Sentence examples for refrained from customary from inspiring English sources
The White House refrained from customary congratulations.
A1 Bush Snubs Schröder After Win Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who narrowly won re-election on Sunday in part by opposing an American war in Iraq, scrambled to try to patch up relations with Washington, but President Bush refrained from making the customary congratulatory telephone call to the German leader.
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who won narrow re-election on Sunday in part by opposing an American war in Iraq, tried today to patch up relations with Washington, but President Bush broke with protocol and refrained from making the customary congratulatory telephone call to the German leader.
Typically, Wasserstein refrained from commenting.
He refrained from visiting Yasukuni.
Israel refrained from direct retaliation.
That child refrained from lashing out.
585 persons refrained from participating.
We refrained from calculation of summary scores.
Hitler refrained from getting involved.
