| 单词 | restraint |
| 释义 | restraint (rɪstreɪnt ) Word forms: restraints 1. variable noun Restraints are rules or conditions that limit or restrict someone or something. The Prime Minister is calling for new restraints on trade unions. [+ on] With open frontiers, criminals could cross into the country without restraint. Synonyms: limitation, limit, check, ban 2. uncountable noun Restraint is calm, controlled, and unemotional behaviour. They behaved with more restraint than I'd expected. I'll speak to the staff and ask them to exercise restraint and common sense. Synonyms: self-control, self-discipline, self-restraint, self-possession 3. uncountable noun [with supplement] Restraint of something is the act of preventing it from increasing too much or from being done freely. [formal] For a year and a half, wage restraint on a voluntary basis worked. He sued them for restraint of trade and won. Collocations: budget restraint In an era of cost-cutting and budget restraint, it may be a superhuman task to find them. Times, Sunday Times Simultaneously, if more slowly, budget restraint began to eat away at the existing debt. Times, Sunday Times Budget restraints are tight, however, and tough decisions loom for commanders, damaging morale among the ranks as they feel the crunch even when at war. Times, Sunday Times With budget restraints causing more people to buy convenience foods, we're seeing more people with conditions that could be prevented if they had better diets or supplemented with vitamins. The Sun Budget restraints showed; we needed animations. Times, Sunday Times Police will also have to provide more information about the use of physical restraint. Times, Sunday Times Staff, banned from using physical restraint to stop her, drove after the car pair but lost them. The Sun The trust has banned that method and any other physical restraint can be used only in exceptional circumstances. Times, Sunday Times Managing prisons involves ordering the use of physical restraint, containment in virtual solitary confinement for long periods, and taking away privileges, including restrictions in access to families and socialising. Times, Sunday Times The effect of the physical restraint had to be considered in the context of restrictions applied when the restraint was not operating. Times, Sunday Times He called on the settlers to show restraint, but would not promise to extend the moratorium. Times, Sunday Times (2010) It was rich man's country and the scenery testified to that for the developers in this neck of the woods had shown restraint. YELLOW BIRD (1995) There is an argument for the boards of all these banks to show restraint in determining bonuses. Times, Sunday Times (2012) He appealed for the public to'show restraint and calm '. Times, Sunday Times (2013) It leaves a policy of public spending restraint without friends. Times, Sunday Times Very strong employment growth, stagnating earnings and public spending restraint made this an attractive policy combination. Times,Sunday Times The think-tank urges spending restraint over the next three to five years. Times, Sunday Times The second thing of note was that, for a government that said fiscal adjustment would come through spending restraint, there were some significant tax increases. Times, Sunday Times In days gone by one might have expected the candidates to extol the importance of fiscal rectitude, keeping taxes low, deregulation and public spending restraint. Times, Sunday Times He criticised the board for its active promotion of unlawful restraint as a result of 'its confused thinking' on the issue. Times, Sunday Times They are accused of conspiracy to commit unlawful restraint, conspiracy to commit risk of injury to a minor and interfering with police. Times, Sunday Times Others saw it as an unlawful restraint of trade imposed against the two affected airports, and no others. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The lawsuit alleged that the defendants were engaging in unlawful restraints and monopolies in trade. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It proscribed unlawful restraints and monopolies in interstate commerce as well as conspiracies to erect them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It urged restraint amid fears of a full-blown trade war. Times, Sunday Times (2018) He has urged restraint on his ministers. Times, Sunday Times (2009) I urge restraint and mutter something inane about the comfort to be drawn from being part of the moral majority. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Translations: Chinese: 谨言慎行, 限制 Japanese: 制限, 落ち着いた様子 |
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