It makes me wish I had something understated and restrained – something, well, more English, more elegant and Julian Barnes-inh – in my nature and verbal armoury.
The niffler seems to be unable to restrain itself, whenever something shiny flashes nearby.
Plenty of financial-stability types regard competition as something to restrain, not encourage.Heaven knows, there are plenty of ways for bankers to put their houses in order.
As the oil ministers met in Vienna, there was great concern about whether the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would give the rest of the world a break and do something to restrain high oil prices.
These rules do something to restrain overspending, although it is notable they are aimed at a Manchester City project, which at least sees money going in, rather than the Glazers' milking of Manchester United for £550m to pay the interest and costs of their own takeover.
Once I started this book, I could not stop, although I had to restrain myself so I had something to entertain me on the plane home.
What anti-treaty Americans dislike most and this is nothing new is when a proposed treaty threatens to restrain America itself from doing something it might like to do.
Or can something be done to restrain companies, or at least to get them to exercise self-restraint?
Barack Obama, for one, fears that it will "open the floodgates to special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections".Can something be done to restrain companies, or get them to exercise self-restraint?But is that inevitable?
But at last something has happened to restrain them: Asia's economic crisis.On December 5th, shortly after he returned from a long overseas trip, Mr Suharto promptly disappeared; the government said he was taking a much-needed ten-day rest at home.
Both Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney agree that something must be done to restrain increases in the rising cost of a college education.
