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Sentence count:246+9Posted:2017-03-20Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: incitementSimilar words: restrainunrestrainedconstraintdire straitsnominal interest ratestrainstrainedconstrainMeaning: [rɪ'streɪnt]  n. 1. the of act controlling by restraining someone or something 2. discipline in personal and social activities 3. the state of being physically constrained 4. a rule or condition that limits freedom 5. lack of ornamentation 6. a device that retards something's motion. 
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121. In the early months, this restraint was next to impossible for them to achieve.
122. In the last three months of 1978, the Army in Teheran was patrolling under restraint.
123. Inside the White House, Clinton has apparently encouraged Gore to argue for or against policies without restraint.
124. For these smaller cities, less expensive and more modestly scaled public transport and traffic restraint policies are more appropriate.
125. Delay is without restraint and goes on answering the questions of reporters who followed him into the little side ante-room.
126. The Court of Appeal applied the restraint of trade doctrine and found that the agreement was reasonable.
127. She had applied more make-up than usual but with her habitual restraint.
128. However we have seen that quantum theory places considerable restraint on a plain man's objectivist view of the natural world.
129. Speaking of restraint, Henriksen, one of the most underrated talents in Hollywood, is terrific here.
130. Guidance delayed by legal hitch Restraint guidance for children in care, long delayed by the government, has hit another obstacle.
131. His contract of employment contained a restraint of trade clause.
132. Normally, the doctrine of restraint of trade has no application to such restrictions: they require no justification.
133. Director Andy Tennant keeps the pace moving and shows admirable restraint.
134. This means restraint in public spending and holding back the natural enthusiasm of a clutch of new ministers to open the purse strings.
135. And, although one part of her found it deeply frustrating, at another level Folly was grateful for his restraint.
136. Wage restraint, say Conservative Treasury spokesmen, is important to company viability and to controlling inflation.
137. The trade unions are cajoled into issuing a statement that could just be decoded as implying support for further wage restraint.
138. The war years were however characterised by a period of judicial restraint.
139. But on top of this mathematical restraint on prices there is the confidence factor.
140. Gaddafi later called for restraint and ordered troops to protect foreign missions.
141. After behaving with notable restraint during the election, she had been building up to this.
142. It's back to the dolly bird culture of the 70s[sentencedict.com/restraint.html], with none of the self-imposed restraint.
143. The final solution to the problem of the restraint of beasts.
144. The university has been under curfew and restraint for months.
145. Display material and literature relevant to restraint of infants have been posted in hospitals and maternity units in the Region.
146. He went on to say that the solutions are diversification, restraint, restructuring and strategic alliances.
147. That gave the journos their opportunity to hound De Gaulle without restraint.
148. Speeds would have to be lowered, parking controlled and traffic restraint measures introduced.
149. None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter.
150. Nixon entered the White House in 1969 committed to budgetary restraint and reducing spending on welfare programmes.
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