Word: restraint
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...worst missile proliferators, suspected of selling to Iraq, Iran and Syria. North Korea fired a test missile over Japan in 1998 with an obvious aim to intimidate, and were it not for the 37,000 US troops stationed in South Korea, they might have even shown less restraint...
Some students, however, said they worried the class seating system might be an unwelcome restraint...
...particularly bleak. It was quite refreshing to read about a group of students truly disfruiting Harvard’s weekend offerings. Furthermore, the actions of the students profiled in the article were in no way dangerous or abnormal for people of their age; in fact, they showed far more restraint and responsibility than typical college students. While the University as a liberal arts school does have a responsibility to the students outside the realm of the intellectual, it should not impede normal social activity amongst them...
...Arab TV screens have been filled this week with images of mayhem in Gaza following Monday's Israeli raid on Hamas supporters in the Khan Younis refugee camp that killed at least 13 Palestinians. That left Hamas threatening new suicide attacks, Israel threatening further incursions and the U.S. urging restraint. And new conflict threatens on a second front, as Lebanon prepares to start pumping drinking water on Wednesday from the Wazzani river, which flows into the Sea of Galilee, Israel's primary freshwater source. Israel is fiercely opposed to the Lebanese plan, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has threatened...
...Israel from attack by Hussein. Hussein, an true war criminal, has proven his willingness to use weapons of mass destruction through his treatment of his own Kurdish population, and in his war with Iran. Israel cannot risk an attack of this kind upon its own soil with promises of restraint in the face of war. Hussein understands strength, and he must be shown that Israel cannot be attacked with impunity...