self-restraining
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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
With the multitude, self-restraining meekness under provocation is a virtue which stands quite low in the catalogue.
From Friends and Neighbors by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
There are, however, men who are no fools, that are headlong in their language as in their acts, because of their want of forbearance and self-restraining patience.
From Character by Samuel Smiles
For the noblest and most amiable thing that can be seen is power mixed with gentleness, the reposing, self-restraining attitude of strength.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
But as it passed westward from the Holy City, it slowly extricated itself out of the spirit and the trammels of Judaism into the self-restraining freedom which Christ gives to His people.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan
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