refrain

Hence the refrain: What the hell do you think you are, soldier?

You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was.

I would urge readers to refrain from the kneejerk reaction 'it's happening all over now'.

I'm going to refrain from commenting on her abilities.

If I refrain from artificially boosting my follower count, but you don't, I lose and you win, and vice versa.

Most pilots kept up the refrain that a computer cannot safely fly by gps and gyros unless they also have airspeed.

If you haven't launched something close to this complicated, you should refrain from suggesting this isn't much of an effort.

If we both refrain, we both benefit, albeit only from the real work we put into organically growing our followers.

Do I refrain from introducing disruptive technologies because they might actually disrupt the lives of others?

If neither of us refrain, the numbers become increasingly meaningless and we're left with no way to demonstrate our credibility.

I'd like to humbly request that popular science articles geared toward the general public refrain from using the word "theory" in the non-scientific sense.

And I strongly doubt his "ability" to pull that off... I would imagine someone so competitive and successful and career-focused with that little sleep would not refrain from relying on a little chemical "help".

How is this contentious at the end of 2011 unless you're just hating Dart for the sake of it?I haven't looked into the language yet and unless you haven't either let's all refrain from judgements based on this silly metric alone.

Third, it undermines genuine gender equality - if people are concerned about their criticisms being perceived as sexist they will refrain from open and honest critique which is the hallmark of colleagues and equals.