self-denying

And second, demonstrating to voters how a Labour government - constrained by the state of the economy and self-denying ordinances on tax - could make a difference.

But I’m glad her political peers and the media have caught her up in the midst of this self-denying reverie.

He managed to work so hard and so steadily, to be so self-denying and steadfast about saving money, that he paid my way through an Ivy League college.

If she lives as a man, she is self-denying, but her community no longer holds her at a distance.

Pressed to give a clearer answer, Johnson said he was exercising a “self-denying ordinance” of diplomacy and tact.