Sentence examples for pledge to refrain from inspiring English sources

Israel defines the freeze as a pledge to refrain from constructing housing except within the boundaries of existing settlements.

Mr. Davis also said the phone calls did not conflict with Mr. McCain's pledge to refrain from running negative advertisements.

But a pledge to refrain from premarital sex, the researchers found, did tend to delay the start of sexual intercourse by 18 months.

After reports that Mr. Banton signed the "reggae compassionate act" in 2007, a pledge to refrain from anti-gay songs and statements, he denied having signed it.

The anti-foot-binding ­societies recruited high-ranking families to make a dual pledge: to refrain from binding their daughters' feet, and from marrying their sons to women with bound feet.

He has adhered to his campaign pledge to refrain from requesting that employees take more unpaid days off to save money, as Mr. Daley pushed them to do for years.

Mr. Bloomberg himself, who pledged to refrain from criticizing Mr. de Blasio after leaving office, has largely kept his promise.

They also pledged to refrain from litigation until December 15th, the day after the showdown in Switzerland.Fiat claims to have no interest in renewing that truce.

Over the weekend, finance ministers from the Group of 20 pledged to refrain from devaluing their currencies to gain a competitive advantage in global trade.

Microsoft has posted a statement on its Web site pledging to refrain from mining the data that government clients enter into its Office 365 cloud service.

Nevertheless, in his inaugural interview Shaqfih pledged to refrain from violence and take steps to transform the organization into a political party.