Sentence examples for to refrain from acting from inspiring English sources

Another distinction exists between a command addressed by legislation to the citizen, requiring him to act or to refrain from acting in a certain way, and a direction addressed to the administrative authorities.

They allow us to compartmentalise, to be conscious of the issues when there is little that we can do about them, and to forget them at the moment when we have the capacity to act (or to refrain from acting).

Given the federal indifference, California cannot be expected to refrain from acting on its own to address global warming.

116 But before it can be determined that an agency actually has a practice or policy to refrain from acting, there must be evidence of its adoption by the agency through some affirmative action establishing it as the practice or policy of the agency.

In Delaware, in a parallel lawsuit brought by Frederic V. Salerno, Viacom's lead independent director, a judge also ruled that the case could proceed and cleared the way for a medical examination of Mr. Redstone "in a dignified way," while cautioning Viacom's lawyers to refrain from acting like "attack" dogs.

To those UN agencies, relief organisations and development groups working in crisis zones from Afghanistan to Aceh, any "non-constructive" criticism, especially the kind that implies that it might have been better to refrain from acting at all, is so much nihilist piffle.

Ascribing such duties potentially infringes the liberty persons otherwise enjoy to act and refrain from acting as they see fit so long as they do not affirmatively harm others.

To give effect to human rights, the courts may make orders requiring authorities to take action, or refrain from acting in breach of the Human Rights Act.

That is, in MBCT, patients are taught to carefully observe every arising thought, label it as a thought, try not to judge it and refrain from acting on it compulsively.

We are not talking about an 8-year-old here; we are talking about a college student, someone surely old enough to be expected to make reasonable judgments about what might be upsetting or painful to another person, and then refrain from acting purely on impulse.

No reader should act or refrain from acting on the basis of any information presented herein without seeking the advice of counsel in the relevant jurisdiction.