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Discover LudwigThe phrase "constrain myself" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when expressing the need to limit or control one's own actions, feelings, or impulses. Example: "I had to constrain myself from reacting impulsively to the criticism."
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Let me constrain myself to asking, of all the potential targets in the world, in France, in Paris, why Charlie Hebdo?It seems that satire especially riles those most ripe for it.
In them, Johnson addresses Hester as "Mistress," begs her to "spare me the need to constrain myself, by taking away the power to leave the room when you want me to stay," and asks her to "keep me in that form of slavery which you know so well how to make blissful".
"I like Trump because he tells me that I no longer have to constrain myself to thoughts and words that are respectful of others, and frees me to offer my own self-interested prejudices as legitimate justifications for open warfare on anyone I don't like.
"When, in writing for the majority of the court, I adopt a general rule and say, 'This is the basis of our decision,' I not only constrain lower courts, I constrain myself as well," Scalia declared in his Holmes Lecture at Harvard in 1989.
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"If my comments or opinions are going to provoke such storms of upset, then considering that I myself am looking to severely constrain the amount of time I spend with interviews and my already very occasional appearances, it would logically be better for everyone concerned, not least myself, if I were to stop issuing those comments and opinions.
Will this constrain the kowtowing?
"They want to constrain offense.
Don't constrain.
Does originalism constrain conservative judges?
And that could constrain growth.
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