The phrase "far from restraining" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an action that is not being held back or restrained, often in contrast to what may have been expected. For example, "The music from the party was far from restraining, despite the city-wide curfew in effect."
He argues that far from restraining Mr. Sharon, Labor's participation has emboldened the prime minister to undertake the offensive in the West Bank.
In practical terms, the critics are charg ing that, far from restraining inflation in 1967 and 1968, the Federal Reserve actual ly promoted it, with the con sequence that last year, in terest rates were far higher than they otherwise would have been, and that this year unemployment may be great er, and profits lower.
Lib Dem colleagues praised Mr Clegg's "intensely personal speech" but Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman said that, far from restraining the Conservatives, the Lib Dems had backed them all the way.
Congress, far from restraining Trump's excesses, will only pile on.
In the drawing the prince, far from being restrained, practically levitates from his saddle with ardor and leans toward Nanak as if drawn to a magnet.
The superpowers negotiated reductions in their arsenals even as a secondary wave of proliferation began or continued in Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea, while Iran and Iraq have so far been restrained from going nuclear with either a combination of threats and rewards or actual invasion.
Sharon continues to threaten to remove him but has so far been restrained by the United States from ordering Arafat's expulsion or assassination.
Far from acting as a "restraining" influence on Arab religious fundamentalists, Bishara has expressed approval for the terrorist organisation Hezbollah.
Far from his goal of restraining Rock Beyond Belief, Major Dowty has made it possible for the event's speakers and performers to be even less restrained than they were going to be!
E-mail, like the telephone before it, invites contact from people we don't know or who would be far more restrained in face-to-face encounters.
(Thus far he has restrained himself from test-marketing his middle name, Jacob).
