Word: restraint
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...never had to shift above fourth gear to feel like a human cannonball and pull all the Le Mans moves I could safely muster. With four-wheel drive and Pirelli 18-in. tires, the car never felt unstable. But here's the rub: it takes every ounce of restraint not to break the speed limit in this bull, yet the sound of the engine behind you is so overwhelming you may not notice the state trooper until he's on your tail. Your only hope: that he's content to hover and snap pictures with his cell-phone camera with...
...ready to compromise years of progress in the women's movement for equality. Though women are the only ones physically getting abortions, they are not the only ones having sexual intercourse. Sullivan's assertions that the decline of teenage pregnancy is due in part to "sexual restraint among young women" and that abstinence programs "can work for some women" appear to exclude men from the equation, as if women alone were the guardians of sexual morality. If the goal is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, then educating young men about abstinence and sexual responsibility is just as important...
...things they will have to attend to is the practice of printing news which might interfere with the detection of a crime. I think I appreciate the importance of a free press. But I am quite unable to believe that the Press would be less free if some reasonable restraint were put upon its right to make instantaneous copy out of clues which are vital to the detection of a crime. . . . It is often said that hard cases do not make good law. The Lindbergh case is certainly a hard case...
...critics do become engaged, the tone borders on malevolence, most of which is directed against the grandmother Madea character. Perry acts the part himself—in drag—with such reckless abandon he makes Robin Williams’ Mrs. Doubtfire appear a model of subtlety and restraint. During the course of the film, Madea brandishes a pistol, vandalizes a mansion with a chainsaw, and smokes copious amounts of marijuana...
...vindicated with the evident failure of Maskhadov’s moderate approach; whereas Maskhadov’s conventional guerrilla tactics—even the occasional call for a peaceful solution—led him to ineffectual death in a hovel, Baseyef, operating without moral compass or any sense of restraint, continues to achieve spectacular “successes,” such as the Beslan triumph...