Word: restraint
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...makes one wonder how well he understands all that history of former Presidents that he has read and pondered, in which political success almost always is rooted in a preponderance of personal discretion, discipline, restraint, candor and courage. Harry Truman: The kitchen is hot. Live accordingly...
...second largest in the country. Some were Tutsi, but many were Hutu who feared that the rebels, now controlling much of eastern Rwanda and threatening to capture Kigali, would exact revenge for the massacres. One U.N. peacekeeping official, however, observed last week that "the Tutsi have shown remarkable restraint -- there's been no ethnic cleansing in the Tutsi areas. They are not doing the kind of killing that the government is doing." In all, about 1.7 million Rwandans, out of a population of 8.1 million, have fled their homes. Most remain within the country, dodging the army, the gangs...
...government, however, is a completely different story. When Congress wastes taxpayers' hard-earned income, it can simply raise taxes. The government has no restraint to its tax-and-spend wishes. Because of this, it's no surprise that both taxation and spending have gone up and up ver the past few decades...
...time for giving credit to those who played a part. Credit lies overwhelmingly, of course, with those leaders and people in South Africa who resisted the tide of violence and forged forward with democracy. At times, a tide of violence seemed ready to overwhelm the transition. It was the restraint of leaders and the courage of citizens that made peaceful elections possible...
...massacre obviously affords these leaders an opportunity to rail against Israel, and it will take a large measure of restraint to pass up the chance. Palestinian leaders must not try to use the massacre as an excuse or breaking the agreements that have been worked out with Israel...