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Both sought to recalibrate their offices’ use of prosecutorial power by declining to charge youths as adults and refraining from seeking the maximum penalty in every case.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has given a measured response to Israeli strikes on the country, saying the attack should not be "exaggerated or downplayed" while refraining from pledging immediate retaliation.

For most of his professional life, Brady told reporters, he subscribed to the old showbiz approach of wowing the public and refraining from talking about himself.

People in the area have been asked to take precautions such as wearing masks in public areas and refraining from visiting people in hospital.

The ferocity of the outcry was remarkable, tossing aside the usual restraints that lawmakers and political figures have observed in the past when refraining from criticism of judges and juries.