In the US, a White House spokesman urged the Hong Kong authorities to "exercise restraint" and protesters to "express their views peacefully".
Washington urged Hong Kong authorities "to exercise restraint and for protesters to express their views peacefully".
The song's lyrics created the perfect backdrop on which to display the struggle often created by being a black male in America - subjected to heightened scrutiny, and physical as well as emotional restraint, while still attempting to express an identity largely defined by your experience within society.
Then, as now, Mr. Obama has moved gingerly, placing a call to President Mohamed Morsi late Monday evening with a message not unlike the one he delivered to his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, two and a half years earlier: Exercise restraint and allow the protesters to express their views peacefully.
The work clashed with the classical ideal requiring a dying hero to express stoic restraint.
Perhaps the youngsters felt compelled to express themselves with restraint in front of grown-ups, or at least in front of cameras.
"And we have high hopes that the Hong Kong authorities will exercise restraint and respect the protestors' right to express their views peacefully".
Gen. Loretta Lynch placed calls to Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier and Standing Rock Tribal Chairman David Archambault, and later released a statement urging "everyone involved to exercise restraint, to refrain from violence and to express their views peacefully". .
With Karen, born and socialised as female, we raise the idea that the typical difference between the way men and women are taught to express themselves is that restraint is constantly expected and demanded of women, far more than men.
Wayne rarely tried to express divided emotions, but his restraint in films like "The Quiet Man" suggests an exquisite control over his simpler ones.
