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

For the noblest and most amiable thing that can be seen is power mixed with gentleness, the reposing, self-restraining attitude of strength.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)

For such a house as this embodies the possibility of living with grace and decorum throughout by dint of loving carefulness and self-restraining simplicity.

From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon

As to Conscience checking us in these breaches, making them fewer than they would otherwise be, men may arrive at such a conscience, or self-restraining sentiment, in other ways than by an innate endowment.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

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 Reid, Mayne