Sentence examples for refrained out of from inspiring English sources

Ms. Derksen had wanted to shave her head for years but refrained out of fear of how her "conservative" family would react.

Trump said Tuesday that he considered mentioning the former president's marital infidelity at Monday's debate, but refrained out of respect for the couple's daughter, Chelsea Clinton.

They refrain out of a sense of fairness or loyalty or friendship, particularly in small offices, or because of a realization that if wages were cut, workers would reciprocate by dragging their feet on the job.

In the past year, I thought about relaying this little observation in a blog post and have refrained, somewhat out of fear of being subpoenaed or otherwise assisting the Justice Department in a case that I profoundly don't believe in.

He wants to do something his predecessors had refrained from out of fear of provoking the North: join an American-led operation to crack down on the North's suspected illicit arms trade.

But he had refrained from dropping out of education after being forcibly enrolled in an after-school homework club, done well in his GCSEs and had no intention of abandoning his university career for music.

Cost was the reason the Dodgers and other teams refrained from live broadcasts of out-of-town games (or, in the case of Mr. Allbright, of any games).

It was so magical, I was almost moved to yoik, refraining only out of respect for Sami tradition and reindeer eardrums.

Decades before Rebecca Solnit's work inspired the "mansplaining" meme and Sheila Heti made a refrain out of "he's just another man who wants to teach me something," in her novel How Should a Person Be?, Allen understood how destructive men's urges to educate and shape women could be.

Two Republican senators, Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico and John W. Warner of Virginia, opposed the budget and were on the Senate floor for the roll call, but refrained from voting out of deference to two Democrats who were absent because of illness: Senators Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia and Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.

MR. GORE -- The last four presidents in both political parties have purposely refrained from spelling out the details of what kinds of circumstances would trigger a direct military action on the part of the United States in the Taiwan Straits.