desistformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Abstaining and refraining
abstain
abstain from something
abstainer
abstemious
abstemiously
cut
desist
disengagement
finger
forbear
forbearance
give up
play hard to getidiom
pull
pull back
step
step back
stop
touch
truck

Examples of refraining

refraining

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

A possible reason for this assumption is the difficulty of distinguishing between doing and refraining, with regard to medical technology.
If monetary policies are accommodating, real-wage restraint is feasible as long as the confederal leadership understands the importance of refraining from making radical inflation-compensating demands.
A study of nonresonant electron diffusion refraining from ensemble substitution is performed.
This measure consisted in the therapist refraining from using any instrument to record or note something during the hour of treatment.
There is a proviso: that her refraining from acting or allowing acts to be performed upon her does not significantly harm her.
These people value it by refraining from obstructing the normal working of democratic states or by writing pamphlets about its advantages. 67.
The questions also concerned their reasons for being vaccinated and their arguments for refraining from vaccination.
For example, a woman may obviously plan to have, and actually have, intercourse while refraining from using contraceptives in order to have a desired baby.
Some suspect that moral obligations to the patient extend only to refraining from the former, not the latter.
First-order reasons are reasons for action or reasons for refraining from action.
Were we not free in refraining from neglect of our duty, our supererogatory actions would not have this double merit.
In this context, efficient production hinged on the tenant/sharecropper refraining from various acts such as: abandoning the land, altering crop rotations, and removing manure and straw from the land.
Self-control may be characterized as accepting some short-term deprivation (as in refraining from an addictive drug) and thereby obtaining some larger, long-term good (health and well-being).
And it might seem plausible that holding this belief unreflectively is less than fully rational, and deliberately refraining from subjecting it to critical scrutiny a violation of one's epistemic duties.
Yet a silent obituary, refraining from marking this life, would have missed the uncommon opportunity for public acknowledgement of the life of a person with dementia.
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