Sentence examples for would have restrained from inspiring English sources

No other country would have restrained itself for eight years while its neighbors launched thousands of missiles against its civilians.

Grabbing random words out of her BlackBerry also seemed to set Dean's melodic gift free; a well-turned phrase would have restrained it.

They would have restrained it with a steel wire noose and brought it alongside the boat to determine if it was of legal size.

In his masterwork English Passengers, Matthew Kneale would have restrained himself from including chapters written in an Aboriginal's voice – though these are some of the richest, most compelling passages in that novel.

Interestingly, one American central banker has a more nuanced view, arguing that "in the current episode, higher short-term interest rates probably would have restrained the demand for housing by raising mortgage interest rates…In addition, tighter monetary policy may be associated with reduced leverage and slower credit growth".

Whether Sarbanes-Oxley, had it existed in the late 1990s, would have restrained Black's swashbuckling is doubtful.

So this proposal would not have restrained many prime ministers from having an election to suit their party.

It is not possible to know how much, if at all, Enron would have been restrained from its aggressive accounting had the task force chosen to enact more detailed rules.

Not that long ago, you would have been restrained with actual physical restraints for exhibiting "behavior problems" associated with dementia.

Her supporters would laud the court for having restrained a woman who, with blithe unilateralism, had attempted to put an ocean between a small boy and one of his mothers.

It is less clear, however, how the Middle East would have turned out if Israel had restrained itself in 1967.