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 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
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
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.
