Use "restraining" in a sentence
restraining example sentences
restraining
1. Someone is restraining this man of sin (the Antichrist)
2. God is restraining this for now
3. “I got hit with a restraining order the last time I was in there
4. moved crates and boxes back against the wall and replaced the restraining straps around
5. restraining hand on his colleague's arm and remained
6. Soissons placed a restraining hand on his arm
7. Francois placed a restraining hand on his shoulder
8. ‘I said…’ Josephine placed a restraining hand on her
9. passed through him and his arms, into the two agents restraining him
10. a restraining hand on his friend’s arm:
11. First, by restraining the competition in some
12. It is to prevent his reduction of price, and consequently of wages and profit, by restraining that
13. It is in this manner that the policy of Europe, by restraining the competition in some
14. ’ Jean held up a restraining hand
15. As Jean began to undress his friend placed a restraining
16. This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor
17. “When are we going to talk about the other night?” His tone was much lower than normal and I could see he was restraining anger
18. Towards the end of his reign, his son Lewis, known afterwards by the name of Lewis the Fat, consulted, according to Father Daniel, with the bishops of the royal demesnes, concerning the most proper means of restraining the violence of the great lords
19. After the institution of feudal subordination, the king was as incapable of restraining the violence of the great lords as before
20. By restraining, either by high duties, or by absolute
21. The French have been particularly forward to favour their own manufactures, by restraining the importation of such foreign goods as could come into competition with them
22. The extraordinary exportation of corn, therefore occasioned by the bounty, not only in every particular year diminishes the home, just as much as it extends the foreign market and consumption, but, by restraining the population and industry of the country, its final tendency is to stint and restrain the gradual extension of the home market ; and thereby, in the long-run, rather to diminish than to augment the whole market and consumption of corn
23. In their present state of improvement, those prohibitions, perhaps, without cramping their industry, or restraining it from any employment to which it would have gone of its own accord, are only impertinent badges of slavery imposed upon them, without any sufficient reason, by the groundless jealousy of the merchants and manufacturers of the mother country
24. It discourages the exportation of the materials of manufacture, and of the instruments of trade, in order to give our own workmen an advantage, and to enable them to undersell those of other nations in all foreign markets; and by restraining, in this manner, the exportation of a few commodities, of no great price, it proposes to occasion a much greater and more valuable exportation of others
25. Though by restraining, in some trades, the number of apprentices which can be employed at one time, and by imposing the necessity of a long apprenticeship in all trades, they endeavour, all of them, to confine the knowledge of their respective employments to as small a number as possible ; they are unwilling, however, that any part of this small number should go abroad to instruct foreigners
26. The constant view of such companies is always to raise the rate of their own profit as high as they can; to keep the market, both for the goods which they export, and for those which they import, as much understocked as they can ; which can be done only by restraining the competition, or by discouraging new adventurers from entering into the trade
27. The company had been suspected of restraining the trade and of establishing some sort of improper monopoly
28. With his right hand, his left restraining the arm still futilely clutching the gun, Jacob seized
29. ’ His voice tailed off as the nurse bit at her lip, restraining her exasperated reaction
30. could muster a protest, pulled down the padded restraining bar to activate the unit, and stepped
31. It is difficult to advise any course for the Government to stop such practices, as most stringent legislation is of little use in restraining accepted traditions, which the people are bound to follow by a superstitious dread of fearful penalties
32. There were no human rights within a constitution restraining the government
33. Until he felt the restraining hand on his arm and saw the helmsman glance back over his shoulder at them, Alex hadn’t realised he’d been shouting
34. The AFU focuses on restraining and forfeiting the proceeds of crime or the property used to commit crime
35. Maggie laid a restraining hand on my arm as I raised it to my lips
36. Leon pressed a restraining fingertip over Herminia’s pursed lips
37. Marcos put a restraining hand on his arm, retracting it quickly when the light blue eyes settled on his
38. His whole life he’d been like a saint, restraining himself from evening up the score for all the bullshit he’d taken from Sylvia year in and year out
39. In restraining the horse, Joseph hadn't managed to retrieve his bow
40. “Look,” he said, restraining her with a hand upon her wrist
41. selected to investigate was able to obtain a restraining order preventing them from testifying
42. something, devote study time to a subject, pursue a hobby or cast a restraining force on runaway thought
43. He had a rather resonant voice but was deliberately restraining it so it would not carry beyond the room
44. Restraining myself and loving others creates positive karmic seeds that will bear fruit in this life and beyond
45. If us guys can't learn to restrain ourselves well sexually before marriage then we'll be terrible at restraining ourselves during marriage when our wife isn't in the mood or doesn't have time or good health for sex
46. break down, failing even to register the restraining pleas of the
47. restraining the animal with incredible strength as it swung its
48. Because by restraining the rays of the sun through the
49. Don’t contact us or I’ll apply for a restraining order, and to think you are the father of my grandchildren, oh!”
50. These cases were “conservative” in their effect of restraining the expansion of government at the time
