"restrained supply" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation in which the amount of something available is limited or regulated. For example, "The government's decisions to lower tariffs led to a restrained supply of imported goods."
Strict planning laws and green belts restrain supply.
United States oil prices surrendered recent gains yesterday even though Venezuela's oil minister said the OPEC cartel was putting finishing touches to a deal with rival exporters that would restrain supply.
Although oil prices dropped from near 10-year highs late last year, an American-British attack on Iraqi air defense installations on Friday and commitments by key oil producers to restrain supply have upset forecasts of more stability in the oil market.
The prospect of a larger surplus than expected adds to the challenge of OPEC and non-members such as Russia, who are making a renewed attempt to restrain supplies.
As president of the bank, Biddle sponsored policies that restrained the supply of credit to the country's banks; stabilized the investment, money, and discount markets; regulated the money supply; and safeguarded government deposits.
After all, any use of either monetary or prudential policies on their own under those circumstances might have led to contradictory and self-defeating impacts on those two objectives: simply hiking interest rates would attract more capital inflows; and restraining credit supply with no policy interest rate increase would lead to channeling demand for credit to other intermediation vehicles.
It was based on the theory that prices will be restrained when the supply of money is controlled.
Reid was restrained with belts supplied by passengers.
In each case what drove the bubble, or restrained it, was not supply, but reckless lending.
Recently, various nanostructured phosphorus based anodes, which efficiently restrained the pulverization and supplied faster reaction kinetics, have been developed to solve these issues.
