Word: restrainingly
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...More than golf courses are at stake. The central government is in the midst of the first comprehensive effort to restrain China's soaring economy in a decade, and whether the attempt is successful has global implications. Faced with overheating markets and rising inflation, Beijing wants to ease annual growth of gross domestic product (GDP) from the current rate of nearly 10% to a more manageable 7%. But China's policymakers may lack the monetary tools to engineer a soft landing, and the specter of a Chinese crash is contributing to fears that the global economic recovery-already under pressure...
...despite his admitted adultery with Abigail Williams (a girl less than 20 and he a farmer with three children). From the beginning his skepticism for the system bodes ill for his fate. He holds himself as the most enlightened of the village and doesn’t bother to restrain his hatred for Reverend Parris. As the whirlwind of madness enters even his house on the outskirts of the village he manages to keep his back straight and nearly unwinds the whole mad spectacle until it captures and1 breaks him. Hanley’s performance takes Proctor convincingly through...
...finally! Senior Bar! The right—nay, responsibility—to radiate a mature disdain for overeager first-years in section! The acquisition of business suits and of stockings and of shiny, pointy-toed pumps! My own bedroom! After the housing lottery, my roommate had to forcibly restrain me from visiting our new room with a tape measure. I had wanted to better envision how I would position the furniture...
...heart which overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time manages to restrain her verbal sweat glands and channel her energy into vigorous writing. But if you sweep away her layers of reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism...
...heart which overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time manages to restrain her verbal sweat glands and channel her energy into vigorous writing. But if you sweep away her layers of reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism...