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Restrictive
"Restrictive" in a Sentence (14 examples)
This kind of restrictive legislation is bound to hobble the economy.
I find the concept of Globish restrictive and unreal.
Life became very restrictive.
Restrictive practices can be damaging for industries.
I have restrictive access to the concert.
Test examining is a very restrictive practice.
Oregon was the first state in the country to ban restrictive single-family zoning in July 2019.
The German virologists were left largely unhampered by a restrictive central regulatory body second-guessing them or imposing burdensome procedures.
Argentina will break the record for the longest, and also the most restrictive, confinement.
What do you feel are the negative or restrictive aspects of medicine from a professional standpoint?
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The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).
Some of them [teenagers] who will become lesbians clearly are being hit with the same kind of garbage which we got hit with in the fifties. There's been a real resurgence of that in terms of values and double standards and music. The clothes again — we're back to high heels and restrictive little femmy outfits.
[…] a couple of further differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: (1) in contrast with restrictives, the wh-phrase in non-restrictives cannot be ellipted; […]
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