Sentence examples for refrained it from inspiring English sources

They believed that "if she refrained, it might be taken ill".

According to a notary who recorded the strange proceedings, the historian and naturalist Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti used a knife to slice off several fingers, a tooth and a vertebra from Galileo's body as souvenirs but refrained, it appears, from taking his brain.

CICT works on the principle of delaying the conflicting read operations to refrain it from falling in the unsafe period.

This misunderstanding of the process of science leads to the commonly heard refrain, "It's only a theory"—nothing more than an unproven idea.

So, if it is logically impossible for someone to have infallible knowledge that Jones will mow the lawn and for Jones to have the power to refrain, it is no imperfection in God if he lacks such knowledge.

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

He refrained, but it's all about having the option.

You shouldn' t do it, or refrain from it, for me.

While Israel has an abundant history of liquidating enemy leaders by pin-point attacks, for years it has refrained from doing it.

As the mournful flutes of its theme tune give way to that queasy mariachi refrain, it all comes flooding back.

Then comes the refrain, "It ain't no secret..