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But Dowd refrains from any pontification on the conflict-of-interest; she trusts her readers to spot a moral problem when they see one.
The author explicitly refrains from examples of nomination, in code names, code-numbered names, anonyms, pet names, name-changing, and other onomastic oddities in this material (p. 285).
The interviewer notably refrains from asking any hard questions about, say, the 200,000 Ugandans thought to have died under Amin's rule.
He refrains from gloating.
USAT somehow refrains from calling it a "dress" rehearsal.