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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If you practice self-restraint and moderation, you should be able to stay on your diet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Buddha established his belief system built around the principles of self-restraint and caring for the poor.
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But it is not generally the stuff that appears on television, where self-restraint has become the norm.
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Indeed, the research community's self-restraint may have been carried too far.
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It faces several more years of economic self-restraint , with no real easing in prospect until the second half of the 1990s.
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With great self-restraint , he did not grab the rod from his friend's hand.