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

The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.

From Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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

From Yeast: a Problem by Kingsley, Charles

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

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