21. Equity, however, enters injunctions or decrees directing someone either to act or to forbear from acting. 22. But the custom of bestowing them is centuries old, one that American colleges borrowed from their English forbears . 23. We forbear at present from expressing an opinion regarding the most efficient mode of communicating and disseminating European Knowledge. 24. :: It has been postulated that wisdom teeth were useful to our evolutionary forbears , who were herbivorous. 25. We now distinguish public from private in the lives of our leaders, and forbear from judgments about the latter. 26. Nor were early press reports of obstreperous spectators mimicking Elizabethan forbears with jeers and catcalls borne out at this performance. 27. The District Court in Hamburg granted Harlan's suit and ordered that L�th forbear from making such public appeals. 28. Since the eighth century, it has been a time when transplanted urbanites make pilgrimages to the land of their forbears . 29. Back to our skiing forbears skinning up the liftless mountain for two runs a day down through the ungroomed trees and meadows. 30. Nowadays, Oklahomans can read " The Grapes of Wrath " without being embarrassed by their Depression-era forbears .