self-restraint
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Albania's Deputy Prime Minister Albana Koçiu has called for "calmness, self-restraint and maturity" and said "Albania does not need to burn to change".
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
It teaches the difference between boyhood and manhood, between self-indulgence and self-restraint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Whatever the outcome, the court will be deciding not only the fate of one executive order but whether its own doctrine of self-restraint in election cases still has any meaning.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
And I mean, it definitely has a lot of self-restraint attached to it, so who knows if I possess that as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
When Snape said nothing, Narcissa seemed to lose what little self-restraint she still possessed.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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