"restrain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Palestinian officials had hoped that pressure by Arab nations on the Bush administration would prompt it to restrain Israel.
- Already, in anticipation of a possible war on Iraq, the Bush administration has been working to restrain Israel on two fronts.
- The Bush administration may find it necessary to try to restrain Israel from pursuing Al Qaeda internationally, should that organization prove the culprit in Thursday's attacks.
- The United States was unable to restrain Israel even when it felt it was necessary to do so against Syria in June 1967 and against Lebanon in 1982.
- In a letter to President Bush today, 89 senators urged him not to restrain Israel from retaliating fully against Palestinian violence and to express his solidarity publicly with Israel soon.
- The Bush administration's push for strong action against Iraq is running up against Arab perceptions that the United States has not done enough to restrain Israel.
- He accused the United States of restraining Israel from using its full might to defeat Palestinian terrorism.
- In Beirut, Lebanon's foreign minister, Jean Obeid, said "the situation is taking a dangerous course," and he called on the United Nations to restrain Israel, news agencies reported.
- To Israelis, however, any American effort to restrain Israel only denies the Americans themselves the kind of stick that could compel Mr. Arafat to really move forward on negotiations.
- Iraq targeted Israel with missiles during the 1991 Persian Gulf war, and only strong American pressure restrained Israel from a major air retaliation.
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