I refrained from voting.

Beyond new frigates and security guarantees, however, Southeast Asian leaders have refrained from reacting too strongly to China s offshore ambitions.

Indeed, even Cuba s supposed allies in the region refrained from urging Santos to invite Castro.

This is why he refrained from naming the political parties that support him after himself.

Nevertheless, China has refrained from attacking him, making clear that it wants him to return eventually.

Levin flushed with annoyance, not at being beaten, but because he had not refrained from the dispute.

Many activists rightly pointed out, however, that Modi refrained from mentioning the term LGBTQ in the tweet

During a Franco German Russian summit in St. Petersburg, he explicitly refrained from criticizing the US and Britain.

Indeed, the Qatar based negotiations highlight why the US political leadership has deliberately refrained from decapitating the Taliban.

Shielded behind a protective China, Kim Jong il launched his rocket anyway, and the US refrained from action.

For the most part, they have even refrained from denouncing the perpetrators, clinging to a sham neutrality or taking shelter in the fog of imperfect information.

Middle Eastern dictators were showered with money and arms if they refrained from attacking Israel and kept the Islamists down.

Until now, Russia has refrained from selling advanced military equipment to Pakistan, in order to avoid damaging its relationship with India.

On the other hand, the Kremlin has refrained from international adventurism, and rather consistently supported the US in its war on terror.

Global Voices received nearly 100 photos but refrained from publishing the most graphic ones as they are available on Noor's Twitter profile.

But, crucially, the US has refrained from intervention in Bolivian politics, because it understands that undermining the current government could lead to chaos.

For the most part, Indian journalists have refrained from commenting on Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family's involvement in the Panama leaks, which is significant given India and Pakistan's testy relationship.

Even at the peak of diplomatic tensions with Iran, Turkey refrained from adopting America s more maximalist position, which challenged the validity of Iran s right to enrich uranium.

The party actively supports Putin, but refrained from appearing in televised debates, possibly because it has no charismatic leaders of its own who can excite the public with sharp polemics.

The Saudis certainly have an interest in supporting this last ditch American attempt for an Israeli Palestinian peace, especially now that, for the first time ever, Israel has refrained from opposing an arms deal between the US and Saudi Arabia.

In the past, many believed that the driving force of censorship was mainly political and that people could enjoy online freedom as long as they refrained from commenting on current affairs.

This is why he refrained from naming the political parties that support him after himself. Instead, he set up dozens of parties that aim to elect pro_Kuchma figures to Parliament by stealth.

During his twenty months as CCP General Secretary, Zhao created a culture in which the Politburo refrained from interfering in the courts, and he stopped its attempts to control literature and the arts.

The local Muslim leaders in the person of Chief Imam of the Atyrau region Nurbeck Yesmagambet promptly refrained from any sort of terrorists and explained that extremists only use Islam as a cover.

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From Hitler's attempted eradication of Europe's Jews to the Rwandan Hutus' extermination of the Tutsi in 1994, policymakers balked at intervening politically, economically, or militarily to obstruct such targeted destructions of minorities. For the most part, they have even refrained from denouncing the perpetrators, clinging to a sham neutrality or taking shelter in the fog of imperfect information.

Making matters worse, the US has continually refrained from using its substantial leverage to compel Israel to change course, owing to the domestic political strength of the pro Israel lobby, especially the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

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