Sentence examples for refrain from turning from inspiring English sources

My then teenage son requested I refrain from turning up to his football matches in knee-high compression socks and short shorts, but mostly they were all supportive.

The United Nations and Western governments have been urging the Kyrgyz government to refrain from turning over any of the survivors to the Uzbek authorities, who have been condemned for their use of torture.

Because I refrain from turning on and off lights on Shabbat, the mounting darkness threatens to instill a murky gloom on the empty house.

At first, I assumed this was just some villager out walking and refrained from turning round.

But the movie wisely refrains from turning these pangs of desire and regret into shrill melodrama.

The Democrats, meanwhile, choosing to portray the Florida recounts as calm, methodical civic rituals, have largely refrained from turning out their grass-roots supporters in full force.

Against his will he develops an attachment to a new widow (Samantha Morton) that the movie wisely refrains from turning into an instant happy ending.

She was so conscious of her Adam's apple that she tucked her chin down, to conceal it, and refrained from turning her head, looking to the side with only her eyes.

Inclusion of multiple stakeholders during guideline development, evidence reviews that are fully available for scrutiny before a guideline is finalized, and refraining from turning the release of new or updated guidelines into media events [ 14] may also help.

Despite their conservative views on most policy issues, candidates like Perdue, Kingston, Cotton, and Thom Tillis, the speaker of North Carolina's state assembly, who a couple of weeks ago was chosen to take on Democratic Senator Kay Hagan, will surely refrain from trying to turn this year's election into a jihad against modernity.

Hence, one wonders what type of endgame the Turks have in mind, which might simply be to keep Assad's Alawite regime bottled up while praying ISIL refrains from turning on Turkey.