self-limitation
- a word derived from self-limiting.
Example Sentences
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“That’s a self-limitation on the administration’s part,” he argued.
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2022
His only self-limitation, apparently, is plausible deniability — a moral framework that seems to be based on old episodes of “The Sopranos.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2019
To a civilization shaped by unappeasable human will and ambition Gandhi counterposed a civilization organized around self-limitation and ethical conduct.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
To thoughtful citizens Mr. Devree's alternative remedy seemed more sensible: unworried self-limitation and severity on the part of reviewers.
From Time Magazine Archive
International treaties are no absolute limitation, but a voluntary self-limitation of the state, and only for such time as the state may find to be convenient.
From Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History
