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The phrase "impose restraint" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe the act of setting limits or restrictions on someone or something. Example: The government decided to impose restraint on public spending in order to reduce the budget deficit.
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But Islam is a religion that is readily open to extremist distortion, as all religions are to some extent, and it is ill-equipped to impose restraint on its wilder followers: 70% of the imams in France are self-proclaimed, laments Imam Moulay in Marseilles.
In 2010, in an attempt to impose restraint, the government named 172 civil servants earning more than the prime minister's £142,500 salary.
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But while the booming economy has brought in money that has benefited artists, it could also impose restraints.
Panicked, stressed parents are struggling to explain and impose restraints, just when teenagers are expecting more spending money, not less.
"And in this area many people feel that the provisions of 18C impose unreasonable restraints on free speech, or impose restraints on free speech over and above what it needed to prevent hate speech.
They worry whether Mexico's democratic institutions would be strong enough to impose restraints on his power should he become president.His supporters paint a different picture.
When we know we're being watched, we impose restraints on our behaviour – even clearly innocent activities – just as surely as if we were ordered to do so.
Q May a condominium board use a simple majority vote to impose restraints on the sale or leasing of individual units?
Most papers still give space to global warming deniers - mostly ideological right-wingers who presumably think life won't be worth living anyway if we have to impose restraints on capitalism - but scepticism has largely disappeared from news pages.
Also, whether the psychological premises are optimistic or pessimistic about the nature of man, one cannot ignore the impact upon human behaviour of social and political institutions that give man the opportunities to exercise his good or evil propensities and to impose restraints upon him.
Others impose restraints.
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