Sentence examples for refrained from spending from inspiring English sources

The city kept the money, though it refrained from spending it after the judge in the case warned not to.

Romney raised $56 million during 2011, more than double the amount raised by any of his Republican opponents, and refrained from spending his own money on the campaign.

One of the three primary donors to Cruz's presidential efforts, a private equity manager who recruited the other two top donors, has refrained from spending the vast majority of his $10 million contribution to bolster the Cruz campaign.

For the past twenty years, the C.D.C. has largely refrained from investigating gun deaths as a public-health issue; although the agency tracks them, it was forbidden by Congress, in 1996, from spending money to "advocate or promote gun control," and the effects of that measure have lingered.

That won't stop shoppers from spending.

But when markets reacted to Mr. O'Neill's comments by anticipating a decline the dollar's value, he retracted his comments and has since largely refrained from speaking about currency values at all.

In Mississippi, Mr Musgrove conspicuously refrained from inviting national Democrats, such as the presidential candidates, to drop in.This hardly augurs well for the Democrats in next year's presidential election.

The president, in fact, pointedly refrained from repeating that formula.

Until then, the government had conspicuously refrained from cracking down.

The demonstrators, in turn, mostly refrained from hitting officers.

The public refrained from holding protests during the elections.