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

Suffering under the sting of such a fearful apprehension, it required me to exert all the self-restraining power of which I was possessed.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

Several years of honourable and self-restraining love bring him a wife, beautiful, loving, worshipping his talents; a help meet for him, such as God will send at times to those whom he loves. 

From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles

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 Smiles, Samuel

He had sat by Maria day after day, wiping the cold dampness from her forehead and watching her self-restraining pride.

From Old Kaskaskia by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell