Word: refrains
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...should dissociate itself with the Brattle Square Nativity display in keeping with the Rhode Island ruling and the blunt First Amendment stipulation prohibiting government activity "respecting an establishment of religion." Designed to prevent Congress or municipalities from advocating a particular spiritual belief, that passage clearly requires a city to refrain from even tacit endorsement of the Christian faith...
...Common Market's expansive subsidies for agricultural products prevented the GATT participants from reaching any consensus on the specifics. Instead the GATT signators united only on the need to deter the increasingly tempting use of protectionist measures for solving national economic woes. Consequently, they grudgingly committed their countries to "refrain from taking or maintaining" import curbs...
...basic role of government should be to refrain from interference with individuals, except to protect them from force and fraud." Shipman told the nine students who gathered at Burr Hall...
...streets again in the wake of the Aug. 31 riots, when five died in bitter clashes with security forces. Taking no chances, the government had already bivouacked hundreds of extra riot police in downtown Warsaw hotels, but most citizens heeded the advice of Solidarity's underground leaders to refrain from violence...
...issues. Apparently seeing the potential listening public among the growing ranks of the unemployed. Joel begins The Nylon Curtain with "Allentown," an upbeat ode to those who are out of work in the Pennsylvanian factory town. Joel sprinkles insincere comments about broken American promises in between the vacuous refrain "And we're living here in Allentown." "Iron and coke and chromium steel," Joel chirps cheerily...