Sentence examples for refrained from pointing from inspiring English sources

As Mr. Conniff puts it: "One reason management consultants have generally refrained from pointing out the remarkable and instructive similarities in hierarchical behavior between humans and other primates is to spare the feelings of the executives who hired them".

I told her about the Forum; when she heard that we'd spent a lot of time asking one another "What's possible now?," she enthused that she was going to start asking this at the dinner table at her retirement home; I refrained from pointing out that asking the elderly "What's possible now?" might yield a frank discussion of motor skills.

Though U.S. officials seem to have largely refrained from pointing fingers at their Libyan counterparts, one consistent feature of the drip-drip of information about the Benghazi attack seems to be that U.S. agencies felt they were not getting the security they expected and perhaps needed from the host country.

5pm So cutting, sir: Jonathan Ross to Stereophonics, during a post-set interview: "Although you're a well-known band, you're sort of B-list, aren't you?" Stereophonics politely agreed, and refrained from pointing out that, in the great scheme of international TV presenters, Ross is fairly B himself.

I refrained from pointing out that the coffee she drank was promoted in conjunction with a life style that it was not, without additional funds, naturally yoked to, any more than polar bears are yoked to a certain red-canned cola drink.

He was heartbroken to find out I could not help with his cause, so I refrained from pointing out how painfully common his fetish is among white men.

He also complained about owning two houses, though did refrain from pointing out that his diamond shoes pinch.

(Perhaps out of respect for her subject, Bentley refrains from pointing out that the ur-Salome is said to have married her father).

Karl Smith, if I understand him, thinks that I should refrain from pointing out how foolish and destructive foolishly destructive ideas have been, and offer the proponents of these ideas a face-saving exit.

In deference to the current emergency, we will refrain from pointing out that when our national leaders came together following Sept. 11, the results were, all and all, worse than if they had stayed home.

Her idea that cricket is "as important to Britain's view of itself as baseball is to America's" is inflated, even if you refrain from pointing out that in Scotland, where I come from, it is not popular at all.