Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving to restrain or restrict in any way.
- Hampering; restrictive.
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- verb Present participle of
restrain .
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Examples
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I think Tom did a good job in restraining himself in the face of ignorance on national television ........
Hunters on Acting 2009
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I think Tom did a good job in restraining himself in the face of ignorance on national television ........
Hunters on Acting 2009
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Then again, I am not one of those liberals currently complaining that our majority is wasted because of the "Blue Dogs" and the Senate counterparts 'role in restraining the left.
Discourse.net: Florida's Senator Nelson Votes Against the Full Public Option 2009
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The secular government has a divinely appointed role in restraining evil – a fact that goes unrecognised by political and religious liberals.
Why Christians should be politically conservative « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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I believe there's plenty of economic justification for subsidy and regulation in restraining the worst excesses of the market and infinitely more importantly, human nature.
Rent and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It is, however, useful in restraining the more nuttily protectionist tendencies in American government.
Matthew Yglesias » At The Department of Forgotten Cabinet Secretaries 2009
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My discomfort grew daily and my role in restraining potential abuses of power increasingly more difficult.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Could This Be The Tipping Point for Arpaio and Thomas? 2009
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My discomfort grew daily and my role in restraining potential abuses of power increasingly more difficult.
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Politicains the world over and throughout history have a great difficulty in restraining themselves once they have begun down a path to fulfilling personal agendas (which are invariably, and usually inaccurately, linked to the agenda of the nation in question), and espescially when these agendas involve military action.
Think Progress » Right-Wing ‘Guide to World War III’: ‘Kill ‘Em All, Let Allah Sort ‘Em Out’ 2006
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One annalist noted the parents 'success in restraining their children but simultaneously cited the children's obstinate resistance to their parents' wishes: "Yet those whose fathers and mothers did not allow [them] to leave cried very greatly."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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