Restraint
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In a climate of budgetary
restraint
, it is unsurprising that the European Council agreed earlier this year to reduce the EU budget by 3.4% relative to the 2007-2013 MFF.
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Originally used as a means of restraining captives, it became sexualized and spreading across the globe as a kinky form of
restraint
with a respected and erotic aesthetic.
In America, before the motor vehicle, transportation depended entirely on the urban horse, which dropped, without restraint, 25 to 50 pounds of manure on the streets every day together with a gallon of urine.
John Locke: Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by common to everyone of that society and made by the legislative power erected in it, a liberty to follow my own will in all things where that rule prescribes not, not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man, as freedom of nature is to be under no other
restraint
but the law of nature.
And you think: fear,
restraint.
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