Sentence examples for were refraining from inspiring English sources

Mr. Busin also said the rebels were refraining from using heavy weaponry to avoid civilian casualties.

Other sectors, like higher-end department stores, were refraining from heavy promotions, said Ken Perkins, president of Retail Metrics, a research firm.

Karen Evans, the chief information officer for the U.S. government from 2003-09, said most cloud service companies had been reluctant to give ironclad, verifiable guarantees that they were refraining from mining government data in the cloud.

Egyptian and Assyrian documents of a much later date than the supposed exodus clearly mention the Hebrews, and archaeology shows that the inhabitants of inland Palestine, which is now the occupied West Bank, were refraining from pork by about 1000BC, while the people nearer the sea, in what is now Israel, were happily eating pigs.

MISSING TEMPERED EXPECTATIONS Executives acknowledged buyers were refraining from purchases because of "rumors and speculation" around the iPhone 5.

Once, Frank was showing our apartment to potential new tenants so my roommate and I were refraining from smoking weed inside.

In LISA and INMA children were refrained from eating or drinking one hour before the measurement.

Subjects were refrained from taking medications the two weeks preceding the study day, with the exception of rescue medications.

"So for now we are refraining from sending them.

But the national Democratic Party is refraining from intervening in primaries.

Laguens said: "Police are refraining from listing a motive.