Sentence examples for restraints like from inspiring English sources

After she complained the metal handcuffs were replaced with velcro restraints, "like in a mental ward", but the leg shackle remained.

Unfortunately, another barbaric practice is common in our nation's juvenile correctional facilities -- the use of hardware and fixed restraints like "restraint chairs" to punish children.

Black students with disabilities constituted 21 percent of the total, but 44 percent of those with disabilities subject to mechanical restraints, like being strapped down.

While cautioning against reading too much into one statement, Mr. Ballew said the message from the Fed appeared to be that the economic recovery had momentum but also faced restraints, like excess capacity and a soft labor market.

Mr. Downes attributed the situation in part to a "knot of fiscal restraints" like a 1992 constitutional amendment, the Tax Payer's Bill of Rights, that was intended to restrain state spending.

An overwhelming majority of Americans, including me and my hunting companions, believe in the right to own weapons, but surveys show that they also support modest restraints like background checks, mandatory registration and brief waiting periods before purchase.

Supporters of judicial restraint would like to leave the question to state legislatures (most of which would surely vote to maintain the status quo).

The pendulum, he said, oscillates between periods of restraint like Prohibition and periods rife with Jazz Age-like hedonism.

Restraint like this will be especially important against a Philadelphia team that is among the National Hockey League's roughest.

Many have focused on budget restraint, like with the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law in the 1980s, which its sponsors pushed during a debt-limit fight.

MUCH of the clothing here shows a similar balance of hipness and traditional restraint, like a beautiful wool Fitzgerald twill topcoat.