Sentence examples for refrains from inspiring English sources

Although Lee has met Lenny Henry to hear his views on the lack of diversity in UK broadcasting, she refrains from making any direct criticism of the industry.

I hear the same refrains from my colleagues.

If Piketty is right, there are big political implications, and the beauty of the book is that he never refrains from drawing them.

And state government now works properly; budgets pass on a simple majority rather than a two-thirds vote, and big Democratic legislative majorities make it easy to get things done.Refreshingly, Mr Brown refrains from overselling the recovery he has overseen.

Syria's Kurds have done rather a good job of governing themselves more generally (helped by the fact that Mr Assad refrains from bombing Kurdish areas as he does zones held by mainstream Sunni Arab rebels).

Their goal has been to trick the body into thinking that a foreign organ is really a native one, so that its immune system refrains from rejecting the foreigner.

China does not have the means to project its power anything like as close to America's shore, and shrewdly refrains from suggesting that it would like to.But some Americans worry that China could make a cold war with America a self-fulfilling prophecy by trying to acquire more of the trappings of a global military power.

The press is much freer, as long as it sticks to exposing corruption or criticising particular policies, and refrains from attacking top leaders or the communist system.

The chants were well rehearsed refrains rather than spontaneous outbursts.Every year, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution draws crowds of tens of thousands to rallies across the country.

The SEC says it will require that disclosure "be provided in plain English", but refrains from saying who will be the arbiter of that.Obfuscation is rife in three areas in particular pensions, perks and deferred pay and the SEC addresses all of them.

But nothing like ready, he refrains from adding, to join the European Union soon.A general election is due by next April, a presidential one a few months later.