"refrained from providing" is correct and usable in written English.
Example sentence: The government refrained from providing financial assistance to the struggling business.
Of these, all eight plant poisoning victims, seven pesticide poisoning victims, and two sani powder poison victims have survived, one victim of insecticide died, and one refrained from providing any information requested by us due to social stigma.
This resulted in NHS staff tending to be suspicious of requests for information and data, and who then delayed or refrained from providing requested information.
To help further minimize conflicts, JPMorgan refrained from providing financing for the deal.
But the group has refrained from providing full-scale assistance in the running of the prison and has repeatedly urged the authorities to improve conditions.
But they refrained from providing details about the path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that they favor, saying it would be "premature" to be specific when the thorny issue is still being discussed at the White House and by bipartisan groups of lawmakers in the Senate and in the House of Representatives.
We have therefore refrained from providing exact kWh for Incineration.
Bank of Japan policy makers left interest rates near zero and refrained from increasing money supply, resisting pressure from the government to loosen credit after the economy shrank in the first quarter.
Cuomo, meanwhile, has not only refrained from yelling, he's barely had to leave his office.
It's as if Sullivan — a busy but undistinguished director — had decided to leave everything up to Shakespeare's dialogue and refrained from actually directing the characters who inhabit "Midsummer" 's spirit world.
The president, in fact, pointedly refrained from repeating that formula.
The demonstrators, in turn, mostly refrained from hitting officers.
