Sentence examples for deemed restrictive from inspiring English sources

The band's controversial photography contracts have been deemed restrictive and disempowering for photographers, leading one paper to use fan-shot pictures and another to send a cartoonist to sketch the band instead.

It all sounded very much like the Michael I knew at XY, a young man who was fascinated by queer theory — namely, the idea that sexual and gender identities are culturally constructed rather than biologically fixed — and who dreamed of a world without labels like "straight" and "gay," which he deemed restrictive and designed to "segment and persecute," as he argued in a 1998 issue of XY.

The longer a restriction is, the more likely it is that it would be deemed overly restrictive.

In Chicago, the rules for owning a handgun — rewritten after the outright ban was deemed too restrictive in 2010 — sound arduous.

The exclusion list from BioLip [22] was also considered, but deemed too restrictive.

The speech addressed the issue of monetary policy and the debate over backing the dollar with gold and silver rather than just gold, which was deemed overly restrictive and unfair to working people and farmers.

This viewpoint fits with the preference on the part of medical staff for isolation, as reported by Bergk and Steiner [ 19], because it was deemed less restrictive of human rights.

As a result, the law is deemed just as restrictive as a similar protest bill debated and later discarded under Morsi, whose own authoritarian instincts contributed to his downfall.

At the same time, however, the rules are deemed to be restrictive enough to prevent criminals from easily obtaining firearms, while allowing upstanding citizens to own one for personal protection.

To somehow denigrate "The Sopranos" because it can't be deemed classic under Terry Teachout's restrictive definition of the term seems to miss the larger point: in the shared opinion of legions of viewers, "The Sopranos" certainly seems to be a classic, albeit one that happens to appear on television.

In these communities, if a developer proposes a project with 20percentt of its units affordable and is turned down because of restrictive zoning, that denial is deemed illegal unless the municipality can show a clear public purpose.