repress

restrain

bottle up

coerce

moderate

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The desire for peace must be underpinned by moderate and justified demands.

We know, for example, that the moderate consumption of wine can have beneficial effects on health.

This is how productive a moderate social policy is.

When the more moderate elements won the last elections, we thought our call had been heard.

What is important is that we are moderate and restrained when it comes to adopting the report.

check

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This is a check to be done alongside the mathematical check on the figures.

I shall check what has happened at once.

Perhaps you could get your services to check this.

We shall address this problem and check all the translations.

You can check it in the verbatim report of proceedings.

To control, restrain, check.

abate

allay

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Modernisation can do much to allay that.

Categorising beef as steers, bullocks or heifers will not do anything to allay the fears of the consumer.

We have to ask ourselves what we are trying to achieve and whose fears we are trying to allay.

attemper

check.

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This is a check to be done alongside the mathematical check on the figures.

I shall check what has happened at once.

Perhaps you could get your services to check this.

We shall address this problem and check all the translations.

You can check it in the verbatim report of proceedings.

constrain

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We need to constrain them, not develop them.

In my opinion, it is better to convince than to constrain.

curb

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We must find the means to curb the globalisation of counterfeiting and piracy.

In order to curb this development, goods transported by road ought to be transferred to the railways.

In addition, the document is packed with rights that do nothing to curb the powers of the institutions.

It has always been the task of democracy to curb the power of princes.

dampen

deaden

hold at bay

hold in check

master

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We have done away with so - called master - feeder structures.

We face a huge challenge if we want to master all that.

Those who master the language of software often do not understand the language of its content.

rein

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22064 They are given too much free rein at present.

China is extremely generous when it comes to giving free rein to economic processes.

restraint

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It advocates wage restraint, flexibility and job insecurity.

Nevertheless, the predominant rhetoric always centres on wage restraint.

You have called on the trade unions for wage restraint, as is your right.

In my opinion the convention managed to strike a sound balance between self - restraint and aspiration.

The use of child restraint systems must therefore be further harmonised and made more certain.

To control

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8487 This is peanuts compared to what was needed in the past to control outbreaks of infectious diseases.

The changes to the whole system have made it easier to control.

Technical measures to control television offerings cannot resolve these problems.

I fear that this policy first creates crises which it then endeavours to control.

This directive also seeks to control the discharge of waste into our water systems.