Sentence examples for might have refrained from inspiring English sources

Had he been inside, he might have refrained from his recent, rather startling statement that he was "not interested in becoming a martyr".

But if the Fed really wanted in its heart of hearts to see inflation expectations up around 3% it might have said so at some point in the past five years, and it might have refrained from pulling the plug on one of its many asset-purchase plans while expectations were short of the mark.The bottleneck remains, as it has for most of the past half decade, within the Federal Open Market Committee.

Knowing that, Google might conceivably have refrained from registering its stock to avoid giving competitors an early glimpse into its operations.

The sources said that after Said Kouachi returned to France from Yemen, both brothers appeared to have refrained from any activities that might have drawn the attention of French law enforcement or spy agencies.

It should have refrained from attacking clearly civilian buildings, and from actions that might have resulted in a military advantage but at the cost of too many civilian lives.

Despite a relentless drop in the stock market value of telecommunications companies over the last year and a half, many executives have refrained until recently from acknowledging that the big bets they made on a new generation of wireless devices might have been premature.

Western aircraft have refrained from targeting fleeing loyalists.

In the meantime, West Brom have refrained from punishing Anelka.

I could have refrained from saying that.

Therefore, we have refrained ourselves from making such extrapolations.

We have refrained from discussing this in the manuscript.