Sentence examples for decency and restraint from inspiring English sources

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Once again, Christopher performed with wisdom, decency and restraint.

After all, the English legal system is founded not on the assumption that everybody will behave with decency and restraint but on the rather more reliable conviction that most people, including the police, are capable of lying and may do so if it is to their advantage.

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Paxton is often cast in military roles or as part of a doughty crew — "Aliens," "Apollo 13" — because of his air of decency and self-restraint.

Paxton is often cast in military roles or as part of a doughty crew—"Aliens," "Apollo 13 because of his air of decency and self-restraint.

He's fallen through the last restraints of decency and industriousness, down into the demoralized and pathological underclass that, in the past, Americans associated with the black poor.

Soft money, the corporate and personal contribution loophole, is in addition to this and has destroyed any semblance of decency or restraint.

And restraint.

A marathon requires patience and restraint.

Such maturity and restraint may not last.

His language lacked polish and restraint.

They have ardour and restraint.

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