Sentence examples for refrain from recognizing from inspiring English sources

Last week, Patriarch Ilia of Georgia appealed unsuccessfully to Mr. Medvedev and Mr. Putin to refrain from recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.

He also insisted that the United States refrain from recognizing the government of the Soviet Union until it recognized property rights and other elements central to capitalism.

As new money is being handed to financial institutions all over the country, banks refrain from recognizing the true value of their loan books.

Israel's effort to further expand its settlement network throughout the occupied Palestinian territory comes after pleas to the international community to refrain from recognizing the newly formed Palestinian unity government went unheard.

Many countries in the hemisphere have refrained from recognizing Mr. Lobo's government because it came to power with an election held under a government installed by a coup last June.

The U.S. has long refrained from recognizing Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, saying it was a matter to be decided in peace negotiations.

Sweden's allies within the 28-nation European Union have mostly followed the U.S. lead in refraining from recognizing Palestine before its borders are defined through negotiations with Israel.

We conduct list experiments on a large sample of households to estimate the incidence of clientelistic vote buying, as well as the extent to which respondents refrain from openly recognizing this behavior.

For this reason, despite the unequivocal signal for this sister-group relationship, we refrain for the moment from recognizing this clade with a higher taxonomic name.

Only one other conscience right is legally recognized, to refrain from participating in assisted reproduction.

Norris refrained from opening fire, recognizing this would compromise the covert mission and that they were outgunned.