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 must be lessons to be learnt in all strong and self-restraining action.
From Yeast: a Problem by Kingsley, Charles
Suffering under the sting of such a fearful apprehension, it required me to exert all the self-restraining power of which I was possessed.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
There is more of genius, art, thought, and study in this self-restraining simplicity than in the freer and bolder eloquence that might make young pulses tingle.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various
If the child be taught that self-restraint is the boasted characteristic of the model American, should he not learn that the model American nation should be self-restraining?
From Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association by Weston, Stephen Francis
