In his speech, which opened this year's legislative session, Governor Rowland set a tone of fiscal restraint, warning lawmakers to whittle down their wish lists.
In a tone of acid restraint that suggested she had learned a thing or two from her husband on how to handle the media, the former actress and mother of three of Mr Berlusconi's five children said his remarks were "unacceptable" and "damaging to my dignity".
But as the president signed a $680 billion military policy bill on Wednesday, it was clear that he had succeeded in paring back nearly all of the programs and setting a tone of greater restraint than the Pentagon had seen in many years.
At 13, with her rendition of the song "Blue," she was destined to be the next Patsy Cline — both singers of remarkable tone and restraint — which was a lot of pressure to put on someone who had barely hit puberty.
In thankful contrast, her latest novel, "Red Hook Road," is a kind of literary tourniquet, a model of restraint, almost Victorian in tone and theme.
Obama's inaugural address received mixed reviews, with some describing the tone of the speech a praiseworthy one of restraint and plain speaking, while others described the speech as low-brow and cliched.
Dusapin approaches the material with admirable restraint; the tone of the opera, which unfolds in an unbroken ninety minutes, is grave and meditative, with chantlike lines rising over extended drones and impressionistic washes of timbre.
Among the three type of restraints as described above, substrate restraint is thought to be properly reflecting the actual restraint in patch repair system.
But if the design is the height of restraint and good taste, other elements lower the tone.
Published when its author, Françoise Sagan (pseudonym of Françoise Quoirez), was only 19 years old, this novel of adolescent love was written with "classical" restraint and a tone of cynical disillusionment and showed the persistence of traditional form in the preferred fictions of the novel-reading public.
