Word: restraint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...settled norms of the law of armed conflict require two forms of self-restraint by fighting forces: "discrimination" and "proportionality." Civilians and civilian places are to be kept distinct from military targets and protected from deliberate attack. Any action against military targets must be mounted so as to avoid unreasonable harm to civilians. But the fog of war and an adversary's misuse can make these principles harder to apply in practice, even for the most conscientious military forces. What is to be done when a sniper is shooting at your forces from an apartment-house rooftop? A civilian residence...
...Although Israeli forces continued to mass at the edge of the territory Friday following a cabinet decision to authorize a retaliation for Tuesday's Hamas suicide bombing in Rishon Letzion, politicians and generals debated the wisdom and purpose of such an operation - and the U.S. was reportedly quietly urging restraint on the Israelis, while pressing the Palestinians to crack down on terrorist groups...
Owners and managers of feedlots sometimes have a hard time comprehending that if devices such as dip vats and restraint chutes are properly designed, cattle will voluntarily enter them. Because I think in pictures, I assume cattle do too. I can imagine the sensations the animals feel. Today half the cattle in the U.S. are handled in equipment I have designed...
Other publications did not exercise such restraint. This esteemed paper did not ease the flow of virulently anti-Palestinian articles and images in its editorial pages: while Israeli soldiers were besieging Ramallah, Qaluilya, Nablus, Tulkarm, Bethlehem and Jenin, The Crimson published a cartoon of a vicious serpent besieging a Herculean Israel (April...
...then the big, welcoming surprise: the sharply angled roof of the Tramway Gas Station looming over a low wall at the entrance to the desert resort, like a jet poised for takeoff. Tramway Gas, designed by Albert Frey and Robson C. Chambers in 1965, is iconically modern. Balancing restraint and exuberance, it promises an infinitely perfectible future. And it opens the door not just to Palm Springs but to one of the richest collections of Modernist architecture anywhere...