Sentence examples similar to acts or restraints from inspiring English sources

Where, for example, Sophrosyne would allow certain acts or emotions under due restraint and another virtue would cut them off altogether?

The west's callousness and indifference towards Arafat has only encouraged Sharon's excesses and nourished his belief that he can act without sanction or restraint.

The Internet is perhaps the closest thing we'll ever have to the ring of Gyges — the invisibility charm that allows its wearer to be alone while having access to the outside world — which Plato posited as the truest test of how a person will act when freed from accountability or restraint.

Historically, two state ideologies — Confucianism and communism — acted as restraints on commercial dealings.

The goal-area lines, wing lines, and centre line act as restraints on the movements of certain players during play.

It is often believed that the Republicans are the neocons and the Democrats act as restraints on the warmongering.

Mournian: Was your decision not to demonize Martha Bridegroom an act of compassion or an act of restraint?

Being overweight acts as a restraint that holds them back from acting on those impulses.

In general, as a commodity or service becomes more scarce the price increases and this acts as a restraint that encourages frugality, technical innovation and alternative products.

One says that humans are more likely to judge an act of commission — for instance, a referee's calling a penalty — to be intrusive or consequential than they are an act of restraint.

Yet here India acts as a restraint.