The phrase "a restraining effect on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the influence or impact that something has in limiting or controlling a particular action or behavior.
Example: "The new regulations are expected to have a restraining effect on excessive spending by the organization."
Alternatives: "a limiting impact on" or "a controlling influence on".
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.
But traffic growth in the past two years has been running at just over 1% a year, markedly less than economic growth, which suggests that high petrol and diesel prices are having a restraining effect on congestion.One point that is also often forgotten is that it is now cheaper to drive a car than it was a generation ago.
Similarly, a restraining effect of tax cuts on government spending plays a central role in the theories of strategic debt accumulation of Torsten Persson and Lars Svensson (1989), Guido Tabellini and Alberto Alesina (1990), and others.
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.
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.
It demonstrated that EDTA had an obvious restraining effect on metal ions.
