The phrase "demand restraint" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is calling for moderation or self-control, often in discussions about behavior, consumption, or policy.
Example: "In light of the current economic situation, experts are urging the government to demand restraint in public spending."
Alternatives: "call for moderation" or "urge self-control."
Justice Amtzen interrupted four times to demand restraint, but Breivik was never silenced.
That way, shareholders can demand restraint and the media can go to war on the most egregious individuals.
The debt reschedulings, and the accompanying policies of demand restraint, were built on the premise that a few years of tough adjustment would be sufficient to get out of such crises and to provide the basis for renewed, vigorous growth.
He can't bring himself simply to order banks to stop paying bonuses because there are, it seems, contractual and other legal issues, but he went a long way to demand restraint and penitence.
Some regions expect lively, copious banter during the meal while others demand restraint.
In this regard, Garnett [24] summarised three perspectives on tackling the food security and sustainability issues as: efficiency oriented; demand restraint and food system transformation, of which efficiency oriented measures have been advocated by governments and food industry decision makers [23,24].
Part of the company's reluctance is that it says the union is asking the company to demand restraints that it said it would not seek after the steel industry won the Reagan Administration's acceptance in 1985 for voluntary restraints on steel imports.
Mechanism 7: Modification of modal choice by for example demand restraints (area access restriction, road pricing, area parking strategies), supply control by modal interchange and other public transport management measures, and travel information systems.
Alarmed Western governments demanded restraint and dialogue.
Earlier in the day, at a meeting with United Nations and international Red Cross officials, Secretary Powell also demanded restraint from Israel, urging its army to refrain from the "excessive use of force".
Although he issued regular exhortations demanding restraint from Mr. Abbas, the struggling new Palestinian prime minister, and from Mr. Sharon, the prime minister of Israel, he did not make a single call to the region, even after Mr. Sharon's forces tried to assassinate a leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas and a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 16 on a bus in Jerusalem.
