Sentence examples for not restraint from inspiring English sources

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Guides often hold a dying person's hands, he said, but for support, not restraint.

"The real spirit of the Atomic Age and the '60s and '70s was about freedom, not restraint".

"Smashing it" is the grail – a display of firepower, not restraint; a surfeit of heat, to the detriment of nuance.

Writer ends by saying what seems to be required is not restraint on the industrial powers but enforceable means of preventing military diversions.

More likely, when scientists sit down together, what gets passed on is not restraint, but skills and know-how of direct use in bomb-making.

At Bard College last weekend the approach was different: not restraint but bombardment, by means of six concerts supported by lectures, discussions and films, Mr. Kagel's included.

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Many measures like the use of bedrails or a geriatric chair - even without the patient's approval - were considered to be safety measures, not restraints.

That wasn't "restraint".

It's self-restraint, not physical restraint, that adults are supposed to exercise around children, even children who get themselves into trouble, as that young woman initially had, by striking a stranger on the street.

But it is evidence of remorse, not of restraint (and, even if it were, what restraint has to do with declaring American independence is bewilderingly unclear).

A monument to Burghley's knowledge, if not his restraint.

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