Sentence examples for refrained from attending from inspiring English sources

Many refrained from attending communal prayer; some left the congregation.

Brown had refrained from attending most regents' meetings; Reagan made a point of attending and often held press conferences that turned the meetings into media spectacles.

This year, to add further insult, most Western leaders have refrained from attending the celebration, a decision that many Russians will see as confirmation of their continued struggle against the West.

However, Brahimi and officials traveling with the government delegation said the top members had refrained from attending Saturday's sessions only because the head of the opposition's delegation, Ahmad al-Jarba, also did not attend.

In later years, Levitt, always fiercely defensive of her private life, refrained from attending launches of her work or giving interviews about it - although she did emerge to speak to the New York Times in 2002, and seemed as curious as ever about the world outside.

Teller himself refrained from attending the test he claimed not to feel welcome at the Pacific Proving Grounds and instead saw its results on a seismograph in the basement of a hall in Berkeley.

Patients have been discouraged from attending.

Overcrowding is preventing children from attending school.

Women across the nation took Wednesday off, refrained from shopping, dressed in red and attended rallies to bring attention to their economic clout and the discrimination they face in the workplace and beyond.

So long as he made a few conciliatory gestures and refrained from another chemical attack, he would be able to hang on to at least some of his chemical weapons.

In the current study, we evaluated whether women who did not re-attend the national screening programme after a false-positive referral, underwent surveillance mammography outside the screening programme, or refrained from repeated mammography at all.