Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fragile agoraphobe with a Valium dependency, but he seems to find plenty of reason not come home on time. He is careerist enough consider a move to Washington, D.C., despite his wife's objections, but also has enough belief in his Mormon ideals as to request that his boss refrain from taking the Lord's name in vain...
...exceptional to [set up restrictions] but there is a process to make decisions like that," he said. "I think we have to be open to the possibility that we want, for reasons of institutional policy, to refrain from certain investments...
...time still considered by most to be a dangerous terrorist), Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi, as his comrades-in-arms. It was a statement that raised more than a few eyebrows and prompted Mandela's handlers to suggest that, in the future, he refrain from moving too far from scripted statements...
...this regard: the inside-joke content of the already-mentioned "I-76" and "Lay Down The Law" is one indication, while the trite societal criticism of "200 Years" and "Yeah, It's That Easy" is another. "200 Years" (referring to the U.S. bicentennial) starts off with a chanted refrain of "the emperor wears no clothes" and turns into an incoherent criticism of government dishonesty. "Yeah, It's That Easy" treats the issue of race relations with similar heavy-handedness. And unlike "This Ain't Living," a similarly conceived song from the first album, there isn't enough musically to rescue...
...move is virtually unprecedented, and attorneys for the plaintiffs, finding their flow of evidence effectively stanched, are claiming that all this presidential privilege is in violation of their right to sue. The Justice Department (in a familiar refrain) says that Clinton has done nothing wrong...