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
What a strong-minded, sober, self-restraining man I am!
From Sermons on National Subjects by Charles Kingsley
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 Hugh Macmillan
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 Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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 Mayne Reid
