"If we refrain from voting, if we let disappointment and protest speak, we will miss the chance for peace," he says.
A lot could go wrong with this ploy, and we at the Cartoon Lounge have a lot of strong opinions about this, but our lawyers have told us that it's best if we refrain from comment at this time.
Generalizing to today, de Botton continues, "If we refrain from questioning the status quo, it is -- aside from the weather and the size of our cities -- primarily because we associate what is popular with what is right".
So if we refrain from such theft, we cannot explain or justify such refraining by reference to any actual natural motives.
The ground for this reason does not rely on a comparison with how well off the person or other people would be if we refrain from bringing the person into existence or acted differently (but see Harman 2004, 101 102; McBrayer 2008, 304; Woollard 2012).
We will all become closer to achieving peace - as Israelis, Palestinians or concerned members of the international community - if we refrain from intransigence and instead take all perspectives into account.
If this information is unknown, we refrained from mentioning this detail.
The next question is whether there would have been a difference in home-readiness between the groups if we had refrained from using LIA in both groups.
If we could refrain from squeezing out the last drop of punch on the upside — a temptation that Mr. Greenspan could not resist during the high-tech boom of the 1990s — fewer maladjustments would develop, and the downside would be less ominous and easier to control.
Just before a recent advance screening of "The Cabin in the Woods," a friendly publicist asked the assembled bloggers and critics if we would please refrain from disclosing any of the "reveals, surprises and uncredited performances" in the movie we were about to see.
