Sentence examples for refrain from this sort from inspiring English sources

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When you're negotiating on your own behalf, it's easy to refrain from this sort of gamesmanship.

I respectfully request that you refrain from this sort of enforcement in California's courthouses.

I am deeply concerned about reports from some of our trial courts that immigration agents appear to be stalking undocumented immigrants in our courthouses to make arrests... Courthouses should not be used as bait in the necessary enforcement of our country's immigration laws… I respectfully request that you refrain from this sort of enforcement in California's courthouses.

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Continued stability will require that they also refrain from the sorts of actions that might undermine such a regime.

Though China has refrained from the sort of extensive round-up it could mount if it chose to, the authorities have made a practice of returning to North Korea any migrants they catch.Such homecomings are bound to be unpleasant since, under North Korean law, unauthorised border crossings are punishable by three years in a "reform institution".

The majority of these have increasingly contained deeply distressing inaccuracies, so I have resolved to refrain from any sort of personal comment, and I propose to continue thus.

When Matthew Parris contacted him in 1995 to ask him to check whether anything in his account of it was inaccurate, he replied that he had "resolved to refrain from any sort of personal comment" and that most accounts had contained "deeply disturbing inaccuracies".

Chan called for countries to refrain from imposing any sort of travel restrictions on those Latin American countries where the Zika virus is spreading.

Despite the fact that traditional Jewish law considers the devices forbidden on Passover — strictly observant Jews refrain from using any sort of electronic device on holidays, as they do on the Sabbath — dozens of versions of the Haggadah are now available in digital formats, where enhancements to the text include pop-out windows and videos meant to bring alive the story of the Exodus.

These constraints usually take the form of categorical rules to perform or refrain from certain sorts of actions (e.g., to keep promises or to refrain from lying), regardless of the consequences.

For example, he has a general commitment to empiricism and against apriorism in philosophy which leads him to avoid familiar sorts of apriorist arguments in philosophy; and a commitment to non-cognitivism in ethics which leads him to refrain from familiar sorts of cognitivist arguments in ethics.

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