Sentence examples for preferred to restrict from inspiring English sources

By contrast, Crosby preferred to restrict Johnson's appearances and to once again concentrate on the Conservative core in the outer boroughs.

The Figaro's owner, Tom Zielger, told Ross that he preferred to restrict his customers to "the real, true, old-fashioned, wonderful bohemians," but he also presciently predicted, "the market for coffeehouses is unlimited".

We maintained the above distinction; however since there are two distinct peaks, around age 4 for adenotonsillectomy and adenoidectomy and among adolescents-young adults for tonsillectomy, we preferred to restrict the age range of most analysis and deal with a homogenous population in terms of type of surgery and demographics (e.g. relevance of the immigrant population).

The writer rarely appears in public, preferring to restrict any direct contact with his readers to occasional message exchanges.

Mr. Kass would prefer to restrict all human cloning research (though as recent news suggests, that would not be easy).

The panel rejects the development of Dutch-style cannabis cafes in Britain, preferring to restrict shops sales so that there are not "destination" retailers.

In Nixon's case, the Judiciary Committee considered but did not approve an article impeaching the president for tax fraud, preferring to restrict its charges to the cover-up associated with the Watergate break-in.

I'm not necessarily averse to using "often described as" myself, but prefer to restrict my usages generally to, say, "often described as the baddest man in the whole damn town" or "often described as the increasingly desperate fibber Harriet Harman" or some such.

Although some botanists prefer to restrict the term cycadophyte to the members of the division Cycadophyta, three groups of primitive seed plants are discussed here, of which the seed ferns (division Pteridospermophyta) and cycadeoids (division Cycadeoidophyta) are represented only by extinct forms.

Originators prefer to restrict the information they can convey to experts because it encourages the participation of non experts.

But since actions, such as volitions, can themselves be perceived, Descartes prefers to restrict the term to those perceptions caused by the body.