Collocations withrestraint
These are words often used in combination withrestraint.
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budgetary restraint
The proposed price changes achieve a reasonable balance between the needs of processors, consumers and producers, and take account of the need for budgetary restraint.
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considerable restraint
He, like other wizard and muggle2 children, needs protection and care and friendship; he also needs to study and learn, develop self-confidence, make choices, and exercise judgment and considerable restraint.
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financial restraint
A weak economy for much of the nineteenth century seems to have placed a heavy financial restraint upon the parish.
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fiscal restraint
Other mental health providers did not have the same access to policy-makers, which was a major problem during times of fiscal restraint.
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judicial restraint
One calls for judicial restraint, the other for judicial activism.
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lack of restraint
Language was used which showed, in my view, a complete lack of dignity, not to say lack of restraint.
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maximum restraint
They call for good will on both sides and the maximum restraint on all sides so as not to aggravate an already delicate situation.
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monetary restraint
He has talked about fiscal policy and monetary restraint.
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moral restraint
Malthusian theories (specifically "moral restraint") were popularly characterized as irreligious and as a threat to conventional domesticity.
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physical restraint
That is, it might be objected that a credible threat is as much of a limit on freedom as is physical restraint.
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remarkable restraint
They have shown remarkable restraint so far, but their patience is becoming rapidly exhausted.
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restraint of trade
The company claimed that the exclusive beverage contracts were a restraint of trade, and therefore illegal.
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restraint system
We are seeking a price restraint system which will ensure that we do not produce too much.
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severe restraint
There will be no increases until after the period of severe restraint.
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utmost restraint
Pritchett therefore ordered his men to use the utmost restraint in arresting the demonstrators.
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voluntary restraint
Voluntary restraint in the length of speeches would be helpful all round.
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