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So where does the restraint come from?

For 17 years up to 2001, I managed local-authority secure units, and saw issues with physical restraint come and go.

Out of these passages of pressure-cooker restraint come her great explosions of woodpecker footwork, the astounding bodily arcs that she holds and in which she unexpectedly revolves upon herself, suddenly focusing on a point of floor as if it were a snake she was defying, or standing stretched like a human bow for archery.

This may be a case of locking the stable door after the horse has bolted, but the problem is this: Knowing that you are going to live a life of restraint come this week, you are bound to have eaten as much as possible to get all those calories in under the wire.

Obama's remarks on fiscal restraint come just a day after the House of Representatives passed a fiscal stimulus plan worth $819 billion, one of the largest acts of government spending in the nation's history.

Anything that smacked of restraint came to seem like a bad thing to be eliminated.

Meanwhile, Obama's opponents went on the attack, and his restraint came across as weakness.

Their mood was sombre at first, but some other sentiment came to the fore, and their restraint came unmoored.

Part of the restraint came from a recognition that last year's shopping spree did not deliver results.

The restraint comes from the casting of two beloved old sitcom curmudgeons, Mr. Asner and Mr. Newhart, as Santa and his chief elf.

The E.C.B.'s restraint came in contrast to the action of the Bank of England, which announced another round of bond buying to support the slowing British economy.