verb
definition
To control or keep in check.
definition
To deprive of liberty.
definition
To restrict or limit.
example
He was restrained by the straight jacket.
noun
definition
The act by which someone or something is restrained.
Examples of restraining in a Sentence
Jackson would have no difficulty restraining Elisabeth.
No, a restraining order wouldn't stop him from finding me if he wanted to, and it might just make him mad enough to do something worse.
Successes were limited for the week with one found child, accidently trapped in a locked room of an empty house and one spousal abduction, in the face of a restraining order.
I think it's time to get that restraining order – before she does something.
The next week they got the restraining order, but as Carmen witnessed one day on her way home, it didn't stop Lori.
It exercises only, therefore, such jurisdiction as the high court of admiralty exercised, apart from restraining statutes of 1389 and 1391 and enabling statutes of 1840 and 1861.
I think it's time to get that restraining order – before she does something.
The restraining order is effective through August 2009.
On the other hand, La Marck thought that Montmorin's feebleness was occasionally useful in restraining Mirabeau's impetuosity.
To the older and more luxurious lyrics, as reprinted in 1842, Tennyson did not spare the curbing and pruning hand, and in some cases went too far in restraining the wanton spirit of beauty in its youthful impulse.
Fox acquired the conviction that, if the House was to be made an efficient instrument for restraining the interference of the king and for securing good government, it must cease to be filled to a very large extent by the nominees of boroughmongers and the treasury.
The governing council, which had been organized to represent him in Germany, fell rapidly into disrepute, and exercised no restraining influence on those princes who might desire to act on Luther's theory that the civil government was supreme in matters of Church reform.
To the advances of the French government he at first turned a deaf ear, but when the rapprochement between the two countries was effected with little or no co-operation on his part, he utilized it for restraining France and promoting Russian interests.
It has in more than one instance already exercised its power as a checking and restraining authority with good effects - its amendments even on substantial points having been several times accepted by the Lower Chamber.
A red-haired Jew, he possessed a magnetic and artistic temperament, and had various special methods of arousing and restraining the revolutionary masses, including orchestral and vocal concerts of high excellence in the formerly royal theatres and the opera house of Munich.
In 1854 he became Indian agent at Taos, New Mexico, in which position, through his knowledge of the Indian traits and language, he was able to exercise for many years a restraining influence over the warlike Apaches and other tribes.
In this position, during the strike of the railway employes in Chicago in 1894, he instructed the district attorneys to secure from the Federal Courts writs of injunction restraining the strikers from acts of violence, and thus set a precedent for "government by injunction."
The international concert defined in the treaty of Berlin had been rudely shaken, if not destroyed; the denunciation by Austria, without consulting her co-signatories, of the clauses of the treaty affecting herself seemed to invalidate all the rest; and in the absence of the restraining force of a united concert of the great powers, free play seemed likely once more to be given to the rival ambitions of the Balkan nationalities, the situation being complicated by the necessity for the dominant party in the renovated Turkish state to maintain its prestige.
It proceeded much more rapidly after the restraining influence of the missions was removed, leaving them free to revert to savagery; and the downward progress of the race was fearfully accelerated during the mining period, when they were abused, depraved, and in large numbers killed.
They also expressed the opinion that carbolic acid was a valuable agent in restraining tetanus growth when added to plague prophylactic, ' and they, therefore, thought that its omission was a grave mistake.
The pack has the double effect of restraining his movements and thus lessening the production of heat, while at the same time it dilates the vessels of the skin and produces loss of heat.
This was directed against a recent tract by Malthus entitled Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restraining the Free Importation of Foreign Corn.
His services to morals do not consist in any positive contributions to the notions of active duty, but in the strength with which he has realized and expressed the restraining influence of the old Roman and Italian ideal of character, and also of that religious conscience which was becoming a new power in the world.
He also exerted himself to get measures put in execution for restraining the vandalistic fury against the monuments of art, extended his protection to artists and men of letters, and devoted much of his attention to the reorganization of the public libraries, the establishment of botanic gardens, and the improvement of technical education.
The railways determined to evade the law, but Taylor promptly brought suit in the State Supreme Court and an injunction was issued restraining the companies from disobedience.
In answer to this argument some necessarians have admitted that punishment can be legitimate only if it be beneficial to the person punished; others, again, have held that the lawful use of force is to restrain lawless force; but most of those who reject free-will defend punishment on the ground of its utility in deterring others from crime, as well as in correcting or restraining the criminal on whom it falls.
In 2001, a leading conservationist was jailed but the illegal fishermen he was restraining were released from custody.
Kewell is also claiming an injunction restraining the defendants from repeating the allegedly defamatory views.
Restraining the Harvest by keeping to one server may help, but cannot be considered foolproof.
Here, Mrs Y would be harmed by forcibly restraining her in order to insert the needle for anesthesia.
It is probable, from the absence of evidence to the contrary, that much of this severe legislation was never executed, and it was without doubt Cromwell's restraining hand which moderated the narrow persecuting spirit of the executive.
Nevertheless the critical and restraining tendency of Malherbe was not ill in place after the luxuriant importation and innovation of the Pleiade; and if he had confined himself to preaching greater technical perfection, and especially greater simplicity and purity in vocabulary and versification, instead of superciliously striking his pen through the great works of his predecessors, he would have deserved wholly well.
The long delay in announcing the assembly of the conference proved the extreme difficulty of arriving at any satisfactory basis of settlement; and though the efforts of the powers succeeded in salving the wounded pride of the Turks, and restraining the impetuosity of the Serbs and Montenegrins, warlike preparations on the part of Austria continued during the winter of 1908-1909, being justified by the agitation in Servia, Montenegro and the annexed provinces.
Pierre too when she had gone almost ran into the anteroom, restraining tears of tenderness and joy that choked him, and without finding the sleeves of his fur cloak threw it on and got into his sleigh.
Natasha, motionless on her knees (she was unable to stir), with frightened eyes riveted on him, was restraining her sobs.
It was afterward claimed that during the Second World War Attlee worked as a restraining influence on some of Churchill 's more wilder schemes.
While most states require your child to remain in a child restraining booster seat or car seat until at least the age of 7, some states only mandate six years or less.
He does have the right to ask for a restraining order if he feels threatened by you.
Sara Evans has been granted a temporary restraining order, which keeps Schelske from withdrawing money from their accounts.
According to Evans' attorney, the restraining order was amended after Schelske withdrew a large sum of money on the same day Evans filed for divorce.
Farrell successfully obtained a restraining order, prohibiting Bradford from being within 150 yards of Farrell, his ex-girlfriend, Kim Bordenave, and their son James.
Another positive note is that Sam Lutfi was finally officially served his Temporary Restraining Order papers, although the rumor is that it took so long to serve him the papers, they are now null and void.
Why she hooked up with the then married man, one can only guess, but the "relationship" fizzled almost as quickly as it heated up, resulting in Brit's camp filing a restraining order against the man.
The original restraining order expired, but Britney's people have refiled the order against Adnan Ghalib and former manager Sam Lufti recently.
Plus, the whole restraining order thing probably makes it difficult for the two to be together.
She has filed a restraining order against the two photographers involved.
The judge even took it a step further and issued a temporary restraining order against Love.
A judge granted Bullock a restraining order against the fan, who pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault and stalking.
In 2009, Bella filed for divorce, and a year later, filed a restraining order against Furlong.
Control of movement requires complex feedback between the muscles promoting a movement, those restraining it, and the brain.