refraining

I can tell you’ve got a longing to sally forth, a-thronging—I ask you, please refrain.

The agreement called on providers to refrain from shutting off business or residential customers who could not pay, for example, and suspended potential late fees.

Still, some political operatives doubted that companies would be able to refrain from PAC donations for long.

That advice has been a constant refrain in a pandemic responsible for more than 350,000 deaths in the United States.

Hospital leaders, front-line workers and experts condemned Ducey for refraining from imposing sweeping mitigation measures.

Where tenders are required, the government can prevent construction by simply refraining from issuing tenders.

In short, does refraining from running buses on Shabbat serve to unify the country around the symbol of the Jewish week?

In some cases, people are refraining from shaving to benefit a charity—but not the ones tied to Movember.

Refraining from vowing to him, man sustains a character no higher than the wicked who restrain prayer before God.

What had happened to her that she should be thus beside herself, and hardly capable of refraining from open tears?

Abstain′er, specially one who does not take alcoholic drinks; Absten′tion, a refraining.

She moved away, majestically as does a goddess, conscious of her power but magnanimously refraining from using it.

By refraining from the physical expression, one may at least partially inhibit the emotion.