Sentence examples for refrain from crackdowns from inspiring English sources
MOSCOW — After weeks of rising tensions, a few thousand people gathered here on Sunday to protest ethnic violence and to call on the authorities to refrain from crackdowns that would curtail Moscow's diversity.
But despite insistent calls for him to refrain from using violence against demonstrators, he suggested that the security forces would continue the crackdown.
With a severe political crackdown under way, independent activists say security officials have ordered them to refrain from any public form of commemoration.
Just refrain from testing?
Iraqi Shiites refrain from retaliating.
The crackdown on Wednesday came in the face of warnings and pleas to the junta from around the world to refrain from the kind of violence that had made the country's ruling generals international pariahs.
He planned to refrain from the latter.
He may refrain from provocations in Georgia.
First, refrain from hype.
If not, refrain from posting.
To refrain from lecturing.
