Sentence examples for refrained from overt from inspiring English sources

He himself refrained from overt comment.

Mr. Lazio refrained from overt attacks today, since he came to the Huntington Hilton here in Suffolk County, his home base, to briefly praise a program sponsored by HUD, the Community Development Corporation of Long Island and Fannie Mae, the federal home financing agency.

Israel has been trying to persuade the United States and Europe to refrain from overt condemnation of or sanctions against the military-led regime in Cairo.

She brought her daughter to the workshop so they could try to shake off their grief, and now describes herself as "feeling 30 years younger".Many of the women asked that the adaption should refrain from overt political references, despite the similarities to the situation in Syria.

Shin and others on the political left in South Korea tend to argue that despite North Korea's failings, it is more productive to refrain from overt criticism.

The nobles often possessed considerable musical knowledge, but they refrained from paying overt attention to what the musicians were doing.

The US government was aware of these activities in Cambodia, but refrained from taking overt military action within Cambodia in hopes of convincing the mercurial Sihanouk to alter his position.

Perhaps stung by critiques of ecocentrism in "Lasso the Wind," his 1998 book about the New West, Egan here refrains from making overt parallels between the false environmental steps of the 30's and the false steps of today.

It doesn't work," she says, refraining from any overt reference to her husband's personal foray into that realm five years earlier with then-fiancée Jennifer Lopez, together co-starring in the poorly-received films Gigli and Jersey Girl.

"Attorney General Cuccinelli needs to take his responsibilities seriously in this process and refrain from his overt and extreme partisanship," he said.

Lastly, some studies do not ensure that participants refrain from producing overt speech when asked to generate only inner speech (reviewed in Indefrey and Levelt, 2004).