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It said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon had made only "vague declarations condemning genocide wherever it may be" and that Sharon had refrained from mentioning the Serbs, "as though both sides were massacring each other."
By threatening to blackmail Jones, the president's lawyer managed to make his client look guilty as hell, enrage the feminists who had refrained from criticizing Clinton until then, and incite editorial boards around the country, while doing nothing to bring Jones' lawyers back to the settlement table.
On the other hand, perhaps the author deliberately refrained from using this title, since he is not a professional lexicographer and his “dictionary’ has every mark of an amateurish piece of work.
But that wouldn't be the case if the parents of those potential children also refrained from reproducing.
As Leonard Cole, author of The Eleventh Plague , has observed, Saddam Hussein refrained from using his vast chemical stockpile during the Persian Gulf War not because he feared retaliation in kind , but because he feared retaliation of comparable, or greater, magnitude . (Gen.