Sentence examples for refrain something from inspiring English sources

Bob Dylan's song Ballad of a Thin Man includes the refrain: "Something is happening here/But you don't know what it is/Do you, Mr. Jones?" Like many Dylan songs, its literal meaning is opaque, yet it seems appropriate as a descriptor of the changes afoot in the C-suite, in 2014 and for years to come.

He writes that the song became the anthem of an in-group, "disgusted by the old, excited by the new ... elated by their discovery of others who shared their feelings", with its refrain "Something is happening here/ But you don't know what it is/ Do you, Mr Jones?" epitomizing the "hip exclusivity" of the burgeoning counterculture.

It is one thing to refrain from something rather inconsequential, like eating meat, out of legitimate concern for the scruples of another.

These are basics that clarify genetics and make it understandable so that it can be translated to patients in relation to diagnosis or treatment or to advise them to refrain from something, smoking, for example".

This was something that had been underestimated and partners tended to refrain from saying something when they were afraid of not using the right words or expressions.

The word "secured" suggests an effort to obtain or achieve something: this can be read in contradistinction to a mere duty to refrain from doing something.

The patient couldn't refrain from saying something sarcastic to the receptionist on his way out.

Its failure would lead many to dismiss the idea and refrain from trying something similar for a while.

He won't refrain from doing something he's able to do just because it's bad for the environment.

They include affirmative covenants, which require the landowner to make payments, provide services, or render some other performance, and negative covenants, which require the landowner to refrain from doing something.

Here's an example I like to use to demonstrate why that's the wrong approach: If you see someone with spinach in their teeth and you refrain from saying something because you don't want to embarrass them, you've set them up for more embarrassment as they go about their business.