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RESTRAINING

Traducere în limba română

restraining I. substantiv

1. restricţie; constrângere.

2. înfrânare, reprimare (a unei pasiuni etc.).

3. detenţiune (a cuiva).

restraining II. adjectiv

restrictiv.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The man had gained his feet and was struggling to escape the restraining arms that were laid on him.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The heart and hand of the good angel Spenlow would have been always open, but for the restraining demon Jorkins.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I had no difficulty in restraining my voice from exclamation, my step from hasty advance.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I understood the whole argument of that firm, restraining grip—that it was no affair of ours, that justice had overtaken a villain, that we had our own duties and our own objects, which were not to be lost sight of.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But with this approach to his name ended all possibility of restraining her feelings; and, hiding her face as well as she could with her handkerchief, she darted across the hall, jumped into the chaise, and in a moment was driven from the door.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

We have of late come to understand that sunrise and sunset are to her times of peculiar freedom; when her old self can be manifest without any controlling force subduing or restraining her, or inciting her to action.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind: his praise and notice were more restraining than his indifference.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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