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.
It ranked Saudi Arabia as the most restrictive country and the Middle East and North Africa as the most restrictive regions.
Africa and Latin America have the most restrictive abortion laws in the world.
But we think therapeutically the best thing you can do is go from most restrictive to least restrictive.
Emergency psychiatric care is generally considered the most restrictive.
Only about a third are the most restrictive H.M.O.'s.
Lawsuits may yet topple the most restrictive new laws.
It imposed laws boastfully described by Tony Blair as "the most restrictive on trade unions in the western world"; David Cameron now proposes to make them more restrictive still.
Brendan McCormick, a spokesman for Philip Morris USA, called the measure the most restrictive he had ever heard of.
But in fact, Boston's will be the most restrictive policy in the US.
