Sentence examples for more restrained use from inspiring English sources

Republicans predictably claimed he was hollowing out the force — but a smarter, more restrained use of force is just what the country needs to secure its vital interests.

He says that a more restrained use of air power on more carefully chosen targets would have been more effective in reaching Israel's strategic goals and would have reduced the sympathy for Hezbollah.

And for "First We Take Manhattan," a thumping beat and flashing, circling stage lights — suddenly active after hours of more restrained use — brought the show a moment of disco.

But I suspect it's also to do with the panel itself – with its emphasis on critics and academics and its more restrained use of celebrities (OK, it has Dan Stevens, that chap off Downton, but I believe he's a bookish type in any case).

But if the bluff-calling fails, an abrupt change in American policy towards a more restrained use of force abroad, and a considerably narrower national-interest definition when using it, could be more destabilising than it appears.For many Americans such a change is long overdue because (people hope) it will bring a greater degree of clarity and consistency to the conduct of foreign policy.

Just about this time, however, a tendency to more restrained use of color and more painterly effects began to emerge in nishiki-e, and with the exception of a burst of dynamic color in prints depicting the Sino Japanese War (1894 95), the uses of strong colors in Meiji prints receded.

This column's more restrained approach uses just milk, however - enough of it to cover the fish.

At the same time, we have strayed farther than we need have from Kennedy's more restrained, more purposeful use of the bully pulpit.

It is based on the idea that the country must be smarter and more restrained in its use of force — a relief after President George W. Bush's disastrous war in Iraq.

Only a few years back, though, the opposite was the case, and women were more restrained in their use of social Web tools.

Other environmental groups admire Mr. Amper, but use more restrained methods, in part to avoid lawsuits.