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Recent Examples of self-control The members of the team individually and collectively have to own their own self-control and mental toughness, with the freedom to adapt as appropriate and needed. George Bradt, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025 For instance, trust will be eroded when a person demonstrates a lack of temperance, which manifests as being agitated, impatient, inattentive, rash, and anxious instead of being composed, patient, prudent, self-controlled, and calm. Mary Crossan, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025 Researchers found that people who accepted their emotions while watching a sad video performed better on a later self-control task than those who tried to suppress their emotions. Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025 That means making sure the youngster can demonstrate enough self-control that allows the educational process to function. Vincent Turley, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for self-control
Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-control
Noun
  • The chance that American attacks on Houthis could prompt attacks on Saudi Arabia and a renewal of the kingdom’s brutal war in Yemen was a chief concern of the Biden administration, a prime reason that White House operated with a degree of restraint in its strikes on Houthi targets.
    New York Times, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Sullivan, 56, was charged with first-degree unlawful restraint, cruelty to persons and first-degree reckless endangerment.
    Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Ritchey sees the fantastic as the foil to the Germanic Bildungsroman, which influenced continental Romantic arts across disciplines.
    Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2025
  • In East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland, ministries dictated curricula, Marxism-Leninism became mandatory across disciplines, and admissions were reengineered to favor students from loyalist backgrounds.
    Iveta Silova, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Read More: 8 Things to Say During a Fight With Your Partner Swearing seems to help people shed their social inhibitions, according to Stephens, one of the study’s authors.
    Stacey Colino, Time, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Those raising awareness of the Arabic Facebook posts feel no such inhibition.
    Ben Sales, Sun Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Documenting Jenna’s bold art and activism, this film offers a powerful, intimate look at resilience under repression.
    Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
  • It has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America's Old West and as a tool of terror and political repression in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2025

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