"restrict oneself" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea of limiting or restricting one's own behavior or choices. For example, "I decided to restrict myself to only a few hours of screen time each day."
Our electricity market reform is technology neutral, and given the huge amount of investment we need in low carbon electricity it would be unwise to restrict oneself to only one type of technology.
If one is prepared to restrict oneself to right-exact gluing functors, then this can be avoided, and the proofs in Sects.
In 1932, he asserts: "If mathematics is taken by itself, one should restrict oneself with Brouwer to the intuitively cognizable truths … nothing compels us to go farther".
Moreover, although it's possible to use inkjet printing for every step in the manufacturing process, he says, "I don't see any advantage … to restrict oneself to one printing or patterning technique".
Furthermore, there is a significant difference between Aristotle's overviews (which we know much better than those of Theophrastus, so for the sake of clarity one may restrict oneself to Aristotle) and the corresponding passages and sections in Aëtius and his family.
The definition of diet is "to restrict oneself to small amounts or special kinds of food in order to lose weight".
If one restricts oneself to macroscopic events, there will only be a posterior screener off.
Even if one restricts oneself to Bohr's writings, however, there is still a disagreement among Bohr scholars regarding precisely which of the several relations between classical and quantum mechanics that Bohr discovered should be designated as the correspondence principle.
Even if one restricts oneself to the criminal law, there are many methods short of imprisonment which can affect options, but which may not leave the convicted criminal short of an adequate range of valuable options.
If one focuses on counting calories; if one takes in the pain of others endlessly; if one constantly evaluates how this or that ingredient impacts the body; if one restricts oneself to the point of Puritan approval; if food has an overwhelming grip on one's mind no matter one's desired diet, then its offering of nourishment & enjoyment has been replaced by stagnation & fear.
Obviously, especially computing the MISs of higher cardinality becomes a highly combinatorial problem and one usually restricts oneself to the low cardinality MISs.
