Word: restrained
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Testifying in his own defense, Byrne admitted to less extensive physical contact with Trombly in the guard room but presented an alternate explanation, saying that he had rushed to restrain the student when he saw him reaching for a possible weapon in a deep denim pocket...
...Bush administration approach has been to act as if Arafat simply didn't exist - although it continued to restrain Ariel Sharon from expelling the Palestinian leader from the occupied territories, mindful of the regional crisis that such a move could trigger. Instead, Washington would simply ignore the elected leader of the Palestinians and deal only with the prime minister designated by the U.S. as Arafat's successor. And, so the theory went, by showing ordinary Palestinians that Abbas's pursuit of the roadmap brought progress towards statehood and an end to the occupation, Arafat would be cast into the dustbin...
Defense attorney Frank A. Libby Jr. said that Byrne attempted to restrain Trombly after the student suddenly reach into his baggy jeans pocket, for what turned out to be a cell phone...
...heat of the moment—“adrenaline racing, heart pounding”—Byrne reacted to restrain Trombly by pinning him to the wall, Libby said...
...most enduring legacy is in the less visible but crucial area of federalism--the balance of powers between Washington and the states. The Rehnquist court has sharply trimmed the power of Congress to tell the states what to do. His abiding belief that the Constitution was created to restrain the reach of the Federal Government has been his mantra as Chief Justice. Rehnquist did not always get his way: not on Miranda rights, which he opposed (though he wrote the 2000 opinion upholding them, acknowledging that the matter was now settled law), or on Roe v. Wade, in which...