Refraining

Love is a horrible, debilitating disease. Some steps you can take to decrease your risk of contracting love include avoiding contact with other people and refraining from looking at attractive individuals.

I'm refraining from making any criticism.

To best manage symptoms, refraining from consuming alcohol is essential.

The Council urged the parties concerned to resume negotiations to bring about an end to the conflict within the framework of the peace process proposed by the OSCE Minsk Group, and refraining from any action that would disrupt the process.

Their refrainings from evil are members of at least one active causal chain[…]