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What is self-restraint?

What is self-restraint? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Self-control, control over one's emotions, passions and actions.
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Conservatives practice this self-restraint, which is one reason they have gotten enough moderate voters to win recent elections.
Judges, as a matter of judicial self-restraint, cannot explain their decisions in public.
Although he has more at stake this year, his self-restraint on these matters, including the prison scandal, has not always prevailed.
I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint.
In no duty towards others is there more need of reticence and self-restraint.
We believe that the most effective enforcement tool is self-policing and self-restraint.

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