The phrase 'restrict the spread' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it any time you want to talk about limiting or controlling the advance or growth of something. For example: "The government enacted strict measures to restrict the spread of the disease."
The dangerous irony was not lost on the Russian - the IAEA was an international organisation created to restrict the spread of nuclear technology.
The Spanish vote comes amid several national initiatives across Europe to restrict the spread of radical Islam and defend liberal values.
For a longtime resident of Beijing, the capital of a state that stresses a rigid vision of national identity and tries to restrict the spread of even its major regional languages, like Cantonese, a visit to this museum was electrifying.
The United States has resisted the South Korean effort, saying that this is a moment to restrict the spread of uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing – the two paths to building a bomb – rather than expand it.
Fuel-breaks function to restrict the spread of wildfire through a forest and thereby reduce the damage to values lost when fires escape.
These hangars are divided into three bays by thick steel doors that are designed to restrict the spread of fire.
The RAGE/collagen IV interaction might explain why RAGE expressing WT mice are able to restrict the spreading of fibrosis more effectively than RAGE KO mice.
The low longitudinal and transverse dispersion coefficients of a dual-domain system may restrict the spreading of the plume and elevate the plume's concentration level.
An Arabidopsis zinc-finger protein encoded by the LSD1 gene acts as a negative regulator of hypersensitive response to restrict the spreading of cell death [ 71].
This enhancer maintaining activity may be shared amongst KDM5 enzymes, as KDM5B also appears to restrict the spreading of H3K4me from enhancers, contributing to normal enhancer activity [ 131].
Mainland authorities have severely restricted the spread of information about the protests.
