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

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 Kingsley, Charles

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

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

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 Trollope, Frances Eleanor