self-restraint
Example Sentences
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Their lack of self restraint would result in an explosion.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024
Locsin warned Beijing's "failure to exercise self restraint threatens the special relationship" between the two countries.
From Reuters • Nov. 18, 2021
He had a moment of self restraint and stopped.
From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2015
In fact, though I have been playing a waiting game so patiently, to all appearance, I am driven half mad by self restraint.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James
Sacrifice of self not implied by self restraint, 696-m.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
