"restraint" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Chancellor could argue that this outcome reflects the restraint exercised with respect to alcoholic drinks.
- Mr. Abram praised what he said was "restraint" exercised by Israeli soldiers who, he said, are pelted regularly by Palestinian demonstrators with stones, bottles, burning tires and human excrement.
- St. Laurent was criticized for a lack of restraint exercised on his minister C. D. Howe, who was widely perceived as extremely arrogant.
- Such a position would involve easing or eliminating the restraints currently exercised by Investment Canada, the official review agency, and by other Government bodies.
- The statement added that monitors also "witnessed restraint being exercised by security forces in the face of provocation and violence by demonstrators."
- His restraint, exercised for so long, paradoxically excited her, because she felt no fear of him.
- Also, any restraint exercised by banks was more than offset by sharp increases in property lending by non-bank financial institutions, such as leasing companies and insurance companies.
- Mr. Olmert, then, clearly decided that the policy of restraint exercised by Mr. Sharon was not working, and he would lay down new rules.
- Bombings by Sunni insurgents and Qaeda terrorists remain prevalent enough that the current restraint being exercised by most Shiite militias will be difficult to sustain.
- I am told that yesterday, only for the restraint exercised by certain offended mountaineers on other grounds than your own worth, you would have been abbreviated by the head.
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