Sentence examples for restrained when from inspiring English sources

President Bush was notably restrained when he dryly characterized the actions yesterday as "not helpful".

It was based on the theory that prices will be restrained when the supply of money is controlled.

"Shallow Hal," their new movie, is comparatively restrained when it comes to bodily effluvia and leering dirty jokes.

How many grandmothers drowned?" He said those emotions were barely restrained when the region's governor, Aleksandr Tkachev, met with residents on Sunday.

Inhibited children, who account for 10 20 percent of all one-year-old children, tend to be shy, timid, and restrained when encountering unfamiliar people, objects, or situations.

He seems to have been one of those superdominant people who are megalomaniacal when out of power but restrained when in it.

Onlookers tackled and restrained him when he paused to reload.

Mr. O'Donoghue is a tender, thin singer, restrained even when his feelings are at full bore.

Edwin said he mostly avoided such punishments, though he was restrained once when he acted out in Highland's gym.

According to the police report, two graduate students came across Turner on top of the unconscious victim next to a dumpster, restrained him when he tried to run, and called the police.

During Margaret Thatcher's funeral on Wednesday, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres, the bishop of London, boasted to all and sundry of how the late prime minister had once physically restrained him when he lunged at some pulverised ducks' breasts.