The parties should refrain from any military action.

They should refrain from levelling unjustified accusations.

But we should not sit idly by and refrain from taking sides.

The parties should therefore refrain from taking measures that could undermine the initiative.

We should refrain from wearing balloons over face.

Refrain from lying.

State officials must also avoid making comments expressing satisfaction or understanding regarding paramilitarism.

To abstain from the color red, Lily tells me, is to abstain from beauty and celebration.

Iranians should refrain from leaning toward any Western school of thought and abstain from luxurious lives and other excesses.

For in order to appeal to the Court, minority groups must refrain from using violence.

You should refrain from smoking.

The plaintiff will refrain from further sarcasm.

The parties must refrain from unilateral moves that might prejudge a final status agreement.

All concerned must refrain from inciting the public to disrupt the transition and the electoral process.

I prefer to refrain from discussing religion.

But to refrain (i.e. not to discard their outer clothing) is better for them.

But to maintain modesty is better for them.

But to refrain is better for them.

Governments should therefore refrain from deliberate policies to raise birthrates, even in places where birth rates are low.

The parties should refrain from any unilateral measures that would undermine efforts to achieve a final peace settlement.

But the nuclear weapons states should continue to reduce the role of nuclear weapons, and refrain from new programs that suggest the prospect of their use.

In turn, the rebel movements should refrain from attacks on the police and on towns and infrastructure.

Can you abstain from smoking for a week?

(b) Refrain from engaging in violence against women

We agreed to refrain from smoking while we are at work.

Abstaining from violence becomes more profitable than starting a war.

States must therefore refrain from any practice of unacknowledged or secret detentions at all times and under all circumstances.

Those authorities must desist from their acts of aggression and put an end to the activities and acts of aggression perpetrated by the Jewish settlers against the Palestinians.

In conducting these negotiations, the two sides should avoid raising issues that go beyond or are inconsistent with the Declaration.

Before the United States declared war, however, it had to maintain neutrality and to refrain from supplying weapons to friendly countries, including Canada.

3. Strongly discourages smoking in the immediate vicinity of conference rooms.

(b) External Powers should refrain from military deployment in the region and dismantle bases they should assume new attitudes and obligations vis à vis the countries of the region

I had to abstain from smoking while I was in the hospital.

And that they should restrain themselves is better for them Allah is Hearing, Knowing.

But to refrain (i.e. not to discard their outer clothing) is better for them.

But to maintain modesty is better for them.

Nevertheless, if they behave modestly, it would be better for them for Allah hears everything and knows everything.

But to refrain is better for them.

Until that is in place, businesses importing charcoal from Somalia should refrain from or reduce their engagement in this activity.

The competitive advantage of TNCs from developed countries often stems from the possession of superior process or product technology that at the same time is a key ingredient to economic development (as acknowledged in the MDGs).

Both sides should refrain from propaganda in any form as well as from all manifestations that may lead to incitement to hatred or discrimination on ethnic grounds.

The developed countries must accept responsibility for this and refrain from any actions detrimental to the economic development of the developing countries.

Individual States must refrain from politicizing the human rights machinery at their disposal, in order to maintain the effectiveness of the international system.

We call upon States to refrain from all uses of force contrary to the Charter.

(a) To themselves refrain from providing any form of support to those involved in terrorist acts