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It meretriciously urges all parties to exercise restraint, as it, itself, exercises restraint in the field of morality.
Would it require a full-dress trial, with a decision on the merits, in order to prevent prior restraint problems?
In all probability, patience, forbearance, and restraint would have conquered their hearts.
We do not hold to the view that judicial independence means a licence to behave without restraint.
But with the right mix of supervision, freedom and restraint, it could be a raging success.
He said he wasn't attempting to prohibit debate on the report, but rather asked for restraint pending adjudication by the courts.
He is now free to wander and interact with less restraint, and, as such, his presence is represented with greater frequency.
From Greek Old Comedy he borrowed the saturnalian pattern of release from restraint through recognition and clarification.
The regulars, sipping their habitual drinks and talking less earnestly, knew the importance of restraint.
Rabotkina brought refreshing restraint and imaginative, often poetic musical shape to the thrice familiar Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso.
Political pluralism also tends to exercise some moderation or restraint on unbridled nationalism.
A good improv record will have contrasting periods of restraint and release, alternating between logic and wit.
Despite the pleas of defence lawyers, the attorney general appeared to do nothing to urge restraint.
If the restraint was deemed to be merely ancillary to the main purpose of a lawful contract, then it would be lawful.
Sometimes the text clearly mandates this, in which case I take it that many advocates of judicial restraint wouldn't object.
In the event of a severe impact from the rear, the seat backrest and head restraint accompany the movements of the seat occupant's body.
He played the schnook with believable restraint, leaving the Marx Brothers, Jerry Lewis and Lou Costello to play the clowns.
This manneristic behaviour was difficult to control despite behavioural therapy or physical restraint.
Stanchioned cattle are very restless because their restraint limits their ability to lick or scratch.
Semi-structured interviews took place in a private room in the hospital ward, usually within 12 hours after each restraint event.
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This pressure of interrogation was upsetting the restraint he was putting on himself.
We superpowers also have the responsibility to exercise restraint in the use of our great military force.
Potch lifted her hand to his lips, a resurge of the virile male in him moving his restraint.
His boxing, and his experience in the slums and ghettos of the world, had taught him restraint.
Like his English compeer, Wolsey, Richelieu's ardour for building knew no restraint.
Dr. Stopes is by calling a fossil botanist, and her scientific training gives restraint and substance to all her verse.
This also involves the power of restraint, the act or the refraining from action.
And that there can be nothing more painful than the restraint under which I am kept?
Too much guidance and restraint hinder the formation of habits of self-help.
Further investigation revealed that this was because I was strapped down, in full-on four-point restraint.
It is specially their duty to redeem the time, who are scanted of time through poverty, service, or restraint.
You may choose which liberty you will, and restraint of voiceful rock, or the dumb and edgeless shore of darkened sand.
Her manner was boyish, hoydenish at times, and although convent-trained, she was inclined to balk at restraint in any form.
They have an eighteenth-century restraint, and freedom from emotionalism and gush.
It was then that he lost the decorum and restraint a man keeps up for his own sake.
The interlacement and flourishing, too, are handled with commendable restraint.
He watched her, his body eager, his soul trammelling it with a steely restraint.
In the education of your family, you would meet with no interruptions or restraint.
By using a local anesthetic on the plantar nerves and confining the subject on an operating table, restraint should be perfect.
The children were crying, Kathleen impulsively and without restraint, Desmond secretively, as men are accustomed to weep.
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