Word: refraining
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...latter capital that the veteran diplomatist tacked fame to his flagstaff. He asked Herr von Jagow, German Foreign Minister in 1914, whether Germany would refrain from violating Belgium's neutrality...
...type repeats. But should we pretend to want tax reduction and at the same time advocate the bonus, the increase of pensions, the German relief appropriation, the rise of Government salaries and the $100,000,000 grant to the wheat farmer, the printed word takes up the refrain at once and the impossible seems possible because it is printed...
...dead giant of industry admonished his children to refrain from quarrels, appointed their mother sole arbiter of their disputes...
...foreign affairs, France cannot evacuate the Ruhr before total payment of reparations. At home France wishes to re-establish the balance of her budget, to refrain from loans and to undertake no expenditure not covered by equivalent receipts...
...giving his reasons for the prominence and publicity attached to the actions of groups of students who have signed pledges to refrain from fighting, Colonel Browning said "Pacifism as that word is generally understood, I am inclined to think is not something that the majority of intelligent people take much stock in. The reason we hear so much about it is because the subject is put forward by what I consider an organized minority, and we don't hear anything from the unorganized majority...