Sentence examples for gesture of restraint from inspiring English sources

Thanks to an uncharacteristic gesture of restraint by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who incinerated a swath of Georgia during the Civil War, there was a Savannah for Johnny Mercer to grow up in.

The second, quiet, section for four dancers used some gestures of restraint.

With these and other gestures of restraint, King Gyanendra has seemed sensitive to the public mood.

Moss and others sometimes swarmed the pulpit when they heard a particularly heated cadence, pantomiming gestures of restraint that came to seem indistinguishable from encouragement.

Last November, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, India's prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, announced a gesture of "maximum restraint" by Indian troops.

The Yankees could have decided, in a gesture of self-restraint, not to pay the superstar first baseman Jason Giambi more than his former team, the Oakland A's, did.

And if the production was a model of restraint, the same cannot be said for Kenny, whose histrionic gestures were an awkward distraction.

The sense of restraint is only heightened by the overhanging toxic cloud of midrange synth gestures, which writhe and wiggle like pinned butterflies.

Israel however, continued to show restraint and, as a gesture of good will, allowed approximately 90 trucks of medicine and goods including 500,000 litres of fuel and 200 tonnes of natural gas, into Gaza.

"We can exercise a bit of restraint.

"You showed a singular lack of restraint.