They have chided governments for doing little more than impose austerity to balance their budgets while refraining from making strategic decisions to develop more sustainable growth.
Prior to arriving at the laboratory, participants were instructed to eat a normal breakfast and drink water ad libitum, while refraining from caffeine and exposure to thermal stimuli for 12 and 24 hours prior to each session, respectively.
This constant comparison between the responses in an ongoing interview with the responses from previous subjects allowed us to remain close to the concepts encountered while refraining us from adding our personal assumptions.
Chinese leaders have repeatedly expressed confidence that Europe will find solutions to the crisis, while refraining from making firm financial commitments of support.
The execution is both brilliant and informative; information is presented in a way that eludes to actual neurological processes while refraining from overwhelming what is most likely the biggest audience of the film, kids.
Treasury should just issue periodic updates describing the progress in distributing the TARP funds and explaining what it's planning to do with the money, while refraining from any more big-picture statements on the economy.
Immediately from 1918, in the seven films he made with the exotic Pola Negri such as Carmen, Madame DuBarry and the Arabian Nights tale Sumurun, in which she leads a harem to revolt against their master, Lubitsch created complex female characters who were assertive, unsentimental and able to express their sexual desires, while refraining from offering conventional moral judgements.
After Kant, it has been common to approach the project of categories in a neutral spirit that Brian Carr (1987, 7) calls "categorial descriptivism", as describing the categorial structure that the world would have according to our thought, experience, or language, while refraining from making commitments about whether or not these categories are occupied.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is an evidence-based central behavioural technique requiring individuals to face situations that induce distress while refraining from engaging in compulsive rituals [ 9, 10].
The main benefit of the conventional approach is allowing the researcher to draw information directly from the participants while refraining from applying any theoretical assumptions or predetermined inferences about the data[ 23].
