I purposely refrained from adding the usual distinction of saying that he was from the State of Texas.

While Arnulf remained alive, the Magyars refrained from any overt acts of pillage, but with Arnulf ’ s death, they proceeded to invade Italy in 900.

Although the embargo was never officially ratified by the United Nations Security Council, most countries refrained from official trade with Burundi.

A story recounted in later sources holds that they refrained from destroying the church on seeing the magi depicted in Persian clothing in a mosaic.

Another general election was called in 1951, and the Liberals were left with just six MPs in parliament ; all but one of them were aided by the fact that the Conservatives refrained from fielding candidates in those constituencies.

Milward argued the German Reich could not fight a long war, so it deliberately refrained from arming in depth, to arming in breadth, to enable it to win a series of quick victories.

While he was known to call himself a " visitor to small wars ", he refrained from becoming involved in Vietnam, but is known to have done undocumented work for the Central Intelligence Agency.

She did remark, however, that while starring in the show she refrained from eating sweets, retaining her slimness with intense workouts and running.

When it declared devoid of canonical effect the consecration ceremony conducted by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục for the Carmelite Order of the Holy Face group at midnight of 31 December 1975, the Holy See refrained from pronouncing on its validity.

Abraham Kuyper notes some " disagreeable aspects " to her character — that she should not have agreed to take Vashti's place, that she refrained from saving her nation until her own life was threatened, and that she carries out bloodthirsty vengeance.

The exclusion of all but one god was a radical departure from Egyptian tradition and some see Akhenaten as a practitioner of monolatry rather than monotheism, as he did not actively deny the existence of other gods ; he simply refrained from worshipping any but the Aten.

He seems to have been a part of the members of the covenant, a close-knit, urban community of Christians that had ' covenanted ' themselves to service and refrained from sexual activity.

In the great affair of the Union in 1707, while protesting against the completion of the treaty till the act declaring the Scots aliens should be repealed, he refused to support the opposition to the measure itself and refrained from attending parliament when the treaty was settled.

In Greece, Britain and the United States supported the anti-communists in the Greek Civil War and suspected the Soviets of supporting the Greek communists, although Stalin refrained from getting involved in Greece, dismissing the movement as premature.

While severe circumstances have at times called for desperate measures to preserve life, even the most savage tribes have refrained from cannibalism.

Under American advice ( by American envoy John Kenneth Galbraith who made and ran American policy on the war as all other top policy makers in USA were absorbed in coincident Cuban Missile Crisis ) Nehru refrained, not according to the best choices available, from using the Indian air force to beat back the Chinese advances.

Determined to offer the repeal to congress that Monday but reluctant to act without Pierce ’ s commitment, Douglas arranged through Secretary of War Davis to meet with President Pierce on Sunday even though Pierce generally refrained from conducting any business on a Sunday.

Recently Timothy Williamson has refrained from using the word and expressed concern that it might be misleading:

" In 1984 Friedman stated that he has " never refrained from criticizing the political system in Chile.

Although there is no proof Shapur I was a Manichaean, he tolerated the spread of Manicheanism and refrained from persecuting it in his empire's boundaries.

Van Buren was not an orator, but his more important speeches show careful preparation and his opinions carried weight ; the oft-repeated charge that he refrained from declaring himself on crucial questions is hardly borne out by an examination of his senatorial career.

When the vote was taken, enough of the majority refrained from voting to produce a tie and give Calhoun his longed-for " vengeance.

She refrained from actively taking part in government.

In public statements, he has denied the charges, but on legal advice has refrained from giving specifics.

At the end of the exhibition, the painting was awarded a gold medal by the judging panel, yet they refrained from giving the work the greater prestige of being selected for the Louvre's national collection.

It is to note that old mesmerists refrained from giving verbal suggestions, recommending in all books a silent environment.

He addressed that such conflict would happen in the series, but refrained from giving its reasons.

Problems with his life long friend, chief of air staff air chief marshal Pervez Mehdi also risen when air chief refrained to participate or authorise any air strike to support the elements of army operations in the Kargil region.

Others see Akhenaten as a practitioner of an Aten monolatry, as he did not actively deny the existence of other gods ; he simply refrained from worshipping any but the Aten.

On several occasions he mentions that in order to keep his judgment as unprepossessed as might be with any of the modern theories of philosophy, until he was " provided of experiments " to help him judge of them, he refrained from any study of the Atomical and the Cartesian systems, and even of the Novum Organum itself, though he admits to " transiently consulting " them about a few particulars.

In August 1967 after Israel's capture of the Mount, the Chief Rabbis of Israel, Isser Yehuda Unterman and Yitzhak Nissim, together with other leading rabbis, asserted that " For generations we have warned against and refrained from entering any part of the Temple Mount.

By 1823, as a result of pressure from carriers, boats were allowed to use the navigation at any time during the week, but the company refrained from authorising use on Sundays as they could not " consent to so great a Deviation from established Custom ".

That demand became a moot point when Warner Bros. refrained from releasing any single during that time frame.

Because Karl and Maximilian were friends, Biber's former employer refrained from taking any action ; he was, however, very hurt by the composer's decision, and waited until 1676 to officially issue his release papers.

Although the Oslo accords stipulate no settlement ban, Israel refrained from building any new settlements but continued building in existing settlements at a pace which fell far short of the Shamir government's 1991-92 level.

The 4th of July celebrations in Little Rock, Arkansas were led by pro-Union speakers but they refrained from any anti-Southern speeches or actions.

He took the popular side on the occasion of the trial of the Seven Bishops in June 1688, visited them in the Tower, and led the cheers with which the verdict of " not guilty " was received in court ; but the same month he refrained from signing the Invitation to William, and publicly repudiated any share in the prince ’ s plans.

They refrained however from any action until the precedent of Ulster should have first been established while waiting for the lead to come from a " constitutional " quarter.

With passive courage Louis refrained from making any promise to the insurgents.

Now with some financial backing from the publication of Hollywood Babylon, his next film project was The Story of O ; essentially a piece of erotica featuring a heterosexual couple engaged in sadomasochistic sexual activities, although it refrained from showing any explicit sexual images.

He engaged with Huntly and Crawford in a rebellion in the north of Scotland, but their forces surrendered at Aberdeen on the arrival of the king in April ; and in July Erroll gave himself up to James, who leniently refrained from exacting any penalty.

At first, judges, most notably Peter Oxenbridge Thatcher of Boston, used " release on recognizance " or bail and simply refrained from taking any further action.

Maximilian refrained from any interference in German politics until 1607, when he was entrusted with the duty of executing the imperial ban against the free city of Donauwörth, a Protestant stronghold.

De Leonists have traditionally refrained from any activity or alliances viewed by them as trying to reform capitalism, though the Socialist Labor Party in De Leon's time was active during strikes and such, such as social justice movements, preferring instead to concentrate solely on the twin tasks of building support for a De Leonist political party and organizing Socialist Industrial Unions.

Kapoor ( who described her character as " bipolar and schizophrenic ") refrained from taking on any other projects, since she found Heroine " very aggressive and tiring ".

He refrained from punishing Dost Mohammad for the part he had taken in the Sikh War, and resolutely to refuse to enter upon any negotiations until the amir himself came forward.

The Vatican demanded that the German government dissociate itself from these remarks but agreed eventually to forget its complaints so long as the German press refrained from any further “ harping on the great victory ” achieved by Nazi Germany.