Word: restraint
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...another protective factor, I’m not entering tournaments—it took a lot of restraint not to drop ten dollars on the college’s first campus-wide tournament, which began last week. But as a reward to myself for that show of restraint, two roommates joined me for a friendly game on a Wednesday night. So what if we don’t have a fourth? Good way to kill an hour, right? The three of us huddled around a ratty little Habitat for Humanity ottoman we bought for a dollar—which...
...indeed fades when the world has only neurotics for its brigands. And therein lies a lesson for the youth of today. If the world of tomorrow is to have creditable and esteemed handits it must have fewer of the uncertain and inadequate kind whose nerves disarm them of true restraint. Nerves in bandits and servants are without excuse...
...forty years ago was thrust under the door in the darkness of the night and burned by the janitor in the morning. The older generation was not angelic, but it rigorously suppressed or carefully concealed conditions which were not sanctioned by its code. Its goodness consisted largely in restraint and repression...
Johnson claims that Pusser actually showed great restraint in his actions. “He was always a reluctant hero—he was pushed to those circumstances,” he says...
...Coalition responses. But the U.S. long ago recognized that the IGC has limited support among Iraqis. Far more important than the Coalition military effort eliminate the Mahdi militia will be the stance adopted by Grand Ayatollah Sistani. Even if Moqtada himself may not accept Sistani's appeals for restraint, the supreme spiritual leader is nonetheless far more influential than the young upstart. Sistani has called for calm on all sides but has criticized the Coalition's handling of Moqtada's challenge. The IGC has once again been reduced to the supplicant role, sending a delegation on Wednesday to implore Sistani...