Sentence examples for restrained if from inspiring English sources

Demand may be restrained if growing traffic congestion outpaces even China's vigorous road-building programme.

Developmentally, China's growth is soon going to be restrained, if it isn't already, by a sheer shortage of energy.

Mr. Sharon has suggested that he might not be restrained if Iraq attacked Israeli cities again, especially if it used biological or chemical weapons.

Even smacking parents are restrained if their obedience to the Old Testament exhortation "he who withholds his rod hates his son" leaves more than transient redness.

Excessive short-term risk taking would be substantially restrained if all incentive compensation had to be paid in stock and that stock was required to be held throughout and for several years following the end of the executive's tenure.

He wrote a cryptic letter to Casares on 23 June, suggesting that the military was disloyal, but could be restrained if he were put in charge.

I don't think England would restrain if anybody showered Yorkshire with 10,000 rockets.

(A pause for basic truth: Wind power is providing tremendous value around the world, with lower polluting energy that is helping restrain (if not drive down) energy prices.

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.

For nearly eight years, David Thompson felt restrained, as if he were a prizefighter forbidden to throw his knockout punch.

One reason, suggests Mr White, is that if monetary policy is concerned solely with price stability, surges in credit will be restrained only if they trigger inflationary pressures.