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Example sentences for "restrictive"

Lexicographically close words:
restrict; restricted; restricting; restriction; restrictions; restricts; restroom; restructure; restructured; restructuring
  1. For just as a bacteria tends to grow unabated without the presence of fungus, so too does corporate power grow without the restrictive influence of government.

  2. Calhoun, a new member from South Carolina, openly repudiated the restrictive system of the President as a mode of resistance suited neither to the genius of the people nor to the geographical character of the country.

  3. Vessels which the embargo and the restrictive policy and the hazards of war had kept in port now put to sea again.

  4. The autonomous professorial councils began to admit Jewish students to the schools, without any restrictive percentage, and the wave of an agitated Jewish youth was drawn into the whirling sea of the Russian student body.

  5. In that year the Kirghiz sacked Turfan and it is interesting to note that the Chinese who had hitherto tolerated Manichæism as the religion of their allies, at once began to issue restrictive edicts against it.

  6. Still on the whole the Manchu dynasty showed less favour to Buddhism than any which preceded it and its restrictive edicts limiting the number of monks and prescribing conditions for ordination were followed by no periods of reaction.

  7. Hence very different pictures may be drawn according as we dwell on the favourable or restrictive edicts which were published from time to time.

  8. It is probable that he had an affectionate recollection of the Church which once sheltered him, but also a knowledge of its weaknesses and this knowledge moved him to publish restrictive edicts as to the numbers and qualifications of monks.

  9. This marks the beginning of the desire to curb Buddhism by restrictive legislation which the official class displayed so prominently and persistently in subsequent centuries.

  10. During the next century and a half a series of restrictive measures, sometimes amounting to persecution, were applied to it.

  11. In China the repeated restrictive edicts concerning monasteries should not be regarded as acts of persecution.

  12. The positive form, unless construed in the restrictive sense, would merely prescribe a non-moral doing of favours in the hope of receiving favours in return.

  13. Let us suppose this impossibility vanquished, and the fact ascertained that they agree only in a restrictive system as an antecedent, and industrial prosperity as a consequent.

  14. What degree of presumption does this raise that the restrictive system caused the prosperity?

  15. And it may be argued, that if these nations remain poorer than the restrictive nation, it can not be for want either of the first or of the second set of circumstances, but it must be for want of the protective system.

  16. State legislatures were emboldened to pass mischievous and restrictive laws, and much of my time began to be occupied in inducing, by various means, our courts to declare these unconstitutional.

  17. In the days that followed I became aware that my father's death had removed a restrictive element, that I was free now to take without criticism or opposition whatever course in life I might desire.

  18. There is no denying this signal fact, which is probably the most remarkable illustration of the restrictive power of money which has ever been afforded in the history of Asia.

  19. In connection with the question of inland residence the police regulation clause has been revised in a more restrictive sense.

  20. States and Territories in which there are No Restrictive Statutes.

  21. The judicial decisions which are discussed here are those that deal with the privilege secured by the restrictive laws.

  22. States and Territories in which there are Restrictive Statutes.

  23. How fatally restrictive the cult of the completed Sacred Book can be is obvious in the history of Byzantium.

  24. It was to some extent a similar restrictive pressure that specially developed the drama in France under the Third Empire.

  25. But the restrictive home-policy was fatal to successful empire-building where the conditions called for the most constant output of energy.

  26. By the opening of the thirteenth century their situation began to change with the adoption of restrictive measures, although it was not until the next period that these operated in all their harshness.

  27. This enmity was evidenced in more and more restrictive laws and in the open insults and violence of the Christian populace.

  28. All of these matters were the subject of criticism in both the Cortes and the Consejo Real, and the inevitable result was the employment of restrictive measures.

  29. At times the kings yielded to the complaints of the people and passed restrictive laws, but at other times, urged on by financial needs and political aims, they took the contrary course.

  30. All enjoyed the same lenient treatment as that accorded in Castile and Aragon,--with a beginning of restrictive measures at the end of the period.

  31. Gambling was also the subject of restrictive legislation which failed of its design.

  32. In fact, they must take something lower than the lowest: the union government will be more restrictive than the government of any of the nations which formed the union.

  33. Not proper, because the relative which is here intended to be taken in a restrictive sense.

  34. Not proper, because a needless comma here separates the restrictive relative which from its antecedent town.

  35. But, according to Exception 1st to Rule 2d, "When a relative immediately follows its antecedent, and is taken in a restrictive sense, the comma should not be introduced before it.

  36. He therefore takes it in a restrictive sense, as if this sentence were exactly equivalent to the former.

  37. In these citations, not only are who and which improperly used for as, but the commas before them are also improper, because the relatives are intended to be taken in a restrictive sense.

  38. This phraseology leaves not the limitation of the meaning to depend solely upon the absence of a pause after the antecedent; because the relative that is seldom, if ever, used by good writers in any other than a restrictive sense.

  39. What says Exception 1st to Rule 2d of Restrictive Relatives?

  40. The relative that, though usually reckoned equivalent to who or which, evidently differs from both, in being more generally, and perhaps more appropriately, taken in the restrictive sense.

  41. That that is the more definitive or restrictive word of the two.

  42. Erase the comma, and the words will describe the prism as a peculiar kind of solid; because whose will then be taken in the restrictive sense.

  43. Yet the size of the corps would undergo considerable change, and on balance it was the Marine Corps' tradition of an all-white service, not its restrictive size, that proved to be the most significant factor influencing racial policy.

  44. McAfee, had recommended that Negroes be accepted, arguing that their recruitment would help to temper the widespread criticism of the Navy's restrictive racial policy.

  45. If this practice appeared somehow more restrictive in the Marine Corps than it did in the other services, it was because of the corps' size and traditions.

  46. Had not every restrictive ordinance, every interpretation of the Edict of Amboise, every palpable infringement upon its spirit, if not upon its letter, been prefaced by a declaration of Charles's intention to maintain the edict inviolate?

  47. And they were ready to lay down their arms so soon as the court could bring itself to concede the restoration of the Edict of Amboise, without the restrictive ordinances and interpretations which had shorn it of most of its value.

  48. Because of the context, "the boy" needs no identification, no restrictive words to explain who is meant.

  49. We will now turn to a restrictive group of words that comes between two other groups closely connected in meaning.

  50. Let us consider the answers to this question quite fully, and make them a test of all restrictive and non-restrictive groups.

  51. In the consideration of the terms explanatory and restrictive, much confusion arises from the fact that a restrictive group may also be an explanatory group.

  52. Because of the extent and importance of restrictive and non-restrictive groups of words, another like illustrative sentence, with its variations, seems worth while: 15.

  53. Every restrictive word or group of words confines the meaning of the word or words so modified to a certain thing or certain things.

  54. Inasmuch as the constitution is the fundamental law of the State, it should be the effort of the women of Dakota to prevent the introduction of the restrictive word "male.

  55. I should be much disposed to abolish the tea licences as greatly restrictive of the consumption of a dutiable and useful commodity.

  56. The restrictive attitudes defining women's proper behavior in the water prior to the 1920s were one element of the mores defining women's participation in society.

  57. Although this chemise-type bathing costume must have been very comfortable when dry, its fullness was restrictive when wet.

  58. In New England the Puritan religious and social beliefs were as restrictive as the lack of leisure time.

  59. Kidwell Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States The evolution of the modern swim suit from an unflattering, restrictive bathing dress into an attractive, functional costume is traced from colonial times to the present.

  60. George William Curtis said: "Every change in the restrictive laws regarding women is an acknowledgment of the justice of the demand for equal suffrage.

  61. This is the only restrictive legislation we need to protect ourselves against foreign domination.

  62. The duty was in fact still a restrictive tax; and by those who were opposed to all "taxes on knowledge," of which the newspaper duty had been considered one, the question was never regarded as settled by this reduction.

  63. The official Whigs did not say much on the question of the restrictive character of the duty.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "restrictive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    choking; contrary; crosswise; defining; definitive; exceptional; excluding; exclusive; extenuating; extreme; inadmissible; inhibiting; inhibitive; insular; lenitive; limited; limiting; mitigating; modifying; narrow; narrowing; obstructive; palliative; parochial; prescriptive; preventive; private; prohibitive; qualifying; repressive; restrictive; select; selective; severe; snobbish; softening; stifling; strangling; suppressive; tight; troublesome