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
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
The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
From Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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
The same sort of arguments apply to a self-restraining morality of a high type as apply to a settled postponement of the present to the future upon grounds recommended by argument.
From Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Bagehot, Walter
