restraint

the restraints of a small town

I am under no restraint whatever.

the room was decorated with a restraint bordering on austerity.

decisions are made within the financial restraints of the budget.

with strings and piano, all restraint vanished.

She practiced restraint in her friendships.

Therefore then can any restraint, not shackle, but comfortable, trapes.

You showed great restraint in not crying.

The police had to use forcible restraint in order to arrest the suspect.

restraint is imposed in order to prevent competition simpliciter.

Journalists have exercised remarkable restraint in not reporting all the sordid details of the case.

She told me without restraint all about her married life.

Under the control of the rule of semantic composition as well as the restraint of other sememes, the original polysemies can present monosemy with no ambiguous meaning.

In the absence of internal, moral restraints, external ones can only do so much.

Get me a restraint before he swallows his tongue.

A mobbed rock 'n' roll star wished the kids would show more restraint.

Courageous restraint wasn't a concept they grasped at all.

It'll be up to him to decide how much judicial restraint to exercise.

We urge all sides to refrain from violence, exercise restraint and respect the rule of law.

During a phone call, Kerry urged Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to exercise the utmost restraint.

The police department permits restraint of a person's neck.

He wrote in a letter to the Security Council, India should not mistake our restraint for weakness.

She begged him to show some restraint, but this only served to spur him on even further.