Sentence examples for refrain from performing from inspiring English sources
"At times it is appropriate to refrain from performing certain acts of obedience," he said, "in order to avoid the hardships of others".
If the way to obtain food is to refrain from performing a particular response, then that is what the law of effect says the animal should do.
In addition, the American Society of Clinical Oncology urged its members to refrain from performing PET, CT and radionuclide bone scans to check for cancer spread in patients with early prostate cancer or early breast cancer at low risk for metastasis.
Privileges and claims define what Hart called "primary rules": rules requiring that people perform or refrain from performing particular actions (Hart 1961).
By contrast with an altruistic action, there is no personal incentive to 'cheat', i.e., to refrain from performing the action, for doing so would directly reduce personal fitness.
For example, the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), a law passed in 1980 to prevent government burdening Americans with unnecessary forms, causes federal agencies to refrain from performing customer development and gathering user feedback the way a private sector startup might.
Three decades ago, in his film "Ludwig van," Mauricio Kagel suggested that the world could best pay homage to Beethoven by refraining from performing his music for a year.
Morris recognizes, apparently, that the primary sense in which an agent is free in performing an action requires that the agent either (a) could have refrained from performing that action or, at least, (b) could have refrained from causing his decision to perform that action.
We refrained from performing optical imaging experiments within 7 days after surgery, and from repeating optical imaging on identical animals at an interval shorter than 7 days.
Memories were recalled while participants either performed rapid eye movements (following the experimenter's hand movement as in EMDR) or finger tapping or simply refrained from performing any dual task whatsoever.
We refrained from performing an ANOVA because most of the data did not show a Gausian distribution.
