Sentence examples for modest restraint from inspiring English sources

With modest restraint, the Prince said, "Norbert thinks of me as an exotic fellow.

Almost in passing, the court added that aggregate contribution limits were a "quite modest restraint upon protected political activity" that "serves to prevent evasion" of the base limits.

As the court recognized in the Buckley case, they are a "quite modest restraint" that help prevent evasion of the per-candidate limit.

Four years later, in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (2014), the court also struck down FECA's aggregate-contribution limits, which the Buckley court had characterized as a "quite modest restraint upon protected political activity" and as "no more than a corollary of the basic individual contribution limitation that we have found to be constitutionally valid".

Wolters responded sarcastically in a letter which he signed, "Duke of Coburg," "I forgive you for not 'localizing' me in the diaries after your modest restraint in [Inside the Third Reich].

But this quite modest restraint upon protected political activity serves to prevent evasion of the $1,000 contribution limitation by a person who might otherwise contribute massive amounts of money to a particular candidate through the use of unearmarked contributions to political committees likely to contribute to that candidate, or huge contributions to the candidate's political party.

But advisers have also suggested more modest restraints on steel slab, used by smaller West Coast companies, and steel flanges, used by Detroit automakers.

Some people see Europe as a force for social protection, against a UK government that wasted public money taking a failed legal challenge against EU plans to put modest restraints on bankers' bonuses.

An overwhelming majority of Americans, including me and my hunting companions, believe in the right to own weapons, but surveys show that they also support modest restraints like background checks, mandatory registration and brief waiting periods before purchase.

Among the factors in the Portland market's stability are its modest size, restraint on speculative projects and diverse tenant base, including financial services, banks, insurance, health care and professional services companies.

The White House's idea of a tough budget was to make the existing tax cuts permanent and add new ones, to increase military spending, and to offset that largesse with modest spending restraint in government programmes, particularly in health care for the poor.But for America's lily-livered senators, even that seems too severe.