Sentence examples for refrain from deciding from inspiring English sources

As a procedural doctrine, the principle of restraint urges judges to refrain from deciding legal issues, and especially constitutional ones, unless the decision is necessary to the resolution of a concrete dispute between adverse parties.

A number of situations were described where one or more of the above mentioned reasons for ordering involuntary treatment were present, but where contra reasons could still make the psychiatrist refrain from deciding in favour of involuntary admission.

Justice Stevens said for the majority that Michael A. Newdow's lack of legal custody of his daughter, coupled with the desire of the child's mother to have her continue reciting the pledge, meant that the lower courts should have refrained from deciding the case.

The Heller decision expressly refrained from deciding that issue, leaving intact 19th century Supreme Court case law holding the Second Amendment applicable only to Congress.

Wisely deciding to refrain from rapping our knuckles with greenhouse gas statistics and Al Gore-style pie charts, the filmmakers fashion a portrait of a conscience spurred to action by an unexpected opportunity.

These include not only PND, followed (or not) by TOP or accepting the risk, but also deciding to refrain from having children, adoption, using donor sperm or eggs, and PGD.

In 1863 they decided to refrain from disciplining those who exercised the franchise.

Rather, the committee decided to refrain from making that determination until some of those uncertainties abate.

For that reason, it said, it decided to refrain from ordering that the notice be published on the front page.

Because of those remaining difficulties with a project approved last year by Parliament, officials have decided to refrain from a groundbreaking ceremony.

When Mr. West decided to refrain from solemnizing marriages and open a dialogue with Eliot Spitzer, the state's attorney general -- who said what the mayor had been doing was illegal -- volunteers organizing further same-sex marriages quickly moved out of the Village Hall and into LeFevre House, the bed-and-breakfast owned by Mr. Clement and his male partner.