Sentence examples for refrained until from inspiring English sources
However, except for scattered instances of returning fire across the border, we refrained until April from taking such action in Cambodia".
But while Arab states used restrictions on oil exports as a political weapon in 1956 , 1967and 1973, China has refrained until now from using its near monopoly on rare earth elements as a form of leverage on other governments.
Despite a relentless drop in the stock market value of telecommunications companies over the last year and a half, many executives have refrained until recently from acknowledging that the big bets they made on a new generation of wireless devices might have been premature.
Until then, the government had conspicuously refrained from cracking down.
Until now, the two had circled each other warily and largely refrained from direct attacks, often using surrogates instead.
In the end, they wisely refrained.
The president, in fact, pointedly refrained from repeating that formula.
The Bank of England refrained but will probably continue tightening policy this summer.
The demonstrators, in turn, mostly refrained from hitting officers.
The public refrained from holding protests during the elections.
