How to Use self-restraint in a Sentence
self-restraint
noun
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But only Trump knows whether his self-restraint will last.
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Eric Cortellessa,
TIME,
9 May 2024
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The ambition and motives are probably spot-on, but people have more self-restraint…because of the law.
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Keli Goff,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 May 2023
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The first mystery box tag team challenge proved a little too much for Krissi’s abilities as well as her self-restraint.
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Joe Bastianich,
Peoplemag,
7 June 2023
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It was found in acts of self-restraint that gave space to individuals to better their condition.
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Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
10 June 2023
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The tense self-restraint that’s written into the character converges with that of Gladstone’s performance.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2024
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Muslim people who have reached puberty are called on to fast, a practice of self-restraint intended to bring people closer to God.
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Marina Pitofsky,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2023
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The autocrat’s Achilles’ heel is an inherent lack of credible self-restraint.
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Adam S. Posen,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Aug. 2023
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So has Swift: Her voice has matured, no longer possessing the sweet self-restraint that colored her earliest releases.
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Maria Sherman,
BostonGlobe.com,
7 July 2023
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That’s especially true in the city, where piloting this variant of the best-selling Lamborghini of all time requires epic self-restraint.
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Jeremy Taylor,
Robb Report,
11 June 2023
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This has been due to a combination of creative diplomacy, military deterrence, and self-restraint on the part of China, Taiwan and the United States.
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David Sacks,
Foreign Affairs,
15 June 2023
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Observers will begin fasting for the next month from sunrise to sunset and engaging in activities that challenge their self-restraint and bring them closer to God.
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USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2024
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Altman had argued in the past that the strange structure of OpenAI, with a nonprofit overseeing a for-profit company, offered a form of self-restraint that would keep the company's technological ambitions on a safety-conscious leash.
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Wired Staff,
WIRED,
28 Dec. 2023
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These points support my argument that the present is a deviation from more than three decades of the preceding Chinese leadership’s relative self-restraint on economic intervention.
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Zongyuan Zoe Liu,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Oct. 2023
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Unfortunately, this kind of self-restraint may be easier said than done, particularly when the market demands newer and better products.
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IEEE Spectrum,
29 Oct. 2023
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