Sentence examples for restricted society from inspiring English sources

In addition, most participants (87%) said 'No' to the question: "Would you encourage non-smokers to smoke?" Furthermore, we also asked whether living in a smoking restricted society like Canada would encourage smokers to quit or cut down on their smoking.

Music students in China, while living in a restricted society, are eager to embrace music from the West and make it their own.

The meetings were heavily attended by security forces who restricted civil society's access.

Well, let's just say some pretty unsavoury regimes have blazed a trail for the UK's lawmakers in seeking to restrict civil society's voice.

But this latest amendment has particularly frightened activists and international journalists because it comes as the government considers implementing other legislation to restrict civil society.

They must persuade the government to delay the consultation on the fourth draft until January and make sure they do not adopt a law which threatens to severely restrict civil society's right to freedom of association and expression".

But the past several years have witnessed a surge in government efforts to restrict civil society organisations' ability to operate or access external funds, as described in the Guardian and by networks such as Civicus.

There seems to be no end to the draconian controls as the military seeks to restrain the news media, manipulate the courts, misuse security services and restrict civil society groups.

Egyptian officials say they are powerless to interfere with the judiciary, but activists say the generals are using a Mubarak-era law restricting civil society groups to silence critics.

The World Water Resources Comprehensive Assessment (1997.1) of the United Nations reported that water crisis would seriously restrict global society and economy development in the twenty-first century, and might lead to conflicts among countries (Simonovic et al. 1995; Loucks 2000; Giacomoni and Zechman 2011).

Targeting funding is becoming an increasingly widely used tactic to restrict civil society.