How To Use Restraint In A Sentence

He was still very young, especially by Drow standards, but his smile had given way to an expression of restraint, and his little arms and legs had grown long and thick.
The regulation might almost be judged in restraint of trade. Times, Sunday Times
Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.
Semi-structured interviews took place in a private room in the hospital ward, usually within 12 hours after each restraint event.

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There is skepticism about the impact and the unrestraint spending they're seeing out of this democratic Congress. CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2009
But action filmmaking knows no restraint and so the plotline galumphs on to its inevitable conclusion.
Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
But when restraints to which he had long been accustomed and to which he yielded passive obedience were removed, and he was left in a condition of license, all the abeyant passions of his undisciplined nature were brought into prominence and antagonism with an environment where reciprocal obligations have not always found their highest expression. The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
Pretty good, Miss Green, the advisor called out with her usual restraint, hands on the hips of her gray sweats, her expression thoughtful A compact woman with frizzy brown hair and a somewhat plain face, Miss Green had a husky voice that always sounded as if she had laryngitis. The Second Evil
The House of Lords applied the restraint of trade doctrine.
Oborne regrets the 'loss of self restraint' and his intention is to recreate it, or rather to again 'ostracise' and 'thrust beyond the outer margins of debate' those who dare to speak out about the impact of Islam on the British way of life. The British National Party
Children must use an approved child restraint or adult seat belt.
I think it would be unrealistic if I quickly tried to make them friends within the time restraints of this story.
The Prime Minister is calling for new restraints on trade unions.
In retrospect, it appears we required a developed and reflexive feminist, gay and transgendered global vision to see through the prejudice governing sexuality, gender, ethnicity and the legislative restraints that paternally impose on enculturation and self-identification. G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler
The guidance emphasises that restraint should be used as a last resort within a caring and disciplined home environment.
In many other healing temples for agitated people physical restraints are used, but they are not used here.
The UN appealed for both sides to exercise self-restraint.
Further restraint in near-term land sales could potentially cause severe undersupply in two to three years' time.
I’m talking, freed of all restraint a volubility which isn’t pleasant should you share the room with me. Pizza
Before his facile perils and ready laugh, life was no longer an affair of serious effort and restraint, but a toy, to be played with and turned topsy-turvy, carelessly to be lived and pleasured in, and carelessly to be flung aside. Chapter 2
I long to move - my whole body trembles with excitement - but the restraints on my legs and wrists keep me firmly in place.
Not merely daring and endurance but better still temper, self-restraint, fairness, honour, unenvying approbation of another's success and all that give and take of life which stands a man in good stead when he goes forth into the world. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
Their official role in the courts encompassed analogous responsibilities, restraint of criminals and conservation of justice.
One of the other symbols was a kara, a steel bangle that, among other things, represented restraint.
It was this temperance and self-restraint that led to Mendes being noticed in Hollywood.
Good luck favors emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence & emotional illiteracy, impulsivity and recklessness are likely to produce bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia
They challenged both physical and cultural territory and admitted implicit restraints on freedom as well as evident claims to " rights ". The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
Ill would it beseem my habit and my calling, to thrust myself into match-making and giving in marriage, but worse were it in me to see your lordships do needless wrong to the feelings which are proper to our nature, and which, being indulged honestly and under the restraints of religion, become a pledge of domestic quiet here, and future happiness in a better world. The Monastery
It is more akin to the toilet found on a modern jet airliner, with the addition of spring-loaded thigh restraints!
Yet the manager knows that his team must remain competitive despite the financial restraints. The Sun
Yet in tender restraint, they find a pure connection that will break your heart. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Brief Encounter, The Pitmen Painters
It said the BBC commentator had become a cult figure because of his ‘dry comments and lack of restraint’.
True, they ruled in favor of the Boy Scouts, and thus appeared to be acting with sensible restraint; but this sensible restraint is purely illusionary - and a simple example will show you what I mean by this.
Affecting someone's conscience by grace and restraint does not mean rolling over and playing dead, muttering meaningless politically correct platitudes, or remaining silent as many find it politic to do.
The development trend of computer architecture is toward distributed parallel processing, which overcomes the restraints of conventional sequential computers.
Life is in favor of those who are blessed with emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence, and positive behavior. Dr T.P.Chia
Further, a certain measure of restraint was a condition of sanity amidst the new atmosphere of material abundance.
She tugged desperately at her restraints as memory came flooding back, but the chains seemed to be unbreakable.
Time after time, when they could have oversold the joke, they showed restraint… which, again, is saying something considering how tough some of the gags are.
Restraints or a show of force with a crisis team and initial sedation with sodium amobarbital are often required. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
In his attempt to place checks and restraints on the power of the senators, he had the near total support of the public Assembly.
These states are more comfortable with a distant hegemon with an honorable history of restraint than a local hegemon with a persistent history of expansionism.
Today these restraints barely exist. The Sun
To us the declaration will be productive of much real enjoyment, and it will bring us together without restraint. COURTESANS
I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint.
Try combining different shapes and colors of tableware; assembled with restraint, an assortment can look beautiful and sophisticated.
Some slaves were treated well, but there were few restraints on their owners' powers, and physical punishment and sexual abuse were common.
Making a film is like choosing a set of restraints, and then trying to express yourself within those restraints.
Opposition politicians have called for restraints on public spending.
The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty. England's Antiphon
Guidance delayed by legal hitch Restraint guidance for children in care, long delayed by the government, has hit another obstacle.
They were allotted three meals a day, but there was a catch: their hands never came out of restraints.
The next few tracks exercise more restraint but fortunately don't compromise any of the fire of the opening track.
The design is an exercise in restraint, from the unadorned raised back to the discreet rope moulded rim, to the gentle curve of the sabre supports that end on paw feet.
We managed some restraint and resisted the deep-fried delights of the chimichanga - a tortilla filled with either beef, chicken or vegetables, served with guacamole and sour cream, of course.
More will become involved if given the opportunity to experiment free of regulatory restraints and bureaucratic interference.
Through such experiences and spectacles, the modern, detached, moderate rationality of the narrator, and often the hero, is linked to a restored sensorial excitement, as the novel connects the reader vicariously to a passional self momentarily free from habitual restraint (although in practice, still carefully insulated from any action that would seriously offend conventional proprieties). Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism
Vigroux and Evett are both accomplished players, and have enough experience to recognize that good instrumental music is an exercise in restraint.
Such objections as that the accused, at the time of the arraignment, is undergoing a sentence of a general court-martial, or that owing to the long delay in bringing him to trial he is unable to disprove the charge or to defend himself, or that his accuser was actuated by malice or is a person of bad character, or that he was released from restraint upon the charges are not proper subjects for motion prior to plea, however much they may constitute ground for a continuance or affect the questions of the truth or falsity of the charge or of the measure of punishment. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
Sometimes the care workers need to use physical restraint on the hospital patients.
Romans of the imperial age practiced torture against enemy combatants on an imposing scale of unrestraint. David Bromwich: Follow the Evidence
The criterion of energy transformation and conservation are used to derive the supplementary restraint condition of buckling deformation at the front of axial compression wave.
That's why we're trained in a technique called control and restraint. The Sun
The financial restraint is the most prominent financial characteristic in poverty and underdevelopment regions.
The design of new offices for a firm of lawyers in the southern Spanish city of Cadiz proclaims the virtues of elegant restraint, use of few materials, and manipulation of marvellous south light.
‘You can do better than that, babe,’ I purr with all the self-restraint in the world, still resisting the heavy artillery.
There were incredible conditions of prejudice, they faced all sorts of restraints, yet they were dancing, singing, acting comedians, tragedians - you name it.
It might have been code for something involving restraints. Times, Sunday Times
But I sense the callowness of pure Romanticism in such a rejection of restraint -- as coded into Odysseus's hood, into his arrival in disguise, as a beggar. Archive 2010-03-01
Their observation affords both entertainment and an affirmation of their superior restraint and breeding.
Given the enormous British tradition of restraint and moderation, that won't happen this time but a drastic response such as that will surely happen if such attacks continue.
Scriptwriters, directors and actors if they're any good know to leave enough of the knobbly bits of life in while reality shows don't seem to exercise the same restraint. Philippa Warr: Why Reality Television Isn't Real
I swear, I could skin him, protect myself from all decoys, prevent us from meeting, even in dreams, within the same 100 yards, but no worries, I don't need protection; you follow the law and stay gone, as maybe you feared last year's blizzards and that's what kept us inside ... all that unrestraint, all that To Be Continued -- now you're just another Where Are They Now? Ben Evans: The Poetry of Michael Tyrell
Practised with restraint, it proves useful, whereas in excess it leads to eccentricity and insociability. [ Michel de Montaigne
But he will need strength and determination to oversee a radical reform programme amid tight financial restraints. Times, Sunday Times
His rage was beyond restraint.
He said he wasn't attempting to prohibit debate on the report, but rather asked for restraint pending adjudication by the courts.
She sighed in disgust and gathered together any restraint that was left within her.
It might have been code for something involving restraints. Times, Sunday Times
Moving between past and present, writing with self restraint and stoicism, she reveals a history filled with pain.
In the end, moderation and self-discipline and restraint worked. Times, Sunday Times
He deals more in exhortations, because those intent on useless questions needed chiefly to be recalled to the study of a holy, moral life; for nothing so effectually allays men's wandering curiosity, as the being brought to recognize those duties in which they ought to exercise themselves" [Calvin]. speak -- without restraint: contrast Tit 1: 11, "mouths ... stopped." doctrine -- "instruction" or "teaching. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
On Friday the White House called for restraint, a peaceful transfer of power, and an end to what it called "senseless" violence in Yemen. US Government Pressed Over Yemen Uncertainty
Workers made some pretty big sacrifices and there was wage restraint on a very wide scale. Times, Sunday Times
The meeting noted that the Claimant frequently requires physical restraint and at times intra muscular medication.
In a miscellaneous company, Mrs. Pryor rarely opened her lips; or, if obliged to speak, she spoke under restraint, and consequently not well; in dialogue, she was a good converser: her language, always a little formal, was well chosen; her sentiments were just; her information was varied and correct. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
And though most Internet groups inside big companies operate with a measure of unrestraint this group operates with the precision of a marching corps.
It was this combination of toughness and restraint, of will, nerve and wisdom, so brilliantly controlled, so matchlessly calibrated, that dazzled the world. The Courtier
I snapped, fast losing any sense of restraint or reality.
Furthermore, they discovered that female hormones - estrogens such as estradiol - are to thank for this healthy restraint.
Sometimes the care workers need to use physical restraint on the hospital patients.
But Marianne abhorred all concealment where no real disgrace could attend unreserve; and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves illaudable, appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort, but a disgraceful subjection of reason to common – place and mistaken notions. Sense and Sensibility
Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
Of course a no-fly zone is a possibility, but I urge restraint and precise consideration of the issue, and especially intensive international agreement," Westerwelle said in an e- mailed statement yesterday. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
We attributed the Great Depression to monopolistic restraints.
Conservative moralists find in Freud a justification for a morality of restraint.
What the high court has done, however, is to at least bring the torturers within the orbit of the law, subject to some form of accountability and judicial restraint.
We believe that the most effective enforcement tool is self-policing and self-restraint.
Even then, while Hezbollah and Hamas launched their rockets from nurseries and infirmaries, Israel behaved with unparalleled restraint, doing everything in its power to forewarn civilians of coming offensives and then using state-of-the-art munitions with laser-like precision to reduce, as much as humanly possibly, collateral civilian casualties. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Tom Friedman Slanders Israel
Violation of expectation Violation of expectation can occur in both melodic and harmonic lines; however it is subject to certain restraints.
I then paid her the most extravagant compliments; her senseless chatting I described as unrestraint tempered by finesse, her pretentious exaggerations as a natural desire to please; was it her fault that she was poor? The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete
The Emperor agrees that British subjects shall be allowed to carry on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint, at these designated cities and towns.
Restraint may not be the most obvious word to associate with this once loud-mouthed rebel. Times, Sunday Times
For four decades he has quietly been a voice of reason and restraint in a critical world prone to overstatement.
They are told to stop the demonstrations and exercise restraint, but they have little training or access to nonlethal crowd-control equipment. Approximately 1,200 of them have been injured so far.
He is now free to wander and interact with less restraint, and, as such, his presence is represented with greater frequency.
You go inside, and inside is a chair with cuffs and restraints.
In the acute excitement stages, when delusions of grandeur, loquacity and hyperactivity prevail, the patients require physical restraint.
Even voluntary export restraints, illegal under the new rules, began to resurface.
Erik's mannerisms were very much like one who was raised under both the disciplines of a soldier, but also the restraints of a gentleman.
In the event of a severe impact from the rear, the seat backrest and head restraint accompany the movements of the seat occupant's body.
The little power she exerted wouldn't even cause the restraints to do more than to go taut.
There's usually some restraint, there's usually some sort of reverence for the death penalty, in a sense, because it is such an extreme sanction.
It allows for a participation that, by virtue of simultaneous commitment to another religion, cannot be unambivalently wholehearted, and will inevitably exhibit some sign of restraint, even fragmentariness.
I think police officers showed admirable restraint under the circumstances. Times, Sunday Times
The most likely explanation is that the militias' leadership is ordering this restraint, obeying the instructions of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.
Such restraint could mean the casual listener is unlikely to give this a second spin.
Their call on commercial banks to exercise restraint when extending credit may just be the first warning that they are preparing themselves for a marked decrease in demand from consumers in the States.
The Prime Minister is calling for new restraints on trade unions.
Its short lines are reminiscent of Plath, but it has a restraint that lightens the effect of the lineation. Vendler on Armitage: the willingness not to make a point…not to be witty
Management is under pressure to set an example on pay restraint.
They showed me that restraint was possible. Christianity Today
The cut in top salary is one of the most stark examples of pay restraint seen in the quangocracy. Times, Sunday Times
During the recession, the government opted for a policy of pay/wage restraint rather than a reduction in public investment.
The loud, the abusive, the vulgar have demolished the restraints and the manners which heretofore governed public discourse.
Good luck favors emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence & emotional illiteracy, impulsivity and recklessness are likely to produce bad luck. Dr T.P.Chia
Soon afterwards, Biddy, Joe, and I, had a cold dinner together; but we dined in the best parlor, not in the old kitchen, and Joe was so exceedingly particular what he did with his knife and fork and the saltcellar and what not, that there was great restraint upon us. Great Expectations
Her manner was boyish, hoydenish at times, and although convent-trained, she was inclined to balk at restraint in any form. The Financier
Its mawkish sentimentality and studied compositional restraint is typical of high Victorian genre painting shown at the Fair.
Such restraint ... Unlike your impulsive blundering leap.
The two restraint techniques that rely on the application of pain authorised in the 2010 MoJ manual are the rib distraction and the thumb distraction. Youth jails yet to introduce new restraint system six years after deaths
Palin recently refered to Obama's "death councils" or something like that, now she is calling for restraint? Palin urges restraint at town hall meetings
The film's grainy, bleak look is joined to suffocating dramatic situations in which the actors emote without restraint.
Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
The example of restraint which would have resulted from the sparing of the dictator's life, and possibly encouraged similar expressions from opposition forces sympathetic to Saddam, has been tossed aside in Bush and Maliki's pyretic rush forward to some imagined crushing victory that they would gamble even more of our soldiers 'lives to achieve. Three Thousand Wake-Up Calls In Iraq
I think it is really a behavioral thing involving self-restraint.
The hospitality industry has been urged to exercise restraint in effecting price increases to avoid discouraging tourists from coming to the country in preference to more affordable destinations.
Hunt supporters have always been advised to exercise restraint.
The first part is the general theory of safeguard clause and voluntary restraints.
The restraints were then removed and the system was allowed to equilibrate for another 3.9-6.6 ns, for total simulation times between 4.2 and 6.9 ns.
Holocaust deniers intentionally blur the distinction between the First Amendment right to speak freely, without government restraint, and the right to publicity, an audience, and scholarly consideration.
I say show NO mercy, no "couth" (?), no restraint on obscenity. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Even though I still think it's important that the title doesn't include "the" because it gets people thinking about the concept of what a watchmen is and may represent, I should have shown some restraint with the compulsive nitpicking, I admit. The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 23 (GUEST: Dan Trachtenberg) | /Film
It is good to begin betimes with the necessary restraints of children from that which is evil, before vicious habits are confirmed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Restraint in dress represented a reaction to the excesses of a corrupt monarchy and decadent regime.
But we have seen that vertical separation with restraints may well be more socially undesirable than vertical integration.
During the recession, the government opted for a policy of pay/wage restraint rather than a reduction in public investment.
The union said it was unfair to ask workers to adopt a policy of wage restraint.
All cars built since 1981 have points for the attachment of safety restraints.
Given the band's highly minimalist style, the tweakers are forced to use the subtlety and restraint usually missing from remixes, tastefully embellishing the songs without being overly distracting.
This migration, he added, could be stifled without regulatory restraint.
Then, unshakable in the belief that his rule was buttressed by a legitimacy not enjoyed by other authoritarian leaders journalists regularly come away from meeting him saying he is like no other regional leader, Bashar was initially unwilling to order the same level of force to be deployed against protestors as his father was, instead sending mixed messages of restraint to Syrian security forces whose cack-handed efforts only served to accelerate events. James Denselow: Assad: The Man Who Can Bring Down the Syrian Regime
If these men had such a king as this, who, while self-indulgent, should lay no severe restraint on them, they would more enthusiastically consecrate to him a temple and a flamen than the ancient Romans did to Romulus.
In premodern times, the limitations of military logistics acted as a restraint on the ability of states to interact with each other.
Yet withal, such was our restraint, that we talked of her still as one much misguided, as one who burthened us with anxiety, as a lamb astray, and Mrs. Milton having eaten, continued to show the finest feelings on the matter. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
In exercising its norm control jurisdiction the Court acts as a restraint on the possibilities of abuse inherent in the legislative process.
I find that statement particularly significant in that it has a pejorative connotation: bigness is apparently assumed to require restraint. The New Society: New Title, Same Old Debate
I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints on you.
In his view of history, other developing countries heeded the "Washington Consensus" to dismantle every possible restraint on markets—and "ended up in economic collapse and long-term stagnation. Emerging Questions on Growth Path
She tried in vain to break the restraints or shake off the helmet.
This paper described the restraint of interfering targets for the purpose of raising the reliability of the television tracking system.
All states have some form of child restraint law, but 24 do not require all children under 8 to be restrained in booster seats. Road safety laws slow to take hold
All the King's Men let its protagonist, a charismatic and power hungry politician who loses all restraint, grow into his detestability, and Willy Stark devolves into the mire of corruption gracelessly. DVD Times
In 1980, the Marriage Law made procreational restraint a legal obligation for couples. When a Billion Chinese Jump
They'd crammed my hands into the same kind of manacles - too small for my wrists - also they'd hog-tied me: linking my wrist and ankle restraints behind my back with rope, then running another loop of cord up to my neck.
Unlawful confinement involves a physical restraint, contrary to the wishes of the person restrained.
But with the right mix of supervision, freedom and restraint, it could be a raging success.
But before he could unsnap his restraints, Major Catsman's overstressed voice came over the Dreamland channel. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
It is a splendid novel composed with a poised restraint and admirably captures the contrast between Henry James's vibrant fiction and the elusive, undramatic quality of his own life.
Less restraint was shown in bygone days, when shark attacks sometimes inspired mass waves of indiscriminate killing.
Her spending without restraint ran him heavily in debt.
She explained with admirable restraint that it was annoying for her too because she didn't get paid for delays. Times, Sunday Times
the unlawful restraint of trade
But before he could unsnap his restraints, Major Catsman's overstressed voice came over the Dreamland channel. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
Tally had never been airsick before, but now she clutched the seat restraints, her knuckles white and eyes fixed on the solid ground below. Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
He showed admirable restraint in not allowing this to show. The Sun
If you refrain from suing someone, but then they go ahead and sue you, that's the end of your restraint and time to assert the counterclaim.
This passed in sight of the whole assembled court, who naturally regarded the action as a kind of betrothment; and the long suspense being apparently ended, the feelings of every party broke forth without restraint or disguise. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
The determination of dangerousness is based on evidence, establishing at least one of the following patterns of behaviour: unrestrained behaviour that is likely to cause danger; aggressive behaviour with indifference as to its consequences; or behaviour that is "of such a brutal nature" (s. 753. (1) (a) (iii)) that ordinary standards of restraint will not control it. When is a dangerous offender NOT a dangerous offender?
Theodore Dwight Weld no relation to Theodore Dwight, a leader of both the antislavery and school reform movements, aptly declared that inner restraints “are the web of civilized society, warp and woof.” A Renegade History of the United States
I described as unrestraint tempered by finesse, her pretentious exaggerations as a natural desire to please; was it her fault that she was poor? The French Immortals Series — Complete
If you have a positive character, you are likely to believe in work ethics, responsibility, sell- esteem, determination, perseverance, prudence, self- restraint, and emotional discipline. Dr T.P.Chia
A good father is a source of inspiration and self-restraint. A good mother is the root of kindness and humbleness. Dr T.P.Chia
In the widespread atmosphere of fear about further attacks, the normal sense of self-restraint was not, and did not have to be, exercised by the executive.
The first is "restraint, mildness, temperateness. 12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004
This level of restraint, even quietude, is marked throughout the installation - the design is distinguished by what it doesn't do, as much as what it does.
He called on the settlers to show restraint, but would not promise to extend the moratorium. Times, Sunday Times
It might have been code for something involving restraints. Times, Sunday Times
More accurate and logical profiling requires restraint: leave the usual labels and formulas in template until you have enough facts to thoroughly fill in the blanks.
Conservatives practice this self-restraint, which is one reason they have gotten enough moderate voters to win recent elections.
Sometimes police officers have to use physical restraint to control dangerous prisoners.
He was angry but managed, with great self-restraint, to reply calmly.
Lifting the backrest restores both seat base and head restraints, with no seat belt manoeuvring required.
A novel cover for a safety restraint device is disclosed.
A degreed landscape designer, Daphne used great restraint in creating her garden, which relies heavily on plant forms, textures and hues of green foliage.
As a general matter, there is an international consensus about the economic evils of price-fixing cartels as unjustifiable restraints of competition.
Because defense counsel had not been permitted to address the jury in trials, it had been understood that counsel for the prosecution would exercise restraint in their speeches.
The wild creator of the "_Robbers_," drunk with liberty, and audacious against all restraint, becomes the champion of "Holy Order," -- the denouncer of the French republic -- the extoller of an Ideal Life, which should entirely separate Genius the Restless from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843

How To Use Restraint In A Sentence

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