Word: refrains
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...Russia must refrain from all revolutionary propaganda in France...
...greater countries are interested in the idea of better relations. The United States Senate is interested in it, from a negative point of view. The people, however, are happy to let well enough alone. "One vote more or less will make no difference"--and this has always been the refrain. But now, more and more, the attempt is being made to educate the world up to the idea of the need for better relations. Sir Harry, in his speech yesterday, was merely trying to do that...
...Manhattan, the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, target of many modernist attacks within the Protestant Episcopal Church, "called off his dogs" temporarily by enjoining all clergy of his diocese to refrain from theological controversy at the Christmas season. Both liberals and conservatives moderated the tone of their utterances or remained silent in consequence, but rumors circulated among the modernists that certain close clerical friends of Bishop Manning were violating the spirit of the truce by sending out circuar letters in an effort to repair fences and round up the Bishop's supporters for a firm stand in the post...
With regard to railroad and coal strikes, the secretary was emphatic in his defence of the Federation's stand. "The attitude of the public is not sincere in these strikes", he said. "The people insist that the workers refrain from striking in order that the supply of fuel and food may not be cut off, but at the same time do nothing to relieve the conditions against which they are striking. In effect, they demand that the workers and their children continue to be underfed and ill-housed, in order that their own babies may not lack milk...
...have neither the right nor the desire to interfere in the purely internal political affairs of any country, but we cannot refrain from expressing deep satisfaction at the prospect of seeing a devoted friend of labor, justice, freedom and democracy elected President of one of the great Republics of the Western hemisphere...