The phrase "a form of restraint" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or practices that limit or control behavior or actions.
Example: "The new policy is seen as a form of restraint on individual freedoms, sparking a debate about personal rights."
Alternatives: "a type of limitation" or "a means of control."
Pepper spray is banned, and youths are taught to de-escalate fights or apply grappling holds, a form of restraint.
Various bodies oppose the UK's idiosyncratic reliance on pain as a form of restraint, including the UN torture committee, the European torture committee, the UK's four children's commissioners, the prisons inspectorate, and the Association of Directors of Children's Services.
"The Lib Dems have already championed their commitment in 2010 by ending indefinite detention and are now willing to introduce a time limit alongside resettling 1,500 Syrian refugees and ending the use of pain as a form of restraint".
During the resultant struggle, one officer has Garner in a chokehold, a form of restraint prohibited by the NYPD, despite the 43-year-old repeatedly saying "I can't breathe".
Equation (5.a) indicates that stress induced by shrinkage is partially released by creep and a form of restraint.
Some nurses even considered home modifications, like moving the bed downstairs, to be a form of restraint.
A new method of attaching motion-sensitive tags securely to large sharks is presented which allows free-swimming animals to be equipped without any form of restraint.
Too often, they are used as a form of chemical restraint, as a substitute for good care and adequate staffing.
"The need to make room for democratic decision-making argues for judicial modesty in constitutional decision-making, a form of judicial restraint," he writes.
In some cases it started off as a form of wage restraint in the dark days of the 1990s: companies cut basic wages and employees hoped that performance-related pay might make up the difference, which it did not always do.The idea met with stiff resistance.
