Sentence examples for the refrained from inspiring English sources
verb
To hold back, to restrain (someone or something).
Along with the refrained cry of "he's a rascal", this sound is emanating from studio three.
At the same time, many members of the public refrained from criticizing the Mbeki government because they worried about being accused of lack of patriotism or even racism.
Chung Mong Joon, an independent candidate for the presidency who is drawing level with Mr. Lee in the polls, refrained from making a statement on the North Korean program.
The public refrained from holding protests during the elections.
The Bank of England refrained but will probably continue tightening policy this summer.
Participants were fasted overnight for the screening and the clamp, and refrained from physical exercise on the day before the clamp, and before and 2 days after the skeletal muscle biopsy.
But for all the expletives they threw at the government, many refrained from joining the protesters.
Most of the fiction of the former Soviet Union, which either glorified the regime or refrained from criticizing it, was dull and unreal, and the same can be said of Communist fiction elsewhere.
Some expressed support for the mayor's handling of the case or refrained from criticizing him.
Last week Mr. Tsipras likened the relationship between Greece and the euro zone to that between Russia and the United States during the Cold War, when both had nuclear weapons that could destroy the other but refrained from firing them.
