personal restraint

For all his personal restraint, he loved to be surrounded by beautiful things.

Riker called up all his personal restraint to keep from adding what else?

We cannot collectively as a free people enjoy the liberties without measured personal restraint.

As a Catholic priest, naturally I advocate personal restraint from sexual activity."

Bahá'ís stress the importance of absolute chastity for any unmarried person, and focus on personal restraint.

Decorum involves personal restraint, for some of the star-bred can send well, but shield themselves poorly."

Local Suppression A strategy of personal restraint (at least in this matter) smacks of simple inaction.

The Port Authority insists that such incidents are anomalous, but if so, surely personal restraint is as much of a factor as any security system.

The original context of the story, as related by Phaedrus, makes it clear that people feel the need of laws but are impatient of personal restraint.

How such values are assessed and exchanged among people determines the social, political, and personal restraints and imperatives by which conservation is practiced.

Kyle became Ham's protégé (earning the nickname "Ace") to hone his skills as a freedom fighter without personal restraint.

"Being a museum guard requires personal restraint," Mr. Connaught once said, after I had offhandedly remarked about a watercolor.

These courtships are characterized by irresistible charm, enchantment, and his antic over- coming of social distance through mischievous mockery of personal restraint.

His entire vision is there: the destruction of humanity by social convention, the despair that comes of understanding, the poisoning of happiness by personal restraint and much more.

All Personal Restraint Petitions (a statutory variation of the Writ of Habeas Corpus)

Depending on your own sense of taste and personal restraint, fall's reconceived classics can take you wherever you want to go, from refined and elegant to outright ostentatious.

The slightest suspicion of any personal restraint or of any military pressure brought to bear on him might alienate him from our cause, if not, perhaps, from me personally.

Only the deepest of personal restraint kept Keller from plowing upward in front of his captain, maybe tripping him on the way in, hoping he'd hit his head.

Or we can start on the very dangerous road of personal attacks on the integrity of colleagues which will threaten the mutual respect and personal restraints that hold this body together.

One of Machiavelli's constant themes is that politics is about public business and that the personal restraint to separate such business from private gratification is the foundation of success in both.

A Synthesis of Strategies Personal restraint, local action, selective delay, international agreement, unilateral strength, and international cooperation - all these strategies can help us in an effort to develop active shields.

If you believe me damned already, then it follows that I have nothing to gain by personal restraint - though despite your belief, it is my intention to deal with you as honorably as possible.

This is not to say that he was emotionalistic or excessive; on the contrary, he lauded personal restraint and felt that excess was a disease: "There is nothing worse than imagination without taste".

Decrees were executed in the usual manner by distraint of property and personal restraint; if necessary, houses were sometimes sold, but the implements of trade were usually spared unless no other property was forthcoming.

At the meeting they passed the first proposition of the new organization: "It is the unanimous sense of this convention that the attempt to abandon entirely the use of all means of personal restraint is not sanctioned by the true interests of the insane."