self-restraint

Converse of object

• exercise: People will no longer have to exercise self-restraint or act responsibly - the drug does it for you.
• have: I guess it shows that I *do* have some self-restraint if nothing else.
• learn: Thus doth Allah make clear His Signs to men: that they may learn self-restraint.
• show: In the interests of winning, his colleagues show remarkable self-restraint.
• practice: Liberals think you should practice self-restraint and conservatives don't mind how many offspring you have as long as you stay off welfare.

Adjective modifier

• judicial: All will depend upon the intensity of review; and the factors which presently point toward ` judicial self-restraint ' continue to remain valid.
• appropriate: Countries that fail to exercise appropriate self-restraint should be restrained by the world community.
• considerable: His frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and firmness.

Preposition: on

part: Without self-restraint on the part of the rich, no serious long-term solutions or alternatives are possible.

Noun used with modifier

medium: That a modern home secretary should seek such powers illustrates the danger to which a collapse of media self-restraint might lead.