And while the songs refrain from committing outright confession, many, like "Hand Me Down" or "Baby Bird," open themselves to a personal reading.
She asked writer David Seidel to refrain from committing his screenplay to film until her passing, as it was too painful for her to watch.
Malatesta warned that the syndicalists aims were in perpetuating syndicalism itself, whereas anarchists must always have anarchy as their end and consequently refrain from committing to any particular method of achieving it.
King has called homosexuality "the downfall of society" and once wrote that AIDS could be cleansed from America, "if this nation's current purveyors of perversion would refrain from committing sodomy".
When Grotius found it difficult to persuade various kinds of rulers to refrain from resorting to war or committing cruel acts during the war by means of secular norms either by natural law or law of nations, he did not hesitate to resort to "law of God," mainly taken from the Old Testament, or "law of love" and other similar norms taken from the New Testament.
One way I practice being curious, is to commit to refrain from reacting (or exploding) for a period of time, it might be a day, an hour or perhaps for the duration of a difficult conversation.
But France has refrained, as others have, from committing planes over Syria.
The text of the new agreement says: "The Greek authorities commit to refrain from any rollback of measures and unilateral changes to the policies and structural reforms that would negatively impact fiscal targets, economic recovery or financial stability, as assessed by the institutions".
Notably, the Eurogroup statement also says: "The Greek authorities commit to refrain from any rollback of measures and unilateral changes to the policies and structural reforms that would negatively impact fiscal targets, economic recovery or financial stability, as assessed by the institutions".
"To that end, we are requesting that CBS right now commit to refrain from using the name of the Washington professional football franchise in its broadcast, because that name is a dictionary-defined racial slur," the letter reads. .
According to a letter sent to the Giannoulias campaign by the woman's attorney, Bobby Burchfield, Kosmas "would not commit to refrain from repeating the situation" and the woman was "knocked on her shoulder" as she walked past him.
