Mr Netanyahu said in a televised address that Palestinian militants "presumed that I would refrain from acting forcefully against them.
I can certainly refrain from acting on my desire, but that doesn't mean the desire is no longer there.
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Ascribing such duties potentially infringes the liberty persons otherwise enjoy to act and refrain from acting as they see fit so long as they do not affirmatively harm others.
Another distinction exists between a command addressed by legislation to the citizen, requiring him to act or to refrain from acting in a certain way, and a direction addressed to the administrative authorities.
They allow us to compartmentalise, to be conscious of the issues when there is little that we can do about them, and to forget them at the moment when we have the capacity to act (or to refrain from acting).
A second problem is that God always does what is best, so God cannot refrain from acting on his judgment of what is best, and thus acts necessarily, which Clarke claims is a contradiction (D 83 86, W 571 573).
Given the federal indifference, California cannot be expected to refrain from acting on its own to address global warming.
To give effect to human rights, the courts may make orders requiring authorities to take action, or refrain from acting in breach of the Human Rights Act.
116 But before it can be determined that an agency actually has a practice or policy to refrain from acting, there must be evidence of its adoption by the agency through some affirmative action establishing it as the practice or policy of the agency.
To those UN agencies, relief organisations and development groups working in crisis zones from Afghanistan to Aceh, any "non-constructive" criticism, especially the kind that implies that it might have been better to refrain from acting at all, is so much nihilist piffle.
