Word: restrained
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Soon afterwards, in his first public appearance since he was sworn in, Kibaki called for calm, said he would talk to "concerned parties" once that was achieved and urged "leaders" to restrain themselves and their supporters "from engaging in unlawful activities." Security forces will remain "vigilant" and "deal firmly" with those who broke...
Enter Countess Popova (Eve H. Bryggman ’10), a velvet-clad Russian vamp who rents a room beneath the Marcassols. Unable to restrain himself, Gustave quickly becomes more than just the Countess’ landlord. But he is convinced that he can only run away with her if he can secure a suitable second husband for Claudine...
...While they may restrain him from concluding a pact of such epic importance, Singh can ill afford to lose the support of the communists, because their departure from his coalition would have forced snap elections 18 months early. If he had been counting on convincing the Left to drop its opposition to the deal at the eleventh hour, he has badly miscalculated. Communist demands that the government refrain from negotiating nuclear safeguards with the IAEA - the next phase of implementing the deal - have prevailed, and it is the government that appears to have been forced to back down...
...party may take a dramatic turn to an unexpected nominee also as a result of an authentic internal debate about its direction. Republicans continued to struggle with the legacy of F.D.R. after World War II, generally trying to restrain New Deal programs rather than repudiate them. The right wing of the party was largely muzzled until Ronald Reagan won his third race for the nomination and ushered in a new paradigm of supply-side tax cuts and more conservative policies...
...really attracted to boots. If a guy has sick boots, I can’t do anything to restrain myself...