Word: refraining
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...students were released without bail from Charlestown District Court this afternoon. The court ordered the protesters to refrain from being arrested again before their cases are heard...
...that require putting a hand holding a sharp instrument inside the body, a definition covering most surgical and dental activities. These operations carry the greatest risk of exposure to contaminated blood. The proposals call for such workers to be tested for HIV infection and, if they prove positive, to refrain from performing invasive procedures unless they have the informed consent of the patient or are faced with an emergency. The new policy would be voluntary, but medical institutions, already skittish about potential | lawsuits, could be expected to pressure their staffs to submit to testing and dismiss those who turn...
...years ago. It takes a great deal of courage for a woman who has been raped to go public with her story and there is no reason to silence someone because they choose to exercise there legal right to go to court. Ordering the woman and her attorney to refrain from discussing the case violates their rights and those of the press and the public, who depend on their perspectives to gain a complete understanding of the court proceedings...
...involved in secular matters, including politics, to the detriment of their priesthood. Whenever a papal teaching was questioned, Jesuits always seemed to be in the thick of things, whether the topic was birth control, homosexuality or female priests. Soon after he became Pope, John Paul picked up Paul's refrain, denouncing the order's "regrettable shortcomings...
...think the fact that the chief's a woman plays any negative role with the rank and file," says Mark Clark, president of the city's largest police union. "She worked her way to the top. She never had anything given to her." The same refrain is heard during a gripe session with beat cops at a police station in a rough neighborhood. To them, Brown was anathema, an outsider, but Watson is almost family. About the harshest assessment of Watson came from a sergeant: "When she was a patrolman, she couldn't ride the streets...