Sentence examples for restrained themselves from inspiring English sources

The band was both decadent and stubborn: virtuoso players who largely restrained themselves from soloing backing up a singer, Bryan Ferry, who refused to accept that he was in a rock band rather than a dinner party.

This seemed the place to insert the widely circulated video clip of his half-court basketball shot from last month, if his ad-makers were going to use it, but they restrained themselves and did not.

Instead, most of the villagers restrained themselves until dark and then slipped out beyond the lighted part of the camp to a place where the bulldozed earth had been left in rough hills and mounds.

From a road overlooking the scene in the remote Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, 150 miles east of San Diego, officers from eight federal and state agencies -- brought together this past weekend as a task force to quell the increasingly frequent disturbances here -- restrained themselves from going in, fearful that they would be pelted with stones and beer cans, as they have been before.

So far, at least, the authorities have restrained themselves.But some bar owners say they expected more customers.

"The referees have restrained themselves at this World Cup - you usually get a glut of cards because they are determined to clamp down right from the start.

For the most part, people restrain themselves.

Humans, as usual, couldn't restrain themselves.

They were unable to restrain themselves.

The musicians show off by restraining themselves.

"The officers seemed to kind of restrain themselves".