Sentence examples for modest restrictions from inspiring English sources

"If we accept some modest restrictions on our power availability, we can go off-grid very quickly".

Nationally, gun rights are popular, but so are modest restrictions on them, such as background checks to weed out criminals and crazy people, and waiting periods to allow angry people time to calm down.

The capital injections included modest restrictions on executive compensation, but the government remained a mostly silent partner, taking a seat on a company's board only for banks in serious distress.

Not long before Goldsmith left, the Supreme Court approved in June 2004, in the Hamdi case, the detention power itself but put some modest restrictions on the administration's ability to detain citizens without trial.

In any event, a Supreme Court decision that finds the district's ordinance unconstitutional would not necessarily invalidate other, more modest restrictions, like those that permit handgun ownership for those who pass a background check and obtain a license.

Yet he said nothing about Wall Street pay or union-organizing, and barely mentioned gun control — something that he championed last year, after the elementary-school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, by trying to push Congress to buck the gun lobby and pass modest restrictions.

The Senate did approve a modest restriction--a ban on the sale of the cheap, easily concealed pistols known as Saturday-night specials & 25 senators voted against even this small check on our most violent freedom.

Recent meta-analyses of relevant studies in obese women show modest restriction of GWG without robust evidence for improved clinical outcome [ 4, 5].

For two decades, Charleston has been "an island of modest gun restrictions in a very pro-gun rights state," ProPublica reported yesterday, with common-sense restrictions like a three-day waiting period to buy a handgun, a limit of one handgun purchase per month and a ban on guns on publicly owned property, such as parks and pools.

Just look at the absurd situation (my view) as Australia enacts modest carbon restrictions at home while exporting vast quantities of carbon-rich coal to the world's Asian manufacturing hub to be burned.

For 20 years, Charleston has been an island of modest gun restrictions in a very pro-gun rights state.