Sentence examples for refrain from lecturing from inspiring English sources
Until Mexican officials are prepared to respect the "fundamental rights" of illegal immigrants in Mexico, they should refrain from lecturing American officials.
If the series can refrain from lecturing us on methane and choreograph a sufficiently enticing dance between these four characters, Dallas might succeed as more than an exercise in nostalgia.
To refrain from lecturing.
He lifted the Obama-era curbs on weapons sales for the war in Yemen, he refrained from lecturing them on human rights and he seemed happy for his son-in-law Jared Kushner to forge an exceptionally close working relationship with Saudi Arabia's all powerful Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
And from the viewpoint of many poor countries, especially in Africa, co-operating with China both economically and politically—has many advantages: not least the fact that China refrains from delivering lectures on political and human freedom.
When deputy prime minister Bülent Arinç lectured women to refrain from laughing in public in an Eid al-Fitr address last week, women and men took to social media in protest.
When I talk to people who seem to follow the same practice, it's all I can do to refrain from giving little unsolicited happiness lectures.
Do you refrain from voicing questions about authority figures like politicians for fear of getting a long, boring lecture?
Just refrain from testing?
Iraqi Shiites refrain from retaliating.
