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

Honest, industrious, and self-restraining men will make a very bad social organization prosper; while vicious, idle, and reckless citizens will bring to ruin the best that ever was, or ever will be, invented.

From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry

There is more of genius, art, thought, and study in this self-restraining simplicity than in the freer and bolder eloquence that might make young pulses tingle.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various

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)

What a strong-minded, sober, self-restraining man I am! 

From Sermons on National Subjects by Kingsley, Charles