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How to use restraining in a sentence

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He was restraining the furiously raw murderous rage boiling in his soul and the sewers of the ghetto all the while.
But before I could make my dramatic exit, Chad appeared out of nowhere and grabbed my wrist, restraining me from movement.
Three were restraining Gregory, whose volatile personality had turned foul.
Aridene nodded in the direction of the ropes that were presently restraining her.
Finally, psychiatrists in Britain and India diverged on the issue of restraining violent patients.
The FTC has requested a temporary restraining order to freeze the defendants' assets and possibly reimburse consumers.
Until the farmers and the cowboys can be friends, this court issues restraining orders against the two parties.
Besides, he was separated from Alice and she had a restraining order against him, so he wasn't suppose to come anywhere near her.
You'd have to file a restraining order to make us leave, and in order for that you'd have to explain why.
And if I ever find out you're trying to contact me, I'll get a restraining order.
Ben, I expect you to comply with the terms of the restraining order from this point forward.
She invents a charge of child abuse and gets a restraining order forbidding him from seeing the child.
They were also usually, if not always, a restraining influence on the more abrasive, if not irrepressible side of Mercer.
Whatever happens, we need to be conscious of restraining and controlling ourselves.
I am trying to think of an example of a contravention of this restraining order that would not turn upon presence in the premises.
In 1999, she obtained a restraining order against her estranged husband Simon, which limited his access to their children.
In that case the Court of Appeal refused to grant an interlocutory injunction restraining breach of confidence or breach of copyright.
Physical abuse is the willful infliction of physical pain or injury, e.g., slapping, bruising, sexually molesting, or restraining.
Public art had gone from being a spontaneous expression of popular will to a way of restraining and quietening the public down.
Several qualified female staff expressed intense feelings of distress associated with restraining patients.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The marshal approached and extended toward Sexton a copy of the restraining order.
It seems to be a closed system with no connection with the rest of the body except the restraining membrane.
Those that act directly upon the bacteria in milk, restraining or inhibiting their development.
He looked upon his duty as that of restraining and tempering Elwood's impulsiveness.
This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor.
To his father, the Lowlander, he probably owed his restraining sense of strategy and caution.
Mr. McKenzie had difficulty in restraining the nervousness of his annoyance.
Violently he shook off the restraining hand of Pierrot who sat on his left.
She flouted his authority and sustained her incredible effrontery by a restraining order from the court.
Certainly if the restraining order of Judges Wood and Grosscup be good law there is no sense in maintaining organized labor.
The Commons were not more enthusiastic about the bill restraining the payment of annates to the Court at Rome.
When her old self can be manifest without any controlling force subduing or restraining her, or inciting her to action.
However, Prince was able to land a restraining order that prevents Bell from setting foot on Belvedere, except for an hour on Mondays.
Kimberly Brusk had a temporary restraining order against her now ex-husband when he attempted to shoot her with a shotgun in her home.
Can you get a restraining order to prevent him from leaving?
The incorruptibility of Don Pepe was the essential and restraining fact.
Royalty, or kingliness, over life, restraining and glorifying.
A MAN who burgled a houseboat was yesterday jailed for a total of 20 months and banned by a restraining order from entering Conwy marina for three years.
But if I can be the means of restraining the publicity of the business, of limiting the exhibition, of concentrating our folly, I shall be well repaid.
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