The Chancellor could argue that this outcome reflects the restraint exercised with respect to alcoholic drinks.

Mr. Abram praised what he said was "restraint" exercised by Israeli soldiers who, he said, are pelted regularly by Palestinian demonstrators with stones, bottles, burning tires and human excrement.

St. Laurent was criticized for a lack of restraint exercised on his minister C. D. Howe, who was widely perceived as extremely arrogant.

Such a position would involve easing or eliminating the restraints currently exercised by Investment Canada, the official review agency, and by other Government bodies.

The statement added that monitors also "witnessed restraint being exercised by security forces in the face of provocation and violence by demonstrators."

His restraint, exercised for so long, paradoxically excited her, because she felt no fear of him.

Also, any restraint exercised by banks was more than offset by sharp increases in property lending by non-bank financial institutions, such as leasing companies and insurance companies.

Mr. Olmert, then, clearly decided that the policy of restraint exercised by Mr. Sharon was not working, and he would lay down new rules.

Bombings by Sunni insurgents and Qaeda terrorists remain prevalent enough that the current restraint being exercised by most Shiite militias will be difficult to sustain.

I am told that yesterday, only for the restraint exercised by certain offended mountaineers on other grounds than your own worth, you would have been abbreviated by the head.