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

The same sort of arguments apply to a self-restraining morality of a high type as apply to a settled postponement of the present to the future upon grounds recommended by argument.

From Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society by Bagehot, Walter

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 Smiles, Samuel

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

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

From Town Geology by Kingsley, Charles