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

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

What a strong-minded, sober, self-restraining man I am! 

From Sermons on National Subjects by Kingsley, Charles

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

From Town Geology by Kingsley, Charles

Honest, industrious, and self-restraining men will make a very bad social organization prosper; while vicious, idle, and reckless citizens will bring to ruin the best that ever was, or ever will be, invented.

From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry