Sentence examples for Restrained from inspiring English sources

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Restrained

verb

Past of restrain

  • He was restrained by the straight jacket.

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The idea that landlords should be restrained from shoving rents through the roof regardless of their tenants' ability to pay them invariably gets Tories screaming about red dictatorships and the end of the world.

Jeblawi, bruised and dehydrated, has to be restrained from excitedly hugging every European she sees.

That's possible - those types of viewers typically claim to dislike excess confrontation in politics, and what made Romney effective was that his aggression was restrained and respectful - but ultimately, Americans, their claims to the contrary notwithstanding, respond viscerally to alpha dominance in their political leaders.

Rosewater is a torturer, but insists he is restrained by "Islamic kindness", and is generous with his tea and biscuits.

Chocolate-inspired cocktails are all attractively restrained and grown up, with kids enlivened by the fondue dishes.

If he was more restrained about others in the middle volumes, about himself he remained completely unsparing throughout.

Xiaomi is "restrained from manufacturing, assembling, importing, selling or advertising" its smartphones in India according to court documents released to the Economic Times.

I can never forget the long-haired boy who was called into the headmaster's study and physically restrained while another teacher attempted to cut off his hair.

Bad policing by a few "stigmatizes all of us", he says, yet the 35,000 cops of the NYPD are the "most restrained in the country".

Officers restrained Church for the better part of a day, denying him access to an attorney, before sending him to a nearby police station to be booked and charged.

Holland is the first single to emerge from the sessions, a skeletal, dry-as-a-bone musical backing swollen by a voice loaded with soul but beautifully restrained.

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