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
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 Samuel Smiles
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 Frances Eleanor Trollope
With the multitude, self-restraining meekness under provocation is a virtue which stands quite low in the catalogue.
From Friends and Neighbors by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Several years of honourable and self-restraining love bring him a wife, beautiful, loving, worshipping his talents; a help meet for him, such as God will send at times to those whom he loves.
From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley
