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Definition of self-restraint in English: self-restraintnoun mass nounRestraint imposed by oneself on one's own actions; self-control. Example sentencesExamples - Conservatives practice this self-restraint, which is one reason they have gotten enough moderate voters to win recent elections.
- Thus, one might cultivate and exercise virtues such as self-restraint for the sake of goods, such as a rich and vibrant marriage.
- The tattooed person should keep Buddhist precepts of self-restraint to ensure the power of the tattoos.
- In true bistro tradition, you'll come away a few kilos the heavier unless you exercise some serious self-restraint - take it from me!
- I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint.
- They say British women have no self-restraint.
- It was this temperance and self-restraint that led to Mendes being noticed in Hollywood.
- I think it is really a behavioral thing involving self-restraint.
- Schooled in self-restraint and ideals of nobility, she maintains a dispassionate tone, and her captors' treatment of her provides insights denied to most prisoners.
- He had a keen awareness of the ebb and flow of history, and of the need for consistent jurisprudence, and, above all, self-restraint.
- We believe that the most effective enforcement tool is self-policing and self-restraint.
- True manhood involved having a strong manly character exemplified by self-control and self-restraint.
- Although he has more at stake this year, his self-restraint on these matters, including the prison scandal, has not always prevailed.
- I didn't know I had quite so much self-restraint.
- The sporting code, which had been rough and ready for most of the nineteenth century, especially in Africa, began to impose more self-restraint on hunters.
- In the widespread atmosphere of fear about further attacks, the normal sense of self-restraint was not, and did not have to be, exercised by the executive.
- As the storm dies down, the trawlermen, all self-restraint washed away by physical exhaustion, crowd into the galley and reveal their deepest fears to the writer.
- It used to be the case that former presidents exercised self-restraint in commenting on the performance of their successors in office.
- Civil rights groups and lawyers have approached the attorney general and urged him to issue an informal warning to establish self-restraint by the print and broadcast media.
- Compelling answers to this need for self-restraint, for delayed gratification, are in short supply.
Synonyms self-control, restraint, control, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-possession, will power, strength of will, moderation, temperateness, temperance, abstemiousness, abstention, non-indulgence informal cool rare countenance
Derivatives adjective On one hand, we were scared; on the other hand, we were also self-restrained. Example sentencesExamples - Ever since he lost the election for Taipei mayor, he has been humble and self-restrained, quiet and modest, to the surprise of many.
- A self-restrained judge, by contrast, will largely defer to elected politicians except in the most egregious instances, and will be reluctant to develop the meaning of clauses of the Constitution.
- This may be a puzzlement to those around you because most of the time you are so self-restrained and in perfect control.
- I don't think I would have been so self-restrained.
Definition of self-restraint in US English: self-restraintnounˈˌsɛlf rəˈstreɪnt Restraint imposed by oneself on one's own actions; self-control. Example sentencesExamples - The tattooed person should keep Buddhist precepts of self-restraint to ensure the power of the tattoos.
- We believe that the most effective enforcement tool is self-policing and self-restraint.
- Thus, one might cultivate and exercise virtues such as self-restraint for the sake of goods, such as a rich and vibrant marriage.
- I didn't know I had quite so much self-restraint.
- He had a keen awareness of the ebb and flow of history, and of the need for consistent jurisprudence, and, above all, self-restraint.
- It was this temperance and self-restraint that led to Mendes being noticed in Hollywood.
- I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint.
- I think it is really a behavioral thing involving self-restraint.
- Compelling answers to this need for self-restraint, for delayed gratification, are in short supply.
- The sporting code, which had been rough and ready for most of the nineteenth century, especially in Africa, began to impose more self-restraint on hunters.
- Schooled in self-restraint and ideals of nobility, she maintains a dispassionate tone, and her captors' treatment of her provides insights denied to most prisoners.
- In the widespread atmosphere of fear about further attacks, the normal sense of self-restraint was not, and did not have to be, exercised by the executive.
- In true bistro tradition, you'll come away a few kilos the heavier unless you exercise some serious self-restraint - take it from me!
- As the storm dies down, the trawlermen, all self-restraint washed away by physical exhaustion, crowd into the galley and reveal their deepest fears to the writer.
- It used to be the case that former presidents exercised self-restraint in commenting on the performance of their successors in office.
- True manhood involved having a strong manly character exemplified by self-control and self-restraint.
- Conservatives practice this self-restraint, which is one reason they have gotten enough moderate voters to win recent elections.
- Although he has more at stake this year, his self-restraint on these matters, including the prison scandal, has not always prevailed.
- They say British women have no self-restraint.
- Civil rights groups and lawyers have approached the attorney general and urged him to issue an informal warning to establish self-restraint by the print and broadcast media.
Synonyms self-control, restraint, control, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-possession, will power, strength of will, moderation, temperateness, temperance, abstemiousness, abstention, non-indulgence
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