Sentence examples similar to self control defence from inspiring English sources

The exclusion of infidelity as an allowable trigger for a loss of self-control defence was not because legislators thought it didn't make both men and women angry but because it is contrary to modern public policy to allow it as a defence to murder.

Gary Smith, the acting Scottish regional secretary for the GMB union, which has several thousand members in defence jobs, accused conference delegates of being self-indulgent, since the Scottish party did not control defence policy – an area reserved to Westminster.

"Self control," he said.

Amazing powers of self control.

7. "Self Control" (C.

Self Control.

Learn some self control.

Gauge your self control.

Self control when eating.

Have self control.

I remember how towards the end it felt like a dam giving way by degrees, the loss of courtesy and caution, the breakdown of civility and self-control: these defences seemed to define the formal core of marriage, of relationship, to articulate the separation of one person from another.