Restricting
[rɪ'strɪkt]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Restrict
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Examples
- The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The task is turned from the damming and restricting of wants to the creation of fine environments for them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This evil, however, is of too little importance to deserve the public attention, nor would it necessarily be prevented by restricting their numbers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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