13 example sentences using self-restraint.
Self-restraint used in a sentence
Self-restraint in a sentence as a noun
They can't all be lost and the people who held on to them through the $250 peak have some serious self-restraint
"He was really hearing the crumbling of his own ethics and self-restraint.
We should not be relying upon government self-restraint.
They have no self-restraint when it comes to tracking the online behaviour of users.
Boys aren't coddled or soothed, they're expected to learn self-restraint, and expected to just get on with it.
It would be wrong even if it were effective at combating threats, but it isn't. The fact that the NSA wants even more of this kind of information is proof that the value of self-restraint is missing.
What replaces it is not necessarily a religion, but it serves the same purpose: morality and self-restraint.
Their self-restraint is admirable, but our societies are founded on law and democracy, not built on trust in the good natures of absolute rulers.
Constructing social/political/economic systems that reward power to those with self-restraint, and engender trust in those who could harm us is also important.
Our government, for better or worse, has life and death power over us, and I for one cannot abide a government whose agents show not the slightest decency or respect for the value of self-restraint.
With all that's being said about the NSA, and how we should add self-restraint, with all that the government is admitting about the current state of the NSA being bad, why not?If it's that clear that Snowden did the right thing, why not pardon him?
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of the new possessions they are about to obtain.
It also covers the difficulties: it's fun indulging in ivory tower engineering exercises, or decadent offices, or letting delusions of grandeur grow your staff too quickly, if you don't have the self-restraint needed to make sensible decisions every.
Self-restraint definitions
exhibiting restraint imposed on the self; "an effective temperateness in debate"
See also: temperateness