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restriction

A restriction is something that restricts or limits something else. The restrictions on parking in the city during snowstorms make it almost impossible to find parking anywhere. Because one student had bad food allergies, the school put a restriction on what kinds of food the other students were allowed to bring for lunch. A restriction is a rule or limit that tells you what you cannot do. On his first day at work, Kwame's new boss said: "Let me tell you about our restrictions. No wearing jeans. No taking breaks. No sitting down at work. Oh, and you are not allowed to take any days off for the next six months. Welcome."

restriction

a principle that limits the extent of something I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements (= limitation) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) the restriction of the infection to a focal area

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Simple sentences

They decided to abolish the old restriction.

Movie subtitles

As it has been openly mentioned here by my superior officer that restriction no longer applies, and I shall speak.
Basketful to unknown ship. violating gunfire restriction plan.
Water restriction tests, protein bond tests, eye tests, blood cultures. X-rays and more X-rays.
Diagnosis was hip fracture with destruction of the joint surfaces. which caused the pain and restriction of motion.
You're under restriction.
Lisa, that access restriction must be widened.
Zarb may lift that restriction.
The rules are quite specific though there is no territorial restriction but the fact is you are a foreigner therefore, I must obey the rules.
Well, it's a parole restriction.
I don't wanna get put on restriction again.
Yeah, right now we've got you for theft of government property, impersonating an officer. and violation of pass restriction.
I mean, entirely different movies, but we'll never see it. because, you know, we're kind of trapped in this one reality restriction type of thing.
He was on barracks restriction.
But you did order the restriction.
One, an authorization for an attachment to the coach by the government. and its restriction to official purposes only.
Water restriction tests, protein bond tests, eye tests, blood cultures.
I have to have a body in that mortuary, boy, before Lock shows up, or I get a month's restriction and what happens to the ball, then?
Lift the restriction on all the nurses.
Bixby, the restriction's been lifted.
I would've put them there had I known that there was a restriction.
It's the restriction.
The restriction has been revoked.
That's the only restriction.
Devon, don't those countries have currency restriction?
I'm sorry, Bonnie. the time restriction was clear.
I pledge myself. Without restriction.
Without restriction.
There is only one restriction.
It's my mind, after all. Where's the restriction of changing it?
There's no restriction, but why are you wasting your time?
All Atreides personnel, restriction to quarters now in effect.
He's out sticking up restriction notices.
The restriction field will make it very hard for you to walk.
I give you a restriction.
It's like a height restriction at an amusement park.
There may be a restriction on how long the Goa'ulds can keep theirs active.

News and current affairs

While eugenic practices led to a restriction of reproductive freedom and worse, reprogenetics can do the opposite.
Geographical restriction and specialized transmission mean that in most time periods, most pathogens occur in a small number of host species, often only one, but retain the ability to infect more.
International covenants, the Bush Administration conveyed, are maybe all right for lesser powers - but they are an unacceptable restriction on the freedom of action of the world's only superpower.
Inclusiveness should not be seen as a restriction on growth to make it morally palatable.
Restriction on firing employees, for example, may protect people who have jobs, but often at the expense of the unemployed, thus increasing social exclusion.
So, should extremist parties that seek to compete within the democratic framework be outlawed, or would such a restriction on freedom of speech and association itself undermine this framework?
No state may exercise its sovereignty without restriction; not every ethnic group has a right to its own national state.
As the world filled up with nation-states, and empty spaces filled up with people, restriction triumphed over free movement.
But, in another paper presented at our session, Paul Willen of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston argued that creating such a restriction is hardly the best way for a government to improve the functioning of financial markets.
Movies produced for the sexual gratification of consumers reveal cultural norms of restriction, transgression, and otherness.
Another restriction has been recently adopted in the United States, where the issue was explored by the National Biomedical Ethics Advisory Commission in extensive hearings and discussions with ethicists, religious leaders, scientists and physicians.
That restriction requires that stem cell lines must be obtained only from privately-funded or commercial sources that follow the protocols mandated by the guidelines.
Limitations on autonomy and privacy cannot be justified unless they meet the criteria for any restriction of a basic right, namely legitimate purpose, proportionality, necessity, and non-discrimination.
The new Anti-Terrorism Law virtually eliminated this restriction, making it possible for Japan to send its troops anywhere in the world at any time.
Asians were singled out for exclusion from 1882 onward, and, with the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, the influx of immigrants slowed for four decades.
To answer this question, consider the effects of calorie restriction, which has been found to increase life span in organisms ranging from yeast to mammals.
In yeast, where the process has been studied in molecular detail, the longevity triggered by calorie restriction is mediated by SIR2.
The restriction of access to foreign exchange made it impossible for private entrepreneurs to run independent export businesses.
Israel's government has denied that people are starving and has relaxed its import restriction regime.

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