Example Sentences

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“That’s a self-limitation on the administration’s part,” he argued.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2022

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

A sense of self-limitation in no way curbed his efforts, though; he sometimes labored 14 hours a day in ill-paid laboratory research.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

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

It ignores a fact, vital to Christology, namely the k�n�sis or divine self-limitation.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)