It is the restraining of the mind to a single act, state, or thought.

She cried out, not really knowing who was restraining her or why.

"Anything we can get in restraining other people is gravy," he said.

"So the only option I had was a restraining or disposal order."

In 2003, the use of leather restraining body belts was abolished.

I kept over him as a child, in the days of his first remembrance, my restraining and correcting hand.

But her restraining, gentle hand had already pressed his.

This restraining of economic stimulation gives us grounds to fear further recession in Europe.

The President's budget strategy is to approach balance gradually by restraining spending growth and not raising taxes.

The difficulty of restraining herself to Covenant's short strides was obvious in her.

Kahlan could see that Zedd was making a great effort at restraining himself.

By restraining the power of the nobility, he transformed France into a strong, centralized state.

Because his research subjects would be alive, Bekker had fixed restraining rings to the table.

Freud concedes that religion does indeed, have this restraining, civilizing role.

He wrote, "One should feel a gathering of forces, the restraining of an internal rage."

He said, firmly restraining the rush of desperation: "You lack curiosity, then?

He felt her restraining grip on his ankles.

Although difficulty was had in restraining several members of the crew, fire was not opened on the sampans.

He said state law prevented the nursing home from physically restraining people or even putting up a bed rail without a doctor's directive.

Were just talking about restraining him.

The term "Bondage" describes the practice of Physical restraining.

Sparhawk started to object, but she laid one restraining hand on his arm and started towards the door.

She held up a restraining, ladylike glove.

"You also must be a lot tougher than you look, if you're planning on restraining high-flying adolescent males."

He clasped her restraining hand and held it, saying in a moved voice, "Too good, too excellent creature!

And yet old people are being restrained all the time.

And then the children restrained themselves only for a while.

But I restrained myself and just put the head inside.

He was about to set to work at once, when she restrained him.

I've been restraining myself for six and a half years!

She moved to go past him, but he shot out a hand and restrained her.

He wanted them to restrain me until the police came.

He thought of saying, I'm in no position to restrain her from anything.

Why had he not tried to restrain the King at least?

You had to be restrained for it to take place.

During his 11 month stay at the hospital he was restrained by staff 28 times.

The girl bit him as he tried to restrain her.

"I hope you restrained yourself because of your wife and kids."

He wanted to take her into his arms, but restrained himself.

The more she restrained him, the better he seemed to like it.

They need, first, to be restrained, which means outside control.

Most believe it will be difficult for him to restrain himself.

I tried to restrain him, but it was no use.

Why would she want to restrain a man like that?

No matter what she said, James knew he must restrain himself.

It must have been difficult last summer for him to restrain himself.

She did not appear to be restrained in any way.

Richard wanted to ask a question, but he restrained himself.

But it was quite an act of will to restrain myself.

Restraining him by physical means was out of the question.

One has to restrain oneself in speaking, looking, and listening.

It is not restraining oneself by taking others as the norm.

Why restrain oneself? it’s a magic moment, I love it!

It is absolutely difficult to restrain oneself in the face of constant assaults.

It is much harder to restrain oneself to produce a simple, reliable, user friendly, site.

Maturing means restraining oneself - precisely what environmentalists contend our species must do.

The stronger the urge, the harder (i.e., more strength) one needs to restrain oneself from indulging it.

Now culture may or may not include the power to admire antiquities, and to restrain oneself from the pleasure of breaking them like toys.

To leave the table for bodily functions was considered inappropriate and restraining oneself was considered good manners.

Upon this, the third day of junketing, it was tiresome to have to restrain oneself even from such innocent excursions of fancy.

Restraining oneself from anger is seen as noble and desirable, as Ethics of the Fathers states:

The text recommends restraining oneself from salt, mustard, acidic foods, spicy astringent pungent foods.

Higher levels of dysfunctional impulsivity have been related to difficulty restraining oneself from smoking in inappropriate places, smoking without being aware of doing so, and overall craving for cigarettes.

Well, he did not complain about that: it was very irritating sitting down at ameal alone and restraining oneself, between courses, from poking the tines of a fork into a fraying patch.

This formulation, as indicated in the parable of the Good Samaritan, emphasizes the needs for positive action that brings benefit to another, not simply restraining oneself from negative activities that hurt another.