Israel has offered to restrain construction on settlements in the West Bank, but has made no offers regarding construction in East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

To cope with it, they urged human beings to restrain their overarching ambitions.

为了解决这一问题,希腊人力劝人们抑制过度膨胀的欲望

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It reveals maybe a little bit of the power and extravagance and glory that you feel in her poems but that she preferred always to restrain and bind and control in extraordinary ways, and not always to hide.

这可能显露出了她诗中所蕴含的,力量，铺张和骄傲，尽管她一直极力压制着,以及非凡的约束和自制，她并不总是隐藏这些。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

"The message that we have communicated to all our brothers including Malema himself as president of the Youth League is that,'Restrain yourselves.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Beyond these exhortations, they relied on a good political regime to enable human beings to fulfill the capacities that were part of their nature, to train them in virtue, and to restrain them from vice.

可以看出,希腊人依赖一个良好的政治体制,以发挥个人天性中的潜能,去培养他们的美德,去遏制他们的恶习

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He said Secretary Clinton's acceptance of Israel's offer to restrain - rather than freeze settlement growth has killed any hope of restarting peace talks anytime soon.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

Haitian police officers that remain on the streets have been overwhelmed by the lawlessness surrounding them, at times resorting to shooting in the air to try to restrain the populace.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called late Saturday for all sides to return to talks and praised what she said are Israel's unprecedented concessions, which she said include its offer to restrain settlement growth.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

Despite U.S.demands for Israel to stop or restrain construction of Jewish housing in disputed East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, during the Biden visit Israeli officials announced their approval of construction of 1,600 new Jewish housing units in East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11