Sentence examples for it has refrained from inspiring English sources

So far it has refrained from exporting its crude oil or natural gas, but exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will start this year.

So it has refrained from aggressively pressing its case publicly.

Facebook has said recently that one reason it has refrained from issuing public statements about its involvement with governmental authorities (such as Google does with its Transparency Report) is because the existence of FISA would make such statements incomplete.

But since her election, it has refrained from attacking her.

In other instances, it has refrained from publishing accusations it could not corroborate.

While Israel has an abundant history of liquidating enemy leaders by pin-point attacks, for years it has refrained from doing it.

It had refrained from opening a brand-new community center, built before the housing bust, because it couldn't pay to staff the place.

In response to accusations from opposition and environmental groups that his government, which had known the actual number since the summer of 2008, had participated in covering it up to save face, Stelmach asserted that it had refrained from making the higher number public for fear of jeopardizing its investigation of whether Syncrude had violated any provincial regulations in the incident.

There was part of me that didn't want to get involved in the discussion at all because I wanted the news about it to end so that the singer in question could just forget about it and move on (I have refrained from using her name in my articles to spare her yet another google hit with her name and this topic).

"To date, I have refrained from advising anyone," he wrote.

As noted, it's true that Trump has refrained from bashing Planned Parenthood, and also not jumped on the bandwagon of GOP orthodoxy in other ways either.