"government" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The government refrained from challenging any assertions in the King's abdication statement for fear of arousing further controversy.
- The government refrained from a large-scale offensive the following year.
- The government provided temporary de facto resident status for trafficking victims, and refrained from deporting them.
- During the period of the trial the government refrained from fully ratifying the treaty.
- What is so troubling is the fact that the government had the means to fix the problem all along but deliberately refrained from using them.
- Through the 1880s the government refrained from developing or selling this land, or from purchasing any more.
- The government refrained from resorting to economic populism.
- For democratic values to be promoted, however, it is vital that governments refrain from imposing censorship and I therefore welcome the provisions of paragraph 13.
- Later that year, the two countries reached an understanding that their governments would refrain from further involvement in the historical controversy.
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