Sentence examples for restrictive from inspiring English sources

The legislation for powered vehicles on roads was very restrictive but often ineffective.

What kind of a joke is that?" It's the kind of "joke", low-level harassment, intrusion and pressure that leaders of Russian NGOs have been subjected to since Russia introduced a restrictive "foreign agents" law in 2012.

Warnings last week about Britain's restrictive immigration rules from Nobel prize-winner John O'Keefe will have resonated with many businesses that have struggled to bring in new staff from overseas.

"Speaking as minister for health, and also as a medical doctor, and knowing now all that I do now, it is my considered view that the eighth amendment is too restrictive," Varadkar told the Dáil.

Leung Kwok-hung, chair of the left-leaning political party League of Social Democrats, marched as he reiterated the protesters' main demands: that Hong Kong's chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, resign, and that the government scrap Beijing's highly restrictive electoral framework for the city's next chief executive election in 2017.

Tight fiscal policy along with the still unnecessarily restrictive monetary policy being run by the European Central Bank has pushed Europe back into recession – as many of us warned would happen.

The report criticised some state quarantine policies as "ineffective and overly restrictive".

Seen off by the courts and by parliament on extending detention without trial, the government turned to control orders of a hugely restrictive nature.

The doctor deplores the current restrictive legal framework in Morocco.

So when groups appeared to have ancient privileges of one kind or another, she would go for them – such as the restrictive practices of the legal profession.

In response they plan to raise the bar on strike ballots, which are already held in highly restrictive circumstances.