Word: restrain
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...order to convince, cajole and forcibly restrain Palestinians from launching attacks on Israelis, say Abbas's supporters, the new prime minister desperately needs Israel to begin withdrawing from West Bank towns and cities - both to allow the reconstituting of the official Palestinian security structures as the effective authority in those areas, and also to demonstrate that the non-violent path can bring results. But troop withdrawal may be a tall order for the Israelis as long as terror attacks continue - which they almost certainly will, since they're traditionally the preferred means by which the Islamists and other radical groups...
Even by the standards of hardball lobbying, it's a startling claim: suicides will surge if a bill to restrain Medicaid spending on prescription drugs is passed. But that's what one lobbyist for Eli Lilly said to Minnesota state Rep. Fran Bradley's face recently. "My phone has rung off the hook with people telling me I'm going to cause a severalfold increase in suicides," said Bradley, a Republican who previously won awards from state mental-health advocates for his progressive legislation...
...there is ample historical precedent to doubt that the government is willing or able to restrain itself from harassing its opponents. The era of unconditional trust in the government ended with Vietnam and Watergate; it was not so long ago that the FBI was spying on “suspicious” individuals like Martin Luther King Jr. and “communist-infiltrated” organizations like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference...
...Gaulle said he was motivated always by "a certain idea of France." Nostalgia for that exalted status, hunger for imperial gloire, is what animates French policy today. France does not expect to rival America but to tame it, restrain it, thwart it - and to accept the world's laurels for having...
...Gaulle said he was motivated always by "a certain idea of France." Nostalgia for that exalted status, hunger for imperial gloire, is what animates French policy today. France does not expect to rival America but to tame it, restrain it, thwart it--and to accept the world's laurels for having...