Sentence examples for refrain from establishing from inspiring English sources

Vivendi also agreed to refrain from establishing a pay television service to rival Canal Plus in France.

In Ottawa, the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, joined in the chorus of those asking the alliance to refrain from establishing its own regime.

Here, for the first time in my life, I had to refrain from establishing any physical contact and showing the most natural sign of human compassion.

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.

In interviews as they prepared for an American-supported unity conference in London that begins on Saturday, the dissidents said they would not be bound by American recommendations that they refrain from establishing either a provisional government or a national assembly.

The draft U.N. resolution calls on all countries to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.

One of the problems has been that the government of India has so far refrained from establishing an open constructive dialogue in U.N. fora on this issue, whereas other countries like Nepal have a different attitude — the latter has welcomed the draft U.N. Principles and Guidelines for Effective Elimination of Discrimination based on Work and Descent.

The U.S. EPA has refrained from establishing a date by which aircraft would be required to use unleaded fuel [AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) ePublishing staff 2010].

Critics there contend that when Mr. Medvedev was president, he should never have given in to pressure from Western countries last year to refrain from blocking the United Nations resolution that established a no-fly zone in Libya, which the critics assert led to the NATO airstrikes that helped topple Colonel Qaddafi.

Public health recommendations are that children have an established bedtime routine and refrain from caffeine consumption and from sleeping in bedrooms with televisions [ 35].

As was their policy elsewhere, the conquerors refrained from using an established city such as Alexandria as their capital; instead, they founded a new garrison town (Arabic: miṣr), laid out in tribal quarters.