Sentence examples for tend to refrain from inspiring English sources

It's cheaper, she says, "and I tend to refrain from plastic".

His request for anonymity is quite specific: he explains that when posing for photographs, he wears shades; though many people know his real name, including those he has photographed (and the police in countries where he has been arrested), they tend to refrain from divulging it because he wouldn't be able to work as freely as he does if it were made public.

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.

European commissioners tend to refrain from publicly using words like "disgrace" and "shocking" about EU member states, especially about a big founder member state.

However, in recent years, they tend to refrain from acts this extreme.

This study also suggests that the increase in the number of female physicians could impact certain specialties where the percentage of female physicians was originally small, and which both male and female new physicians tend to refrain from choosing.

As we predicted, these covertly prejudiced people tended to refrain from shocking the man who was confirmed as gay, but delivered extremely high levels of shocks to the man who liked shopping.

Anderson Cooper tends to refrain from giving Pat Robertson much attention on his CNN show, but on Wednesday the televangelist earned a spot on Cooper's "RidicuList" for spouting a ludicrous theory about gay men spreading AIDS to unsuspecting victims using sharp rings.

This was something that had been underestimated and partners tended to refrain from saying something when they were afraid of not using the right words or expressions.

In addition, the study ended up with moderate response rate of 89% and is presumed to be contributed by patients who were not on ART as they tended to refrain from taking part into the study in claim that they did not have time.

Consumers who generally (i.e. outside the context of the incident) prefer to drink water straight from the tap also tended to refrain from buying bottled water, with many of them choosing to get water from family/friends in unaffected areas.