Words similar to restraining

Example sentences for: restraining

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The statistics might seem cold, but it's impossib le to remain complacent after meeting someone like Katherine -- or a family who has been left homeless by an illegal eviction, a senior who lost his home to foreclosure from a crooked loan transaction, or a domestic violence victim unable to navigate the courts to get a restraining order.
Armey has been losing weight and restraining his proclivity toward quasioffensive humor.
Don't you think she's entitled to have a lawyer to get a temporary restraining order from this guy?"
The next thing to go would be the rules restraining the power of committee chairs, perhaps the only truly good deed of the Gingrich Congress.
All this beneath a headline that is simply extraordinary in this age of lawyers restraining editors restraining reporters: "HOW WAYWARD US PILOT KILLED 20 ON SKI LIFT."