Sentence examples for strictly refrain from inspiring English sources
The commission made wide-ranging recommendations that it said would help speed up reconciliation and urged the military and its leaders to "strictly refrain" from involvement in politics.
"We asked Algeria to put human lives first and asked Algeria to strictly refrain," the chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, quoted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as telling his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmalek Sellal, by telephone late Thursday.
Early the next morning, he sent a one-sentence cable to all military-intelligence sections in the province: "You are requested to instruct your agents to strictly refrain from opening fire indiscriminately and killing people".
"In our charter it says we refrain strictly and completely from all lobbying groups and activities affecting abortion legislation".
Despite the fact that traditional Jewish law considers the devices forbidden on Passover — strictly observant Jews refrain from using any sort of electronic device on holidays, as they do on the Sabbath — dozens of versions of the Haggadah are now available in digital formats, where enhancements to the text include pop-out windows and videos meant to bring alive the story of the Exodus.
Patients were strictly instructed to refrain from using toothpastes or toothbrushes other than the ones provided to them.
He also strictly enjoined his followers to refrain from the prevailing Hindu practice of suttee (self-immolation of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre).
So I usually refrain from taking my cue on the state of the economy strictly from how the stock market reacts to anything.
Strictly speaking, the formulation is in the reference placement; however, by assuming small deformations we refrain from distinguishing between reference and current placement.
"We commit to a ceasefire and to refrain from any use of armed force for any purpose that does not strictly constitute counter-terrorism," they said in a joint, 10-point statement.
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