Sentence examples for down restrictions from inspiring English sources

"Barriers were down; restrictions were down; behavior outside the norms," he said.

(The Supreme Court's decision yesterday striking down restrictions on invective-laden anti-gay protests at military funerals is a case in point).

In recent years, a succession of state legislatures have also struck down restrictions on carrying concealed weapons in all sorts of public places.

The court has emphasized, however, that these free-speech exceptions are narrow and that it would be vigilant about striking down restrictions that go beyond them.

In three decisions, Judge Harold Baer Jr. of Federal District Court struck down restrictions on the number of protesters allowed on the steps and in the plaza.

Federal courts have struck down restrictions on judicial candidates' speech in Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky and Alabama, in addition to Illinois, while upholding them in Pennsylvania.

MANHATTAN: BILLBOARD RESTRICTIONS -- A City Council committee yesterday approved watered-down restrictions on large billboards that had encountered resistance from the advertising industry.

So if the court strikes down the restrictions on outside spending, some legal experts say, the remaining restrictions on direct contributions to campaigns would mean much less because it would be easy to support a campaign through an outside group.

Kennedy, by contrast, wrote an angry dissent, suggesting that he had been duped in 1992 into supporting a malleable legal standard that O'Connor and the liberal justices were invoking to strike down abortion restrictions far later in pregnancy than he had anticipated -- restrictions supported by George W. Bush, Al Gore and two-thirds of the American people.

The World Trade Organization struck down United States restrictions on wheat gluten imports.

At the news conference, Mr. Zhao played down the restrictions.