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Restrictive meaning
Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds. | limiting free and easy bodily movement.
Synonyms of Restrictive
Example sentences (20)
Unit symbols such as kg and Hz are never punctuated. citation Restrictive and non-restrictive modifiers In American English, restrictive and non-restrictive modifying phrases require different words and sentence structures.
California’s restrictive gun control laws—which include an “assault weapons” ban far more restrictive than the 1994 federal statute—did absolutely nothing to protect California residents from an act of horrific mass violence.
Scully stressed that the recreational marijuana bylaw must strike “a balance’’ between the most restrictive and the least restrictive.
British English, by contrast, generally does not require its writers to construct sentences in a manner that distinguishes between the restrictive and non-restrictive forms of modifiers.
The word that as a relative pronoun is normally found only in restrictive relative clauses (unlike which and who, which can be used in both restrictive and unrestrictive clauses).
This is a common fact about allomorphy: if the allomorphy conditions are ordered from most restrictive (in this case, after an alveolar stop) to least restrictive, then the first matching case usually "wins".
According to women's rights activist Moneseh Mubarez, the fact that the government is able to continue down its restrictive path is an indictment not just of the Taliban itself, but of the international community.
Advancements in gender equality, such as repealing restrictive laws and increasing female parliamentary representation, further highlight the country’s progress.
A leaked copy of a new and more restrictive Open Gaming License has put a large portion of the thriving ecosystem surrounding into a nervous standstill.
And so the least restrictive means necessary to get them to return to court is ideally how the system supposed to work.
And when that happens, that’s very restrictive, right things are going to break.
Are they more restrictive about this stuff than they used to be?
As BVI keeps loosing competetiveness, and salaries are not as attractive as they were before compared to other countries, this type of restrictive measures very hard for BVI companies to run their business.
Asia’s economic growth could outpace developed countries’ by 5% by end-2023 driven by China’s easing of COVID-19 curbs, strong domestic demand and interest rates staying in less-restrictive territory, said Morgan Stanley economists.
As Miller explained, the ban has created additional stress on parts of the state that already face barriers to abortion care because of the way they are surrounded by other states with limited access and restrictive laws.
BCB chief Campos Neto explained that as inflation falls, real rates rise, giving the BCB scope to lower rates and for policy to still be restrictive.
Both matter: Republicans, in addition to being the party of less-restrictive gun laws, are the party of Southern white honor culture; Democrats, in addition to being the party of the police-defunders, are the party of big cities and African-Americans.
But taking hikes off the table now would be unnecessarily restrictive.
By all admissions, there is still work to be done, with the space naturally being very restrictive – the number of people in the tunnels has to be carefully monitored so as not to overload them.
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