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Restrained in sentence

213 examples of Restrained in a sentence

For its part, China’s economy seems to be partly kicking back into gear, despite the government’s restrained monetary and fiscal policy responses to date.
They, too, advocate a more restrained strategy, in which the US takes a hands-off approach wherever possible.
China expressed anger at the decision, insisting that its actions in Xinjiang are intended to “eradicate the breeding soil of extremism and terrorism”; but it is unlikely to be deterred by the relatively restrained US measures.
In Britain, the Conservative Party’s rejection of close ties with Europe is accompanied by threats to assault institutions that have hitherto restrained executive power.
Now, Brazil is shifting to a new economic model, in which lower-for-longer interest rates and increased private finance and investment make up for more restrained fiscal policies and reduced public-bank credit.
But, because Armenia’s geopolitical orientation wasn’t poised to change, the Kremlin seems to have restrained itself.
Wage demands may be restrained by fears of losing jobs to China, Mexico, or machines.
Thus, it is argued that the rule of law should be replaced by arbitrary government actions, that policy predictability is overrated, that administrative decrees can replace market prices, that incentives don’t really matter, and that government does not need to be restrained.
Though there could be some resistance from judges in the lower courts, the vast majority of whom have behaved honorably and independently so far, most will likely be restrained by the threat of removal.
The poise of her head on her fine broad shoulders, and the gleam of restrained excitement in her eyes and her whole face, reminded him precisely of how he had seen her at the ball in Moscow.
But in her expression of restrained excitement, which concealed something, he detected nothing except that beauty which, though familiar, still captivated him, her consciousness of this, and her desire that it should act on him.
And amid the silence, as a positive answer to the mother's question, a voice quite unlike all the restrained voices that had been speaking in the room made itself heard.
He looked as if he could have said much more, but restrained himself.
The young man, taking his half, restrained himself from devouring it all at once, and placed his arms on his thighs, so that she should not see how he trembled.
The force of the system alone restrained them, that military system which, from the trammer to the head captain, ground one beneath the other.
Chaval and Levaque, however, made a furious gesture, while Maheu restrained them by a glance, and Zacharie shrugged his shoulders chaffingly.
But shame restrained him before the young girl.
He no longer restrained himself; he stepped over the beams, for those two were too much occupied now to be disturbed.
He, always restrained, and taking refuge in the deceptive coldness of a man of business, was torn by desire for this creature, one of those late desires which are so violent and which increase with age.
The father and mother also restrained themselves, in order to leave more; but the old man greedily swallowed everything.
When he raised his head there were threatening men there, women drawing aside the curtains from their windows; and beneath this still silent accusation and the restrained anger of these eyes, enlarged by hunger and tears, he became awkward and could scarcely walk straight.
Another, a young man, was panting with the restrained fury of a storm.
She would have liked to go down and talk to the servant, but a sense of shame restrained her.
What restrained her was, no doubt, idleness and fear, and a sense of shame also.
What restrained her?
The fear of alarming her son and so making him fall restrained Madame de Renal from calling him.
He was restrained only by the maxim which he had laid down for himself, never to be too hasty in business matters.
Often his mistress's sincere admiration, and her transports of passion made him forget the fatuous theory that had kept him so restrained and almost ridiculous in the first moments of their intimacy.
Madame de La Mole, albeit of so restrained a character, would sometimes make fun of Julien.
He said to himself, like his master Tartuffe, whose part he knew by heart:'I might suppose these words an honest artifice Nay, I shall not believe so flattering a speech Unless some favour shown by her for whom I sigh Assure me that they mean all that they might imply.'(Tartuffe, Act IV, Scene V)'Tartuffe also was ruined by a woman, and he was as good a man as most ...My answer may be shewn ... a mishap for which we find this remedy,' he went on, pronouncing each word slowly, and in accents of restrained ferocity, 'we begin it by quoting the strongest expressions from the letter of the sublime Mathilde.
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