Malthus said, some people are more prudent, productive and self-restraining than others. From Wordnik.com. [Malthus on population, with contempt] Reference
So all that the islands do, by having higher prices, is keep out riff-raff, and by having enforced rules, do the self-restraining that people aren't discliplined themselves to have. From Wordnik.com. [Civicus] Reference
Other equity feminists are socially conservative and argue that, while the state should not enforce them, traditional values function as bulwarks against state power and produce independent and self-restraining citizens. From Wordnik.com. [Liberal Feminism] Reference
Military-industrial capitalism, with its arrogant disregard for the human and environmental consequences of its activities, can have only a limited run on Planet Earth, but it doesn't know this and has no inner, self-restraining mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Koehler: Implications of a Pointless War] Reference
Dwaitabana, the dwellers of that place engaged in asceticism, religious ordinances, and self-restraining exercises and in deep and devout meditation and subsisting on things ground with stone (for want of teeth) having procured grass-mats and water-vessels, advanced to meet them. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
• You impose a self-restraining order on all unfinished business. From Wordnik.com. [Freep.com - RSS] Reference
The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage à la mode] Reference
Arguably, NATO has been too respectful and self-restraining as the Taliban reconstituted under its watch. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
A deliberate edginess permeates this Op. 110, just as a self-restraining steadiness marks the Hammerklavier. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
He had sat by Maria day after day, wiping the cold dampness from her forehead and watching her self-restraining pride. From Wordnik.com. [Old Kaskaskia] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
For the noblest and most amiable thing that can be seen is power mixed with gentleness, the reposing, self-restraining attitude of strength. From Wordnik.com. [Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890] Reference
It was beyond the ordinary scope of the self-restraining forces in Moonface to await with calm the recovery of Lightfoot's breath and powers of conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Character] Reference
The same sort of arguments apply to a self-restraining morality of a high type as apply to a settled postponement of the present to the future upon grounds recommended by argument. From Wordnik.com. [Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society] Reference
Anti-Semitism is back - not that it ever went away completely, but I mean back out of the sewers and from the shamefacedness and the self-restraining codes - in all its ugly colours. From Wordnik.com. [Freeborn John] Reference
There have always been two parties in the South-the moderate, self-restraining portion, headed by such politicians as Clay, Crittenden, and Bell, and the extreme self-indulging party. From Wordnik.com. [An American Statesman] Reference
But the temper of the people, saturated with Calvinism, is severe and self-restraining, and they rarely give voice to those terms of endearment which are so constantly pirouetting on Southern lips. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
The self-restraining character of the Norman people, their respect for law, were manifested even amidst persecution; the children were torn away from Protestant families, and the chapels were demolished by act of. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5] Reference
This is an usual effect of the apparition of genius, whether in Man or Woman, but is more frequent with regard to the latter, because a harmony, an obvious order and self-restraining decorum, is most expected from her. From Wordnik.com. [Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.] Reference
Her hat tired her head; she removed it, and the beautiful hair underneath, falling into confusion, must be put in its place by skilled instinctive fingers, every movement answering to a similar self-restraining effort in the mind within. From Wordnik.com. [The Testing of Diana Mallory] Reference
The duty of sparing, as relating to the sacred, is not. a mere non-doing, but, like every other form of this duty, it is a self-restraining out of regard to the higher right of the sacred object; a sparing from mere indifference would be sinful. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.] Reference
That is, made them upright, strong-minded, righteous, self-restraining people; and that they were saved by it from those sins which had been dragging them down, and keeping them diseased in soul, weak, miserable, the slaves of their own passions and foul pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on National Subjects] Reference
The first shows Woman lovely even to allurement; quick in apprehension and weak in judgment; with grace and dignity of sentiment, but no principle; credulous and indiscreet, yet artful; capable of sudden greatness or of crime, but not of a steadfast wisdom, nor self-restraining virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.] Reference
There is a standard of decency here that's far less complex than your current personal entanglements: You keep the innocent friendships by introducing these friends to your girlfriend; you end the friendship with anyone you don't want your girlfriend to meet; and you impose a self-restraining order on all unfinished business. From Wordnik.com. [Philly.com - Latest Videos] Reference
His is a proud and self-restraining nature. From Wordnik.com. [New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune] Reference
Of self-restraining art. From Wordnik.com. [TO MAY] Reference
The self-restraining, the ever kind. ". From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference
The self-restraining, and the ever-kind. From Wordnik.com. [WRITTEN AFTER THE DEATH OF CHARLES LAMB] Reference
Now there's a truce, all's subdued, self-restraining. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
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