Negative rights can be respected simply by each person refraining from interfering with each other, while it may be difficult or even impossible to fulfill everyone's positive rights if the sum of people's claims outstrips the resources available.
India also refrained from interfering in the country's internal administration.
Requiring officers to refrain from interfering with speech can hardly be equated with affirmatively enlisting unwilling officers to "help" speakers.
They felt that refraining from interfering with infants' ambiguous genitalia was the first step on a desirable path to dissolving gender altogether.
The resolution from representatives of public radio stations that was presented at the recent meeting in Washington denounced the move, and called on the corporation to "refrain from interfering in constitutionally protected content decisions" and to act as a firewall to insulate public broadcasting from politics.
As actions speak louder than words, they should act as a role model and involve people through deeds and actions but should refrain from interfering too much (McAfee [2006]; Chui et al. [2009]).
The process will go considerably faster if Iraq not only refrains from interfering, but freely provides information about what has been done with the deadly ingredients it purchased before the Persian Gulf war.
Mustafa Kemal felt that the military, having gained its political ends, should refrain from interfering in politics.
Science has its proper domain of activity, religion has its domain, and each must refrain from interfering with the other.
Lu Kang, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry, responded on Tuesday, urging the British government to "be cautious with its words and deeds, to refrain from interfering in Hong Kong's affairs and to offer no support to Hong Kong independence forces".
After an emergency meeting of NATO ambassadors in Brussels, the alliance called on Russia to bring its forces back to bases and refrain from interfering in Ukraine.
