Power went on to call for increased humanitarian access in Yemen, but refrained from answering the question posed to her by several reporters: whether or not the US supported an investigation of the sort that Zeid called for.
Although he refrains from answering the question of whether these "responses" are in fact deep organs of communication with the nature of things — reporting only that they seem to us to be so — in his later writings, such as Varieties of Religious Experience and A Pluralistic Universe, he confesses, and to some degree defends, his belief that the question should be answered affirmatively.
You ask the members of your team for constructive feedback in an area outside of their expertise or about the performance of another department or peer, and you find the reluctant leaders will refrain from answering the question.
The 76 teenage brides were more likely than the others to have a coital frequency below seven times a week (23.3 versus 14.8%) as well as to refrain from answering the question on coital frequency (16/76 versus 7/129).
From the Think-Aloud Protocols we found that one of the three doctors who refrained from treatment questioned the diagnosis of angina pectoris and two suggested that weight reduction should be further encouraged before starting drug treatment.
Am I right?" This time Steve refrained from speaking, because the question was clearly aimed at Tommy.
Philo, however, refrains from pressing the question of intelligibility; he is more interested in building an even stronger case against Cleanthes' inference to God's benevolence.
A common complaint about science fiction is that it promises more than our world's humdrum reality ever delivers a refrain summed up in the question: "Where's my flying car?" But change happens in small, incremental ways, and it can catch us off-guard if we pay insufficient attention.
However, outside interviews, the observer equally refrained from asking questions but simply joined in conversations that people were holding.
The question about refraining from dental visits was: "Have you during the past three months, considered yourself in need of dental care, but refrained from seeking care?
