Why has Syrian government TV refrained from showing its usual lurid images of the casualties?
The museum also hasn't refrained from showing its Warhols, Oldenburgs, and Lichtensteins.
So when your husband or wife finally decides to give it a try, refrain from showing off.
But to me there's always been something a little misplaced about the belief that movies give people bad ideas, and its logical extension that directors should thus refrain from showing particular kinds of scenes in their movies.
Many may steer wide and refrain from showing or selling protected material.
Asked whether editors should refrain from showing the video, the spokeswoman said: "That is a judgment for editors to make".
At the conclusion of the first of the nocturnes, the audience did not know whether to applaud - should they perhaps treat the nine as a set and dutifully refrain from showing their appreciation until the end?
Kushner and Spielberg largely refrain from showing the famous speeches and give us the political schemer, the persuader, the teller of bawdy barnyard stories, the gentle father and husband, and the fiercely insistent leader who will not accept a Confederate surrender without the absolute abolition of slavery.
As thousands of police officers fanned out on Friday, the Massachusetts State Police asked local and national television networks to refrain from showing any live video of police movements, and for a time the Federal Aviation Administration restricted news helicopters from hovering above the area where one of the suspects was believed to be hiding.
NBC's golf producer in the 1980s, Larry Cirillo, told ESPN he asked his cameramen to refrain from showing Stewart, going so far as to threaten their jobs if they gave him air time.
Chet Forte, ABC's former director of Monday Night Football, told the Los Angeles Times in 1991 that Stewart "got to be a terrific distraction... it was very annoying seeing this guy waving signs and all". NBC's golf producer in the 1980s, Larry Cirillo, told ESPN he asked his cameramen to refrain from showing Stewart, going so far as to threaten their jobs if they gave him air time.
