Sentence examples for has mostly refrained from from inspiring English sources

The king perhaps realized that he was digging himself deeper, because this month the regime has mostly refrained from beatings.

China has mostly refrained from sabre-rattling since the election last year of Taiwan's new president, Chen Shui-bian, whose party has always inclined towards Taiwanese independence.

But he has mostly refrained from employing these attacks in recent months.

Previn has mostly refrained from giving media interviews since she married Allen in 1997, when he was 62 and she was 27.

The news media have mostly refrained from continuous war coverage, which has allowed near-normal amounts of ads to appear.

Since I am just a cat, and not even from your planet, I have mostly refrained from speaking up.

Despite protests upon his return to Iran by hardliners, conservative voices have mostly refrained from criticism because the president is assumed to have the support of Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.

For the three decades before the financial crisis, governments mostly refrained from meddling in the economy.

But the Shiites, who are in charge of the government and security forces, mostly refrained from a violent response.

By then, he was in demand on both sides of the Atlantic, though he mostly refrained from Americanising his accent.

Joan's defense in the face of her inquisitors is largely mute: when she is asked to describe Saint Michael — who, she blasphemously claims, has appeared to her — she mostly refrains from verbal response, her silence bespeaking holy understanding greater than theirs.