Like Colonel General Ludwig Beck, Brauchitsch opposed Hitler's annexation of Austria and intervention in Czechoslovakia, although he did not resist Hitler's plans for war, again preferring to refrain from politics.
The patient and her family preferred to refrain from further systemic treatment of her cancer.
Non-responders, comprising 15% of the current sample could have affected the rates of smoking, which could have been higher, especially among female smokers who may have preferred to refrain from answering the questionnaire.
Others prefer to remain invisible.
Consumers who generally (i.e. outside the context of the incident) prefer to drink water straight from the tap also tended to refrain from buying bottled water, with many of them choosing to get water from family/friends in unaffected areas.
Anderson's reference to people who "prefer to buy their music online" carries the faint suggestion that refraining from theft should be considered a mere preference.
Mr. Bloomberg, an independent, has refrained from specifying an heir publicly, since he seems to prefer to keep Ms. Quinn, a Democrat, and other prospective candidates as compliant as possible in the two years remaining before the next mayoral election.
Despite the situation, Hulk refrained from speaking ill of Bubba at all, explaining that he'd prefer to live in the present and accept the situation as playing a larger role in his destiny.
The King James karaoke nights, common to households where long familiarity with the stories meant that everyone joined in the refrains, built a confidence with language that the educated classes prefer to imagine as their own.
