being part of a nominally Labour administration, one might have expected he would at least have forborne to blame the most wretched victims for their own sufferings.

Were the seekers at Esalen on to something, or should they have forborne to shock native American puritanism with too much free love and LSD, which began to seem like hypocritical self-indulgence and just more of what Kripal calls "a stunning array of misogynistic metaphysical systems" that indulge male sexuality and control women?