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 Smiles, Samuel
The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
From Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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
For the noblest and most amiable thing that can be seen is power mixed with gentleness, the reposing, self-restraining attitude of strength.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
