Sentence examples for refrain from action from inspiring English sources
"The commitment to refrain from action at the [United Nations] ends after the nine-month period agreed for talks," he told reporters in Ramallah.
Though Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric, has urged followers to refrain from action until the United Nations reaches its decision, many Shiite leaders are beginning to air alternative ways of creating a government.
Mr. Greenspan may well view the downturn as painful but necessary to correct the speculative excesses of the bubble, and refrain from action as long as the plunge does not seem to be hurting the real economy.
The Dutch neuroscientist Dick Swaab, who calls free will "an illusion", does so by endorsing the definition of free will by Joseph L Price (a scientist, not a philosopher) as "the ability to choose to act or refrain from action without extrinsic or intrinsic constraints".
The draft constitution clearly states that "member states shall actively and unreservedly support the union's common foreign and security policy in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity" and shall "refrain from action contrary to the union's interests or likely to impair its effectiveness".
China's foreign ministry, meanwhile, called on all relevant parties to "refrain from action that might escalate the situation in the region".
"In particular, we call on the parties to refrain from actions that provoke further violence.
And when should taxpayers refrain from actions that will cut their bills, even if their actions are legal?
The Philippine foreign ministry said all parties had a shared responsibility to refrain from actions that could increase tensions.
Kerry's efforts have produced no tangible results so far, apart from both parties consenting to refrain from actions which could set back his efforts.
An armed society is polite, by their thinking, precisely because guns would compel everyone to tamp down eccentric behavior, and refrain from actions that might seem threatening.
