Word: restrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev may also have been displeased by a pair of letters, pro and con, about his own performance as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet. "Many thanks to M.S. Gorbachev for his self-control, his modesty, his culture, his ability to listen, to restrain and persuade several undisciplined Deputies," went one missive. But another writer castigated Gorbachev for "the way he forces his opinion on Deputies, his commentaries on many speeches, the elections without alternative candidates, the pressure shown during voting...
...balcony overlooking Tiananmen Square and said, "The Chinese people have stood up, and the future of our nation is infinitely brighter." Infinitely messier is closer to the mark today. The economy's course is uncertain. Provincial and municipal governments will surely pursue their own interests despite efforts to restrain them. The party, with its ideology bankrupt, offers only order and is begging for faith -- and not getting it. How long can a government like that retain control and stay in power? "A regime that . . . is forced to fire on the young, who protest in the name of liberty," said French...
...sense, Guangdong can be viewed like the Soviet Union's Baltic states, the province's relative wealth representing a willingness to stretch the rules to fit whatever works rather than restrain expansion to fit the rules. Left alone, which it may not be, Guangdong will continue to provide the nation with both hard currency and an example of entrepreneurship at full throttle...
There were the usual protests, with the usual results, but Hitler's seizure of Bohemia and Moravia had two important consequences. First, Chamberlain finally realized that appeasement would not suffice to restrain Hitler. So when Hitler began talking to the Poles in that same month about the Germans' need to regain the port of Danzig, plus free passage through the Polish Corridor, Chamberlain offered the Poles an unsolicited guarantee of British military support. It was that guarantee that Hitler flouted the following September...
...abortion, they are increasingly running up against policies of their news organizations that discourage or forbid such advocacy. Thus a debate is currently simmering in newsrooms, editorial offices and journalism schools over the rights of reporters to express their personal views vs. the rights of their employers to restrain them in the name of preserving their publication's reputation for fairness in news coverage...