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How to use the word restrict in a Sentence? Page #3

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Critical infrastructure laws like Texas' were created by oil and gas lobbyists and secretive groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council to restrict First Amendment rights and to try to bring to bear extraordinary consequences for legitimate protests.

Tom Wetterer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We worry the government will restrict us, prohibit things, start to say this is illicit enrichment.

Alex Sobrino

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Restricting magazine capacity is probably the single most effective thing we can do to restrict the lethality of mass shootings.

Ari Freilich

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This essentially serves as a call to the international community that they have to step up appropriate financial and technical support, those restrictions would actually restrict the flow of goods and health care workers into affected countries so they are counter-productive.

Alexandra Phelan

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Those restrictions would actually restrict the flow of goods and health care workers into affected countries so they are counter-productive.

Alexandra Phelan

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This is not a conspiracy to silence White House counselor Kellyanne Conway or restrict White House counselor Kellyanne Conway First Amendment rights, this is an effort to enforce federal law.

Elijah Cummings

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The courts are ceasing to protect human rights. They are disassociating from previously held positions, they are divided decisions that when there are doubts, the best option is to vote for freedoms and not restrict them. The presumption of innocence is violated.

Alejandro Balsells

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Employees do not have direct access to information that can identify the person or account as part of this workflow, while all information is treated with high confidentiality and we use multi-factor authentication to restrict access, service encryption, and audits of our control environment to protect it, customers can always delete their utterances at any time.

An Amazon spokesperson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Japanese women tend to self-restrict weight gain even lower than current recommendations, as they think that doing so will' ease delivery' and' help them retain a better body proportion after delivery,'.

Naho Morisaki

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If politicians want to restrict the First Amendment or eliminate the tools with which much of the world communicates in real time, they should understand they are also taking away the tools that bear witness to government brutality, war crimes, corporate lawlessness and incidents of racial bias.

Ron Wyden

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Decaf is not' no-caf' -- so if you are drinking three cups of decaf per day, then I would restrict that.

Vince Bufalino

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is the newest in a series of moves by the administration to substantially restrict legal immigration by making it more difficult, expensive and bureaucratic for the applicants while allowing the government to easily deny claims for people who should be coming here -- or who are here and stuck in a broken visa system -- and strengthening our country.

Todd Schulte

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The idea that we restrict freedom of speech, the right to assemble, the right to protest because somebody might be offended is a slippery slope.

Sadiq Khan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The idea that we restrict freedom of speech, the right to assemble, the right to protest because somebody might be offended is a slippery slope, we have a rich history in this country of having a sense of humor as well.

Sadiq Khan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

China might need to restrict the market access of American companies. But to purge American companies that are already operating in China might be a very bad idea. Those companies generate jobs and revenue for China. Most Apple products are made in China, to do something to harm American firms that are already operating in China would be very stupid.

Wang Jiangyu

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are delighted the court has rejected Shell's attempt to restrict the community's legal rights, the message is clear - Shell must clean up this appalling oil spill and the Bodo community will keep on with its legal case until they are confident that it will do so.

Dan Leader

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They look for a way to accommodate me — not a way to restrict me just because of liability.

Johnny Joey Jones

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

All the red flags were there. They followed all the gun laws in Illinois, until we have national laws to restrict this, it's not going to stop.

Kathleen Willis

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Some governments are unable to maintain security and meet the basic needs of their people, while others are simply unwilling, states that restrict freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly; that allow and commit violence against members of religious, ethnic, and other minority groups; or that undermine the fundamental dignity of persons are morally reprehensible and undermine our interests.

State John Sullivan

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

States that restrict freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly; that allow and commit violence against members of religious, ethnic, and other minority groups; or that undermine the fundamental dignity of persons are morally reprehensible and undermine our interests.

State John Sullivan

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I think that's certainly something that's on the table for us to discuss, and that we expect to come up over the next couple of weeks. i know there are currently laws in place in certain states that restrict that.

Press Secretary Sarah Sanders

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I know there are currently laws in place in certain states that restrict that.

Press Secretary Sarah Sanders

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This is a particularly extreme case because you have a professor trying to wipe away the chalk himself, far too often university officials try to play the role of speech police and try to restrict what can be said and where it can be said on campus.

Travis Barham

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Restrict high capacity magazines and clips and we say “over my dead body.”  Restrict the Body of Christ and we say little to nothing.

Everett Piper

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

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