restrainer
Example Sentences
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The decisive fifth came in 1962, when the ailing judicial restrainer, Felix Frankfurter, retired, to be succeeded by President Kennedy's gung-ho Labor Secretary, Arthur Goldberg.
From Time Magazine Archive
Philosopher, lawyer, teacher, former tackle for the Williams College "Ephmen" and compulsive thrasher in smooth waters, Bennett has clapped a restrainer on his formidable tongue until the confirmation hearings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indeed, the "guilt" that Freud never satisfactorily explained is one built-in restrainer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The law, however, is a great restrainer, and helps to keep the death- rate from reaching excessive proportions.
From Revenge! by Robert Barr
The governor and the governed, the restrainer and the restrained, can never as such be identical.
From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson
