RESTRAINT


Meaning of RESTRAINT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

advise caution/patience/restraint etc (= advise people to be careful, patient etc )

The makers advise extreme caution when handling this material.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

financial

The project has been somewhat hindered by financial restraints and much remains to be done.

great

So far, I had behaved with great restraint .

He impressed me as a physically powerful man operating for the moment under great restraint .

The increase in audit mandate of the six countries discussed has arisen largely because government agencies tend to exercise greater restraint .

With great restraint he said nothing.

legal

To put their project together, the two charities had to manoeuvre within a thicket of legal and professional restraints .

All legal restraints have been lifted so that they can now do as they will.

physical

However, it was said in Rawlings v Till that physical restraint was a battery.

In order to cope, one must understand something about a proper use of physical restraint .

In the acute excitement stages, when delusions of grandeur, loquacity and hyperactivity prevail, the patients require physical restraint .

The principle behind allowing care workers to use physical restraint is the serious threat to life and property.

But if the situation escalates, physical restraint is permitted.

He required physical restraint and was then taken to the local psychiatric hospital by the police.

Following admission he remained aggressive and required physical restraint .

prior

In order to invoke the rule against prior restraint , the defendant must state on affidavit his intention to justify the allegation.

The presumption should be in favor of publication and transmission rather than suppression or prior restraint , no matter what the medium.

Otherwise, the rule against prior restraint must prevail in libel actions.

An injunction imposes prior restraint , by stopping presses from rolling and film from running.

unreasonable

The covenant was held to be an unreasonable restraint of trade.

vertical

But we have seen that vertical separation with restraints may well be more socially undesirable than vertical integration.

Conceptually at least, this is reasonably straight forward. Vertical restraints come under a number of guises.

The positive analysis of vertical restraints within this framework can be taken a little further, with implications for normative issues.

This dictum applies particularly to price discrimination and vertical restraints .

Hence we turn to such matters and therefore to the question of vertical restraints .

■ NOUN

traffic

Speeds would have to be lowered, parking controlled and traffic restraint measures introduced.

In each town three options for traffic restraint had been tested, with before and after surveys of a number of criteria.

For these smaller cities, less expensive and more modestly scaled public transport and traffic restraint policies are more appropriate.

As these examples indicate, there have been great environmental gains in traffic restraint areas, quite apart from the traffic improvements.

wage

The trade unions are cajoled into issuing a statement that could just be decoded as implying support for further wage restraint .

Government also jumped on the bandwagon, first with wage restraint policies and later with restrictive monetary policies to reduce inflationary pressures.

In July compulsory wage restraint was ended, but the Price Commission was retained.

If the rise in unemployment has mercifully decreased, the pressure on wage restraints will have lessened.

■ VERB

advise

Hunt supporters have always been advised to exercise restraint .

call

Gaddafi later called for restraint and ordered troops to protect foreign missions.

exercise

The unconscious operates according to the pleasure principle alone - there are no values exercising restraint over instinctual impulses.

The market can not be expected to exercise self- restraint - this is the duty of government.

The increase in audit mandate of the six countries discussed has arisen largely because government agencies tend to exercise greater restraint .

Hunt supporters have always been advised to exercise restraint .

It pledged to continue the struggle for democratic representation but appealed to its supporters to continue to exercise restraint .

impose

The will or settlement may impose the restraint on anticipation.

An injunction imposes prior restraint , by stopping presses from rolling and film from running.

put

The trick is to make representatives more responsible or to put in place automatic restraints on spending.

He has been put in restraints again.

require

In the acute excitement stages, when delusions of grandeur, loquacity and hyperactivity prevail, the patients require physical restraint .

He required physical restraint and was then taken to the local psychiatric hospital by the police.

It would require specific restraints on Great Power conduct with respect to the neutralised country or region.

show

Its decision is therefore almost always to show restraint and to leave the scene as quietly as possible.

Quite a bit happens in the novel, but Haines shows refreshing restraint in her narration.

He personally showed admirable restraint after two poor decisions in one Test.

Director Andy Tennant keeps the pace moving and shows admirable restraint .

He urged employers and trade unions to show restraint in the 1990 wage round.

All things considered, I show admirable restraint .

use

Basil used his weapons with restraint and on legitimate targets.

The United States responded by informally requesting her partners to use restraint in exercising their right to convert dollars into gold.

The principle behind allowing care workers to use physical restraint is the serious threat to life and property.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Death was due to a lack of oxygen, caused by physical restraint .

Psychiatric hospitals have rules on the use of restraints on patients.

The situation called for great care and restraint .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At present, six children are killed and 400 hurt in a year in crashes because they were not wearing a restraint .

Because of the tremendous force from the launch, tight restraints are necessary.

But on top of this mathematical restraint on prices there is the confidence factor.

In order to cope, one must understand something about a proper use of physical restraint .

Naturally, you will have more room for manoeuvre if you have avoided agreeing to detailed and specific restraints.

The war years were however characterised by a period of judicial restraint .

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