Sentence examples for controlling oneself from inspiring English sources
In the letter, she describes "controlling, controlling, controlling oneself, till one just bursts at last in despair".
A major aspect of Ramadhan is being charitable to others and controlling oneself... bite your tongue, count to 10 if you're having a hard day.
The film is thrillingly, unapologetically about decency and honour, about, as Laura heartrendingly puts it, controlling oneself.
These discoveries prompted further investigation into where the ability to control oneself comes from.
A vicious cycle of failing to control oneself followed by feeling intense self-hatred and disgust is common in attempts at self-control.
We do not know whether the differential is due to differences in the type and dosage of substances/alcohol used, settings, or ability to control oneself.
The statement of Nelson saying, "I knew that I could take care of myself and I knew how to be safe there" demonstrates the tendency of distressed migrants to create the "illusion of control," a predisposition that fortifies false beliefs that situation can be measured and controlled by oneself.
Given data subjects' interests in autonomy and privacy (e.g. controlling data about oneself), the identifiability of data to be shared for an epidemiological study affects the relative risks faced by the participant.
Given the age of the interviewed patients, the trend towards controlling existing diseases, informing oneself actively about disorders, and being critical about medication is rather surprising: Interviewees had much less paternalistic expectations toward their GP than one would expect.
Fashion is all about control — of the viewer's eye, of a client's body, of oneself — so good style becomes the highest form of self-mastery, the ability to control what of oneself the world is allowed to access.
A relatively recent psychological concept whose precise meaning is still disputed, EI is defined rather more scientifically as the ability to perceive, identify, evaluate and control emotions in oneself and, critically, others.
