"put restraint" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to control or limit oneself or others from acting impulsively or excessively. Example: The teacher asked the students to put restraint on their excitement during the field trip to avoid disturbing other visitors at the museum.
Beware of politicians who want to put restraints on the press.
In the decades since then, much to the dismay of defensive coaches, the most revealing football rules changes have put restraints on contact and otherwise eased the task of completing passes.
He has insisted that the Legislature work out a budget in public committee meetings without his help and has refused to put restraints on his right to veto spending he disagrees with.
Last year the Washington Post put restraints on journalists from expressing opinions on social networks "that could be perceived as reflecting political racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility".
They wanted me to put restraints on the guy.
"And it's making some people uncomfortable because you're putting restraints on an organization that didn't use to have restraints".
Some put this restraint down to lessons learned from the multiple mergers that created BofA.And the past few months have brought some signs of stabilisation.
After his death, The Daily Mail of London said of his personality: "A belligerent narcissist, filled with self-pity and towering anger, he never allowed concern for others to put any restraint on his appetites, whether it be for drink or drugs or sex".
By the time of Trott's admission, expert opinion had changed; in January 1898 The Argus reported a specialist's claim that the asylum was likely to make a patient, "just mad enough to be put under restraint"—that is, worse rather than better.
During her final months, she was repeatedly treated for infections and put in restraints or sedated to control agitation.
