Sentence examples for attempts to restrict access from inspiring English sources

On Thursday, gun rights advocates here rejected any attempts to restrict access to high-powered guns.

A primary goal of a presidential campaign is to incrementally increase margins of support among volatile and persuadable demographic groups like single women angered by attempts to restrict access to contraception or voters with long commutes worried about gas prices.

Speaking to journalists after his keynote speech at Google's Big Tent conference in London, Schmidt said the online search giant would challenge attempts to restrict access to the Pirate Bay and other so-called "cyberlocker" sites that encourage illegal downloading – part of government plans to fight online piracy through controversial measures included in the Digital Economy Act.

With media censorship a fact of life in Iran, digital services and apps such as Telegram have offered citizens an alternative outlet for accessing information — including, when service blocks are imposed, the capacity for more tech savvy users to use other digital tools (such as proxy servers) to circumvent attempts to restrict access to uncensored content.

As San Francisco District Attorney she has campaigned against the repeated attempts to restrict access to abortion here in California.

WASHINGTON -- At a White House event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, President Barack Obama criticized Republican-backed attempts to restrict access to the ballot. .

There was widespread international suspicion that the rebels may have been attempting to restrict access to the site in order to destroy important evidence.

He added: "Co-op's knee-jerk attempt to restrict access to a product that consumers have enjoyed for nearly a decade is wrong".

This is just the most recent example of a mean-spirited and all-too-partisan attempt to restrict access to the rolls and to the polls.

It recently announced it will stop organisations that refer people for abortions from receiving government funding and has attempted to restrict access to contraception.

Local news broadcasts are usually the primary money-makers for individual stations, and any attempt to restrict access to them -- through the V-chip, for example, the device that allows parents to filter out other violent programming -- would be fiercely resisted by station owners.