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"a restrictive approach" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you are referring to an approach, style, or policy that limits an activity or behavior in some way. For example, "The company implemented a restrictive approach to customer service in order to reduce costs."
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Again, a restrictive approach was taken.
A restrictive approach to one of the most obscure periods of rock music would seem to limit a book's audience.
Such a restrictive approach to as-applied challenges would also mark a notable deviation from existing precedent.
Taking a restrictive approach to complex issues amounts to flicking one switch on a giant switchboard, not considering its impact on others.
Zoning of land-use and a restrictive approach to built development have gradually weakened, and land-use drivers have become more multifunctional.
In so deciding, Mr. Moreno-Ocampo should not adopt a restrictive approach that emphasizes the absence of a fully effective government, but rather an expansive approach that gives effect to the main purpose of the I.C.C.
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It outlines possible strategies of how to deal with HE in a European context, identifying a reasoned pro-enhancement approach, a reasoned restrictive approach and a case-by-case approach as viable options for the EU.
"From our perspective, this does seem to be more of a middle road — certainly a less restrictive approach that Donald Trump could take," she told VICE News.
Those pushing for a less restrictive approach say telemedicine is not an inferior method but a vehicle for extending quality health care to more places.
Analytical studies in GPRD that employed stroke occurrence as an outcome have generally adopted a more restrictive approach to definition.
This set off a shift in transfusion policy toward a more restrictive approach encompassing lower transfusion thresholds in the critically ill [ 35].
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a restrictive criterion
a repressive approach
a rigid approach
a restrictive stance
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a restrictive method
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a stringent approach
a restrained approach
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a limited approach
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a coercive approach
a binding approach
a reductionist approach
the strict approach
a strong approach
limit the approach
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