Sentence examples for at restraint from inspiring English sources

Despite an effort at restraint, he was growing excited.

Several recent incidents illustrate how efforts at restraint can go awry.

Neither side is good at restraint during times of cease fire, but when it comes to such agreements Israel holds most of the cards.

Zimmer's effort at restraint was in line with what his colleagues advised last year, when they elevated him to president with varying levels of enthusiasm as a compromise choice.

They ordered some sleeves and asked Gray to try her hand at restraints, whips, blindfolds, floggers, and the like.

There is a need for effective interventions aiming at restraint-free nursing care.

(Yessss!) And viewers can spend some of their idle time simply marveling at the restraint of the cast and crew, especially at one moment near the end.

At pretest, restraint theory's prediction that participants would engage in counter-regulatory eating was not supported.

However, because he was uncooperative owing to his condition and our attempts at physical restraint had failed (he violently refused our intervention), he was scheduled for dental treatment under general anesthesia.

However, the substance of these remarks was as waiflike as his transient attempt at rhetorical restraint.

I also marvel at the restraint my left-leaning Democratic mother exhibited in letting me work through the social, cultural, and theological implications of my beliefs.