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Example sentences for "restriction"

Lexicographically close words:
restraints; restreined; restrict; restricted; restricting; restrictions; restrictive; restricts; restroom; restructure
  1. Mrs. Ferrier was far from wishing to be poor again, but for all that she had found wealth a sad restriction on her tastes and her liberty.

  2. This restriction may have unheedingly been called intolerant; but let us stay for a moment to examine its reason.

  3. There was no body of statutes till many years later, and during this time the only restriction on the arbitrary authority of the judges was the rules of the Mosaic law.

  4. Such a restriction may appear absurd; nevertheless there is no means of getting out of naturalism except by confining ourselves at first to the strongest (perhaps most arbitrary) means.

  5. The restriction of views, which habit has made instinct, leads to what is called strength of character.

  6. Not, however, that I would consider this restriction a hardship, excepting so far as it is a distinctive mark upon the Israelites in Poland.

  7. So from two directions there was a pressure toward some restriction of the negro vote which should be both legal and effective.

  8. Their grievance was the restriction of their industrial system, and its threatened destruction, and the failure of the Union to serve its proper ends of justice and fraternity.

  9. The Presidential election has now been won by a party whose avowed principle is the restriction of slavery, while its animating spirit is active hostility to slavery.

  10. Take away the restriction of public opinion in a well-ordered community, take from men the society of good women, and there will be a tendency to barbarism.

  11. There is no restriction here as to the object of the settlement: on the contrary, the making settlements is specified as distinct from the landing on the coast for the purposes of trade.

  12. The Act states that this restriction had provoked the natural adoption of like restrictions by foreign princes.

  13. Among the very first acts of this queen was one to abolish the restriction of English merchants to English ships in the transport of goods.

  14. Catherine of Aragon, and therefore the restriction was the more mortifying.

  15. The harsh restriction brings about its own undoing.

  16. The special note in passion is its restriction to one special mode of volition, in which the whole subjectivity of the individual is merged, be the value of that mode what it may.

  17. And there is little doubt that this restriction is in accordance with a main current of usage.

  18. Politicians may say that for any one nation to be the pioneer in the adoption of such a policy would have the effect of driving trade and manufactures into other countries where the restriction did not exist.

  19. No doubt this condition will be reached gradually, measures of restriction preceding measures of prohibition.

  20. Free trade in corn may increase the amount of profits more than a policy of Restriction may increase the amount of Rents (LXVII, cf.

  21. He published 'An Enquiry into the Effects produced on the National Currency and Rates of Exchange by the Bank Restriction Bill' in this very year 1810.

  22. To-morrow evening there is to be a long debate in the House of Lords on the Bank Restriction Bill[186], on which occasion Lord Grenville means to speak.

  23. Horner, I understand, will oppose the continuance of the restriction bill; he does not deny now the fall in the value of gold and silver since the termination of the war.

  24. All of these systems require a reduction of the total amount of food taken, a restriction of the quantity of fluid allowed, and a more or less strict avoidance of those food substances which are most readily turned into fat in the body.

  25. It is probable that a comprehensive rule of this kind would satisfactorily keep builder and site speculator in order, while it placed a minimum of restriction on the originality and fancy of architect and builder.

  26. The high price of building land is largely due to there being practically no restriction as to the cubic contents permissible on a certain area.

  27. The only restriction is that mining claims must be bona fide ones and not taken up for the purpose of acquiring valuable timber or a town or a water power site, or to monopolize the water supply of a stock range.

  28. I was involuntarily on the alert against all these general maxims which are considered universally applicable, without restriction or modification.

  29. The Germans favour restriction and moderation in all practical matters, but are opposed to the restriction of either thought or imagination.

  30. But the seeming severity of this restriction was almost wholly removed, among us, by the fact that he always had, in his master, an interested and zealous patron and guardian, in all collisions with other white men.

  31. The slave was not permitted to testify against a white man, and this was a restriction made proper by his low grade of truthfulness, his difference of race, and the fact that he was to so great a degree subject to the will of another.

  32. The answer is, that if the restriction is not unjust, it is because there exists among the citizens such danger of suffering for corn, that the sending it out of the country would be a breach of the natural law of love and equity.

  33. Some restriction was put on this mode of building by the imposition of a tax, which in Giovanni Villani’s time brought in 7,000 florins.

  34. At the time it does not seem to have been expected that the silver certificates would enter directly into the circulating medium; we may infer from the restriction to large denominations that no such expectation was entertained.

  35. He who maintains that the rise in prices during the last fifteen years is due to the greater gold supply must admit that a restriction of the monetary supply of gold will check the rise.

  36. Aside from the fact that national banks are not permitted to make loans on real estate security,[200] there is no restriction in the national banking act which would interfere with loans to farmers for agricultural purposes.

  37. A restriction of payments by the banks gives rise to a premium upon currency, to hoarding of cash, and to the use of various unlawful substitutes for money.

  38. It is of course a great advantage to the national banks, that in the employment of these deposits they are subject to much less restriction than is imposed upon savings banks in many of the states.

  39. This authority was limited at the time to certificates in denominations only of ten dollars and upward: a restriction which .

  40. This restriction is based upon a sound banking principle, learned after much bitter experience.

  41. While this restriction may in some particular emergency hamper the Reserve Banks in giving assistance to some threatened bank, it is upon the whole amply justifiable.

  42. The Bank Restriction Act was soon after passed, discontinuing cash payments till the conclusion of the war.

  43. Whether this restriction arose from a love of the tree, as we should like to think, we cannot say.

  44. The only restriction on suffrage was its being conditioned on church-membership.

  45. This restriction they felt sorely, and it made them more restive.

  46. Hawke was sent to sea to intercept a French squadron which had been cruising near Gibraltar, but a restriction was put on the limits within which he might cruise, and he failed to meet the French.

  47. Even with this restriction it is comprehensive enough, and will include more than a hundred species, which have been arrayed in genera varying in number from a dozen to above a score, according to the fancy of the systematizer.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "restriction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    allowance; arrest; ban; bar; barring; blockade; boundary; boycott; brake; cession; check; circumscription; closeness; closure; compass; concession; condition; confinement; constraint; constriction; continence; cramp; delay; demarcation; detention; discipline; embargo; exception; exemption; fixation; grant; hair; hairbreadth; hampering; handicap; hedge; hedging; holdup; impediment; inhibition; injunction; interference; interruption; let; limit; limitation; lockout; lockup; moderation; modification; narrowing; nearness; obstruction; occlusion; omission; opposition; pale; prescription; prohibition; proscription; provision; qualification; rejection; repression; repudiation; reservation; reserve; resistance; restraint; restriction; retardation; salvo; setback; shackle; specification; squeeze; stint; stranglehold; strictness; stricture; suppression; taboo; tightness; waiver