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
Good men, honest men, accurate men, righteous men, patient men, self-restraining men, fair men, modest men.
From Town Geology by Kingsley, Charles
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
But as it passed westward from the Holy City, it slowly extricated itself out of the spirit and the trammels of Judaism into the self-restraining freedom which Christ gives to His people.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh
There are, however, men who are no fools, that are headlong in their language as in their acts, because of their want of forbearance and self-restraining patience.
From Character by Smiles, Samuel
