Sentence examples for refrained as from inspiring English sources

But France has refrained, as others have, from committing planes over Syria.

"I was invited to go and see the Germans myself but refrained as I thought they might not be able to resist a general," he wrote.

Congreve continued: "I was invited to go & see the Germans myself but refrained as I thought they might not be able to resist a General".

During that session, de Mistura briefed the council by video conference, but diplomats said he refrained, as he has repeatedly, from directly blaming one side or the other for the demise of the Geneva talks.

As long as the Israeli military refrained from activity in Palestinian-controlled territory, he said, Palestinians would not attack Israeli citizens on the other side of the boundaries erased when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 war.

According to a notary who recorded the strange proceedings, the historian and naturalist Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti used a knife to slice off several fingers, a tooth and a vertebra from Galileo's body as souvenirs but refrained, it appears, from taking his brain.

For the past twenty years, the C.D.C. has largely refrained from investigating gun deaths as a public-health issue; although the agency tracks them, it was forbidden by Congress, in 1996, from spending money to "advocate or promote gun control," and the effects of that measure have lingered.

There is a widely-held belief in Syria and abroad that for much of the conflict, the Assad government and the group that evolved into IS refrained from attacking each other, as each benefited from each other's presence.

This was the first totalitarian announcement this year that refrained from pointing out that the spokesman had been just as patient as it was possible for any human to be but had finally been driven to diciplinary measures by somebody else's pigheaded refusal to be nice.

In Mississippi, Mr Musgrove conspicuously refrained from inviting national Democrats, such as the presidential candidates, to drop in.This hardly augurs well for the Democrats in next year's presidential election.

And it is enshrined in our Constitution (which at least refrained from using the words "merciless savage" to describe Native Americans, as is found in the Declaration of Independence).