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The word "restraints" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to the act of restraining or restraining someone, or to the things that are used to restrain someone. Example sentence: The police officers used physical restraints to restrain the uncooperative suspect.
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restraints
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Plural of restraint
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She says she is alive to cultural concerns but the service is impacted by funding restraints.
The largest demonstration will be outside parliament where barristers and solicitors – many in wigs and gowns – will assemble and then march on the Ministry of Justice to hand in a modern copy of the Magna Carta, the 13th-century charter which first imposed legal restraints on executive power.
In a farewell email to the newsroom, Ives wrote that she wasn't given any "concrete reason" except "budget restraints and reviews of staff" and that she was proud of working on the great product that was SBS World News.
Restraints that should have existed in the interest of protection against environmental degradation have never been imposed.
According to Johnson, she had already gone through the same ordeal – taken from the Cook County jail to the police station, early, for a long time, and in restraints.
I think that instinctively people know this, and there is a broad acceptance therefore that the cuts are not only necessary but will open many doors that present restraints keep firmly closed.
He remained in those restraints for about 17 hours.
Ronald Reagan introduced the notorious "voluntary export restraints" on Japanese steel and cars.
Mr Bush's protectionism still pales in comparison with Mr Reagan's the man who slapped "voluntary export restraints" on cars and machine tools and introduced minimum price floors on semiconductors.
In the rich world road deaths and growth went hand-in-hand for decades: the first death-by-car was in 1896 and the peak came in the 1970s.However, since then, restraints on drivers and investment in safety have slashed road deaths in the rich world by more than half.
When small, economical and reliable Japanese cars started to eat into Detroit's market share, the American government imposed restraints on those imports.
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