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

As to Conscience checking us in these breaches, making them fewer than they would otherwise be, men may arrive at such a conscience, or self-restraining sentiment, in other ways than by an innate endowment.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

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

There must be lessons to be learnt in all strong and self-restraining action.

From Yeast: a Problem by Kingsley, Charles

For such a house as this embodies the possibility of living with grace and decorum throughout by dint of loving carefulness and self-restraining simplicity.

From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon