Word: restraint
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...city ordinance that strictly regulated adult bookstores and movie houses through zoning, licensing and inspection requirements. While endorsing the law's attempt to root out the urban blight and crime associated with such enterprises, the court concluded that the licensing scheme amounted to an unconstitutional "prior restraint" on speech because it did not impose a time limit for acting on applications and did not provide for prompt judicial review. However, the court unanimously upheld the Dallas ordinance as it applies to "hot sheet" sex motels...
Zealous idealists rarely get a chance to lead, and when they do, they rarely show much aptitude for the give-and-take of politics, the careful timing, the restraint. Yet in an irony more exquisite than any he ever envisioned for the stage, Vaclav Havel became not only the conscience but also the commonsense leader of the mass movement that led to Czechoslovakia's orderly ouster of its communist leaders. Having inspired fellow citizens by his rhetoric and unrelenting example, he heard them demand that he take over as head of state. That was not for him, he said...
...supposed to be carrying a gun, shot and wounded a Panamanian. It is possible too that Washington took Noriega's declaration of "war" more seriously than it was intended. Nonetheless, the President and his aides feared that Noriega had finally succumbed to hubris and lost all restraint...