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In Britain, the new chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, said on Monday that he would push through £6 billion ($8.65 billion) in spending cuts in an effort to convince skittish markets that the new government led by David Cameron was committed to fiscal restraint.
"The Lib Dems have already championed their commitment in 2010 by ending indefinite detention and are now willing to introduce a time limit alongside resettling 1,500 Syrian refugees and ending the use of pain as a form of restraint".
That would mean prior restraint , a concept that is anathema in America and other parts of the world, in which the state can effectively prevent a publisher from publishing, and I didn't want to get into that position.
In Syria, however, it has a few weapons and trainers and otherwise has acted with restraint.
But we have consistently made clear our grave concerns about the heavy toll of civilian casualties and have called on Israel to exercise restraint , and to find ways to bring this fighting to an end.
His big break came in 1976 when, in the middle of the crucial debate with the Wilson government over wage restraint , he deputised for Murray, who was recovering from a heart attack.
Also instrumental in maintaining calm on Tuesday night was Elijah Cummings, the US Representative for Maryland's seventh congressional district, who walked out into the crowd to call on both sides – police and protesters – to show restraint.
It was a refreshing surprise to encounter these glorious matriarchs in a country infamous for machismo and misogyny, where the stereotypical ideal female is the retiring mujer abnegada – a paragon of restraint and pious self-sacrifice.
The systems we have at the school on using restraint are very carefully thought out.
As Jonathan Eyal, of the Royal United Services Institute, puts it: "It was not the lack of sufficient knowledge about history and religion which led to the Iraqi debacle, but the lack of restraint among politicians who had all the relevant information at their fingertips".
Scottish Labour MPs were desperate for Miliband to go after Sturgeon, but he also had to counterbalance any attacks with the need to show he had the restraint and gravitas of a putative prime minister.
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The primary grammatical function of "restraint " is as a noun , representing the act of controlling or limiting something. Ludwig AI indicates the word is correct and usable in various contexts. Examples show its use in describing emotional control, financial policy, and physical control.
Expression frequency: Very common
