According to Pellington, the treacherousness of the terrain surprised Pearl Jam, which refrained for six years from making another music video: "I think Pearl Jam was very, very upset that this piece about an alienated kid who killed himself was taken to be this glorified piece about a guy who shoots his classmates".
Ankola had signed an agreement with Balaji Telefilms, which refrained him from participating or acting in television shows made by other production houses that "directly or indirectly compete with Balaji Telefilms".
Isis's advance is said to have alarmed the Syrian government, which has allegedly refrained from targeting the jihadist group because of the damage it has caused to more moderate rebel forces.
And it is enshrined in our Constitution (which at least refrained from using the words "merciless savage" to describe Native Americans, as is found in the Declaration of Independence).
The Republicans were euphoric over Sarah Palin's debate performance, particularly the part in which she stood tall and refrained from falling off the stage.
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.
Honeybee queens in our experiment had no prior fighting experience on which to base their strategic decisions and refrained from engaging in a fight.
Participants pressed the button of an MRI‐compatible computer mouse with the index finger of their right (Right condition) or left hand (Left condition), or refrained from any response (No‐Go condition), depending on arbitrary cues, which were presented pseudorandomly with equal probability.
The language of the decision referenced the experience of US states where the practice was legalized and generally refrained from using the word "suicide" to describe the conditions under which it should be allowed.
Samoura, one of a new wave of appointees who claim they will reform Fifa and rescue its scandal-hit reputation, refrained from responding directly but said that May should beware of political interference – which also contravenes Fifa rules.
Tellingly, Hamas, which has called for a "strengthening and an increasing of the intifada," has so far largely refrained from firing rockets toward Israeli cities (although a handful were fired over the weekend).
