If Spock didn't know how further dialogue should proceed, he would simply refrain from responding at all.

"They just don't understand our needs," he said, "and so they should simply refrain from judging our cases and let us do it ourselves."

Simply refrain from talking and review what happened in your mind.

In the future, he'd simply refrain from mentioning Alfred to Lorena.

However, it is one matter to simply refrain from supporting the war against Iraq - and quite another matter to become a sworn enemy of America.

And for compliance to be effected, some positive accomplishment is often required, rather than simply refraining from an act.

Such injuries rarely require medical attention; the performers simply refrain from swallowing swords for a time.

However, she refrained from questioning him and simply ordered Jupiter to show him around.

Given that one, he could simply refrain from drawing it; for him, he thought, the power to bend others to his will would pose no great temptation.