"restraint" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The issue is so timely because many traditional external restraints on individual behavior have fallen away.
- A critic who saw the Haarlem exhibit concluded that the murals lacked traditional restraint but would probably appeal to their intended audience.
- "Even though the personal exercise of power was tempered and circumscribed by religious and traditional restraints, it continued to be arbitrary and total."
- Elections were carnivals where all men were equal for one day and traditional restraints relaxed.
- What has happened is a growing willingness to abandon traditional restraints on proved and suspected enemies, foreign and American alike.
- Urbanization has meant rapid breakdown of traditional tribal restraints.
- The hallway would soothe arriving travellers after their hellish journeys, hence the traditional cool restraint of black and white floor tiles.
- In a crisis, he said, the military repercussions of that trend could erode the traditional restraints on nuclear arms.
- At the height of its use, it was considered more humane than traditional restraints made of ropes or chains.
- Musicians across the pop spectrum were liberated from exercising traditional craftsmanly restraints.
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