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

He had sat by Maria day after day, wiping the cold dampness from her forehead and watching her self-restraining pride.

From Old Kaskaskia by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

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

From Yeast: a Problem by Kingsley, Charles

In brief, as much amazement was expressed as though "men of business" were commonly infallible, and the world had never heard of a man of business whose conduct was not ruled by self-restraining prudence.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor