Eisenhower himself provided an affidavit for the defense stating that the order had been issued and then withdrawn, but he carefully refrained from stating whether he would have approved or cancelled any reprisal order.
Not only do people like Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, refrain from stating which specific national interest such stifling behavior might serve, they do not even deem it necessary to attempt to defend their abjuration of a fundamental American liberty.
In his written report, Admiral Clark noted that the Navy's investigation was not authorized to assess the accountability of those in the chain of command beyond the Cole itself, and he explicitly refrained from stating his own judgments.
Maybe those journalists should also refrain from stating their opinions at dinner parties.
Scientists may accept or reject a theory based upon the evidence provided, but scientists tend to refrain from stating that they believe in a theory.
However, the providers refrain from stating whether the customer can configure partially a perimeter firewall this way or a hypervisor-based firewall.
In this case, however, we lack a set of documents to corroborate the current allegations, so we'll refrain from stating that the full CNET report is correct in every aspect.
Rising women leaders from government, companies, non-profits and multilateral agencies were asked to refrain from stating their titles, and instead were asked share what it is that they love to do... outside of work.
5) You should refrain from stating "it is prohibited in Kv channels by the tight coupling of activation to the voltage-controlled gating process".
Because of the complexity of this issue and our still-limited data, however, we have refrained from stating outright that C-MAD2 is more thermodynamically stable than O-MAD2.
