self-restraining
Example Sentences
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These two countries are called superpowers, but the name is illusory, since the power they have to level the earth and each other is self-restraining.
From Time Magazine Archive
There must be lessons to be learnt in all strong and self-restraining action.
From Yeast: a Problem by Kingsley, Charles
With the multitude, self-restraining meekness under provocation is a virtue which stands quite low in the catalogue.
From Friends and Neighbors by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
In brief, as much amazement was expressed as though "men of business" were commonly infallible, and the world had never heard of a man of business whose conduct was not ruled by self-restraining prudence.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
It was beyond the ordinary scope of the self-restraining forces in Moonface to await with calm the recovery of Lightfoot's breath and powers of conversation.
From The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Waterloo, Stanley
