Sentence examples for refrain from confrontation from inspiring English sources

Some Lebanese Sunnis have gone to fight alongside Syria's rebels; others have been inspired to act at home.The army tries to refrain from confrontation.

It was that way for Lewis in nearly every stadium he visited this past season, fans yelling crude comments like "Murderer!" and "Killer!" But Lewis remained focused, tried to refrain from confrontation.

But so far, it has largely refrained from open confrontation with the demonstrators.

He also said he would refrain from discussing his continuing confrontation with the Yankees and Major League Baseball, and if he is asked about it, he will end the interview.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday passed a resolution calling on all sides in the confrontation to refrain from violence and work toward a peaceful resolution.

In the early days of the Russian takeover, the Crimean Mejlis, the Tatars' ruling council, urged them to refrain from public remarks, so as to avoid confrontation, but as the tensions deepened it had become more difficult.

Take William Hague, who asked the Egyptian authorities to refrain from violence because "now is the time for dialogue, not confrontation".

The west, meanwhile, should engage with Russia in a new "rules of the game", to refrain from establishing new forward military bases, and from introducing nuclear weapons "as more central tools of the confrontation", a thinktank report urged on Monday.

"It is essential to refrain from any comments or actions that could be misinterpreted by the Syrian sides, push them to continue armed confrontation or lead them away from talks," the statement ended.

Iraqi Shiites refrain from retaliating.

He planned to refrain from the latter.