"I have refrained for months from suing Jeffrey Chodorow," an owner in the companies that brought the suit.
The mushroom clouds and the utter annihilation at ground zero impressed us enough to have refrained for the past 70 years.
North Korea said the test was a satellite launching and has refrained from testing for several years.
The protesters at the cathedral today included members of Voice of the Faithful, a fast-growing group of lay Catholics that has refrained from calling for the cardinal's resignation and has concentrated on trying to establish dialogue with him.
Although King thus far has refrained from pushing for shifts in science policy, that should change after national elections, which the current Labour government is widely expected to win.
The White House has refrained from calling publicly for Mr. Mubarak to step down, officials have said, because it worries about losing leverage and contributing to a political vacuum in Egypt, which could be filled by extremist, anti-American forces.
Bush administration officials say that Jemaah Islamiyah fits all the criteria to be listed as a terrorist organization, but the United States has refrained from doing so for fear of destabilizing Indonesia politically and making life more difficult for President Megawati.
Given all this – and with general elections due in one year – it may be no surprise that the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, has refrained from campaigning decisively for "yes".
Zervos, for her part, has refrained from speaking to the media since the Inauguration.
