Contracts between landowners and sharecroppers were typically harsh and restrictive.
The Pope — to the disappointment of many liberals, no doubt — is not replacing an old set of harsh and restrictive rules with a new set of flexible and merciful rules.
Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret government documents to WikiLeaks, in unduly harsh and restrictive conditions over nearly nine months for "no legitimate nonpunitive reason," his lawyer argued on Tuesday at the conclusion of a pretrial hearing.
It opens the door to harsh and restrictive misinterpretation, even if the authors themselves had no such intention.
While this may seem a little harsh or restrictive, there's good reasoning behind it.
The New Labour rationale for this is that the Royal Mail is checking the candidates' election address does not fall foul of Britain's notorious libel laws – the harshest and most restrictive of any western country.
The studio, filmmakers, and supporters had argued that the R rating, assigned for harsh language, was too restrictive and would keep those who might benefit most - young people - from seeing the film.
The extent of the information to which we have access, and the means with which we communicate it, may be reaching the end of their progressive pendulum swing, and the next few years could bring them crashing backwards, as more restrictive security policies, harsher penalties, and newly granted powers make the process of finding and sharing that information more difficult and more risky.
But the law governing abortion in Northern Ireland is one of the most restrictive in Europe and carries the harshest criminal penalty of any European country – life imprisonment both for the woman who has an illegal abortion and for anyone who has assisted her.
But it linked its support to harsh financial medicine like high interest rates and a restrictive fiscal policy aimed at balancing budgets.
