Carrel, however, suffered under no such self-imposed restraints.

From 1993 to 1996, he went on a writing-strike to protest the excessive, self-imposed restraint of Japanese publishers.

At times the composer's self-imposed restraints seem unnecessarily harsh.

This judgment, statesmanlike in its way, became a self-imposed political restraint on the legislators' charge: Find the truth, then weigh the consequences.

Comment also is justly subject to a self-imposed restraint.

His mind burst free of its self-imposed restraints and reached out to touch and join with Ruby's.

But the self-imposed restraint is over, said the Manhattan couple, both college professors.

The human had learned to use the Vulcan's self-imposed restraints, her introversion, against her of late.

Whether these self-imposed restraints represent a lasting commitment is unclear, and there are doubters.

The dissent called the surveillance Orwellian, limited only by the government's self-imposed restraint.