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Indeed, it should make us consider how integral the Internet is to our functioning society -- We've long considered the Internet to be this indelible, un-restrainable force for freedom of information.

Keith Wagstaff: We Must Stay Plugged In: The Internet Is Central to Democracy Keith Wagstaff 2011

Insofar as judicial power is restrainable by public opinion, it is a plus for forcing these referenda.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Impact of Judicial Power on Gay Marriage Revisited: 2009

At last the laughter of the sailors, no longer restrainable, revealed the situation to him.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903

During several days he wrote letters, in which the notes of gratitude and exultation, mingled with pity and sympathy with the suffering, and full of scarcely restrainable joy in view of the speedy termination of the war, are discernible.

Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman William Elliot Griffis 1885

Speech intended to produce strikes the judge characterized as the abuse of free speech, properly restrainable by courts.

History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880

But it was with an impatience scarcely restrainable that she waited for the approach of evening which would bring her lover.

Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838

Mad movements both, restrainable by no known rule; strongest passions of human nature driving them on: love, hatred; vengeful sorrow, braggart

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

On the morrow, which is the 20th of June, these Hundred and Forty-nine false Curates, no longer restrainable by his Grace of Paris, will desert in a body: let De Breze intervene, and produce -- closed doors!

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

In that age, however, and long afterwards, it showed the ineffaceable lineaments of its wild paternity: it was a pleasant and kindly race of men, but capable of savage fierceness, and never quite restrainable within the trammels of social law.

The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

These convulsive motions are nevertheless restrainable by violent voluntary counteraction; and as their intervals are owing to the pain of cold being for a time relieved by their exertion, they may be compared to laughter, except that there is no interval of pleasure preceding each moment of pain in this as in the latter.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766