For Christians, lent is a period of self-restraint, marked by fasting, repentance, prayer and self-control.
Elizabeth complains: "Our importance, our respectability in the world, must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia's character".
Careful to avoid those pitfalls, Mr Netanyahu opted for prudence, talking tough but acting with often marked restraint.
So far Ukraine has showed, and Ukrainians individually have showed, marked restraint … but the longer this situation goes on, the more delicate it becomes".
This might seem a strange complaint, so let me explain: They had a lot of powerful, in-your-face flavor but none of the subtlety, none of the restraint and finesse which marks out a great Chardonnay.
This level was considered a mark of restraint.
A restraint on USSRThe question-mark against Indochina alone deserves a volume of explanation.
The only mark of restraint in industrial propaganda on environmental issues is that the strip-mining industry does not have a pavilion of its own.
Does a potential buyer encountering such a thing, either in a concert hall or in a record store, expect a reflective, analytic music marked by restraint and subtlety?
An entree of organic salmon, well marinated with lemon and dill and latticed with grill marks, reflected similar restraint.
