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“The time of European restraint and the hope that the USA would protect us is over,” she said.

From Salon

Unless someone has something on him that's so devastating that it will destroy him, he is completely without restraint.

From Salon

Lights could prove a non-invasive means of shark restraint, unlike nets or drones, they added.

From BBC

The Fiscal Council had noted that ministers could choose to exercise pay restraint, but that would be "unpopular and difficult".

From BBC

So the 2026 congressional election may be the strongest restraint on what Trump can do — and that campaign is already underway.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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