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

Good men, honest men, accurate men, righteous men, patient men, self-restraining men, fair men, modest men. 

From Town Geology by Kingsley, Charles

If the child be taught that self-restraint is the boasted characteristic of the model American, should he not learn that the model American nation should be self-restraining?

From Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association by Weston, Stephen Francis

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

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 Macmillan, Hugh