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
The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
From Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Good men, honest men, accurate men, righteous men, patient men, self-restraining men, fair men, modest men.
From Town Geology by Charles Kingsley
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 Stephen Francis Weston
It was beyond the ordinary scope of the self-restraining forces in Moonface to await with calm the recovery of Lightfoot's breath and powers of conversation.
From The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo
