The phrase "restrain freedom" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to limit or control someone's ability to act freely or exercise their rights. Example: The new laws were criticized for restraining freedom of speech and press.
Asked why he doesn't work for a major Chinese technology company, he sneers at the suggestion, saying that it would restrain his freedom.
This was what happened in the early church, which likewise was compelled to restrain the freedom of charisma in a system of rulers and laws.
Mr. Strauss' career, which could arguably have led him later to the chancellorship -- he lost a bid for the top office in 1980 -- was dogged from then on by intimations that he acted to restrain press freedom.
One is based both on the natural right (or natural power) of citizens to speak as they desire, as well as on the apparent fact that (as in the case of belief per se) it would be self-defeating for a government to try to restrain that freedom.
Several factors served to restrain Tirpitzs freedom of operation in Norway.
In any case, we are dealing with a candidate who has promised to greatly restrain press freedom if he ends up in office.
"We've been told that even though we are free men and women, that we need to restrain our freedom, that we need to be very worried and careful about the psyche of Muslims around the world, so that we don't irritate anyone," Bauer said.
These guidelines will also restrain the freedom of professionals to use other sources of knowledge in their clinical decision making, like knowing patients' preferences and clinical experiences [ 54].
As one leading opposition politician, Nejib Chebbi, warned last year: "Tunisians don't want to have an ideology restrain their freedoms".
In this, his backers from the Liberal party's hard right, and their cheerleaders in the media, could only see a crypto-communist plot to further restrain the freedoms of people like them.
