Sentence examples for refrained to from inspiring English sources

Contrary to what realists would have predicted, Japan has so far refrained to exercise international force or proactively counter military threats of North Korea or China.

I awoke this morning to impassioned howls of fury - from many who had refrained to comment on the Bland case.

Virtually everyone significant in his life he met while up at Oxford, from a young Murdoch stopping him in the street to ask his advice about whether he should buy a student magazine (Rees-Mogg counselled against it and Murdoch refrained) to Margaret Thatcher, whom he helped to elect as president of the Conservative Association.

The physicians refrained to sign the consent or participate due to concern of such evaluation being used against them during their promotions and contract renewal.

Because there was substantial heterogeneity in study design, duration of follow-up, statistical measure of effects, clinical outcomes and threshold, we refrained to perform a quantitative analysis of the available data and carried out only a systematic review.

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Outside the region, when the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was destroyed by US-led NATO forces in 1999, China was refrained enough to prevent the incident from escalating to a major confrontation with the US even though its sovereignty was clearly being infringed k.

But Shakespeare, Dickens and numerous other top-tier writers hardly refrained from attempting to appeal to popular audiences.

In the most recent Republican debate, the other candidates not only refrained from trying to hurt Carson but seemed eager to help him.

Other media outlets - including the BBC - refrained from publishing them to avoid causing offence to their audiences.

In a trip to Turkey this month, President Obama praised the two countries' efforts to overcome their differences and refrained from using the word "genocide" when pressed to reiterate his position on the matter.