Sentence examples for better self-restraint from inspiring English sources

Presumably, such an approach assumes that the offering of food items in smaller quantities allows the consumer to exercise better self-restraint.

Moreover, right now it's both killing innocent people and leading to indictments against police officers who otherwise, with much better training and self-restraint, would still be on the beat and doing their jobs.

But a carnivalesque evening would be better for a touch of self-restraint.

Roughly three-quarters of a representative sample of U.S. adults did not believe that children these days would show much self-restraint for a better reward.

So-called noncognitive skills — attributes like self-restraint, persistence and self-awareness — might actually be better predictors of a person's life trajectory than standard academic measures.

In another podcast conversation and in the Economic View column in Sunday Business, Richard Thaler, the University of Chicago economist, says Congress has been much better at spending than at budget-cutting, which is part of what he calls a self-restraint problem.

It would impose self-restraint.

"Kids have self-restraint.

The Spanish government exhibited relative self-restraint.

There were other opponents of self-restraint.

He said Iraqi forces showed "self-restraint".