"If we restrain ourselves to just once a year, then it won't wear out for a long time," he said.
Forgive us, though, if we restrain our enthusiasm.
We stress that, if we restrain ourselves to considering the original in vitro lactic acidosis signature, we have no ability to fit or predict any of these biological phenotypes (Table 3).
If the "cyclists stay back" sticker gives the message that cyclists are second-class road users, tolerated if only we restrain ourselves, don't get to uppity and make room for the grown-ups with their engines and smelly exhausts... well, that's what a lot of them probably think, even unconsciously.
Imagine the global geek savings achievable if we all restrained ourselves from buying addresses for every little idea we'd had.
It's really just math: most of our health-care dollars go, in one way or another, to health-care providers, so if we want to restrain the growth of health-care spending, less money will have to go to them.
Deploying U.S. strategic weapons on the peninsula is a necessary move if we are to restrain Kim's provocative actions.
Mr Pei describes a "buffet" dynamic among bureaucrats, whereby "if you restrain yourself, you won't get anything to eat".
If we want people to restrain themselves for the common good, the sacrifices we demand must be made by everyone.
Early in Reagan's administration, as a member of the president's economic advisory board, he supported Reagan's tax cuts "if spending was restrained" and if the Fed kept money tight.
