The phrase "a restraining effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe something that limits or controls behavior or actions.
Example: "The new regulations have a restraining effect on the company's ability to expand its operations."
Alternatives: "a limiting impact" or "a constraining influence".
The connection at each end provides a restraining effect which is beneficial to the compression resistance of the angle members.
It also had a restraining effect on the 14 institutions that were allowed to keep their official status, Bishop Beer said.
In 1982 Congressional testimony, Mr. Gates said the strategic arms treaties might have had a restraining effect on Soviet military spending.
Field, accepting the intervention in Libya in 2011 by the UK and others had led to calamitous consequences, pointed out that it was US influence in the recent past that had had a restraining effect on Haftar.
The connections between purlin and roof sheeting provide a restraining effect on purlin members by preventing such lateral and twisting movements, and thus have a beneficial effect on their load-carrying capacity.
I was simply using it to illustrate that while globalization and economic integration -- symbolized by the spread of McDonald's -- could not end geopolitics and war, they were clearly having a restraining effect on aggressive nations (in addition to classical military deterrence), because the costs of war for globalized nations were now so much greater.
When the Fed began to raise interest rates in 2004, any restraining effect that might have had was offset by Wall Street, which made credit easier at a faster rate than the Fed could make it tighter.
Most private schools require students to do community service, but it is too often perfunctory, without any restraining effect on children's second-generation craving for Betsey Johnson sundresses, candy-colored Nokias and iPods.
In general, H19 has a growth restraining effect and IGF2, a growth promoting effect.
It had a powerful restraining effect on both sides in such cases as the Cuban missile crisis and the Soviet threat to West Berlin.
They also illustrate the epiphyseal tubercle well, both in the anatomical position and at various stages of "epiphyseal slippage", and confirm that it has a significant restraining effect on any tendency of the epiphysis to alter its position relative to the metaphysis.
