Sentence examples for had always refrained from inspiring English sources

A week after Qatar's bid was accepted, the highly idealistic F. C. Barcelona, which had always refrained from paid advertisements on its jerseys, turned up with a $40 million contract to advertise the Qatar Foundation, a philanthropy.

Although it had qualities "not brought out in any other book," Pantheon had "always refrained from doing books of this kind," meaning books about the Holocaust, he wrote to Borchardt.

Postscript: In an earlier post, I wrote that Djokovic has always refrained from doing an impression of Federer.

His forceful defence of the agency is significant because in his six years as agency chair, Smith has always refrained from criticising ministers.

(Cosby has always refrained from swearing on stage, while Murphy was known to use the word "fuck" hundreds of times in an hour-long show).

The current commissioner, Bud Selig, who operated the Brewers in those days and was a major force in the owners' labor efforts, has always refrained from discussing collusion, as recently as yesterday.

I have always refrained from buying/selling LTC before or after my major tweets, but this is something only I know.

Indeed, Henry had not always refrained from worldly pleasures; as a young man, he had fathered an illegitimate daughter.

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.

The common refrain about their matchups had always been that they resulted in less-than-riveting tennis, but what was once sisterly competition has become a full-fledged rivalry.

This was the life I had always wanted to live, and I had a great fellow-feeling for Uncle Earl as the lawyer took up the refrain.