Sentence examples for as restraints from inspiring English sources

Historically, two state ideologies — Confucianism and communism — acted as restraints on commercial dealings.

He singled out sagging business investment and uncertainty about possible war with Iraq as restraints on 2003 prospects.

But since these responsibilities usually had to be exercised as restraints, private banks resented them and complained of oppression.

The goal-area lines, wing lines, and centre line act as restraints on the movements of certain players during play.

During booms, macroprudential measures, such as restraints on lending, will tend to arouse anger, and if they avert a crisis, the public will never know.

Although the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 outlawed these devices as restraints on free trade, the barons either neutralised the legislation or got round it with another control-preserving device, the holding company.

By dime-novel standards, that counts as restraint.

But fantasy can also express itself in Los Angeles as restraint.

such as restraint and intubation are the primary cause of PTSD.

Jean-Michel Duriez, the in-house perfumer for Jean Patou, described Hermès to me as "restraint, delicacy, refinement".

Evernote refers to this in a blog post on the new design as "restraint".