Sentence examples for restrictive actions from inspiring English sources

Whereas Article XI permitted all contracting parties to take trade restrictive actions so long as there were policies in place that "restrict" the production or marketing of the domestic product, this waiver allowed the US to apply import restrictions without regard to such rules.

"We were talking about very restrictive actions," said Dr. Florence Houn, the F.D.A. official in charge of gastrointestinal medications, "and the company decided to take this voluntary decision".

The NSW police handbook tells officers to "apply the least restrictive actions possible upon a person suffering from a mental illness".

When that occurs, the government must sooner or later take restrictive actions that slow the economy down and increase unemployment; if speculation in the currency is already under way, it may be necessary to pursue the restrictive policy far into the next recession.

It is ironic that a temporary improvement in the employment situation may, if it leads to an accelerated increase in the price level, serve to create greater unemployment in the future, when restrictive actions become necessary for balance-of-payments reasons.

To attract more votes from the apparel-producing states, it could begin taking some trade restrictive actions toward imports of apparel from China.

The Town Council had considered taking a less restrictive action, but some residents in what would have been the nonrestricted pockets objected.

Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece have cited a lack of support from other countries for forcing them to take restrictive action on Syrian and Afghan refugees.

And they encouraged individual state bar associations to take more restrictive action "where local circumstances warrant" -- a clear victory for the efforts by lawyers in New York State to enact some of the toughest pay-to-play prohibitions in the nation.

But industry lobbyists disagree — and to the extent some bank lobbyists and executives support a federal financial consumer protection agency, they see it as a possible way to set lower federal standards that could pre-empt more restrictive action by the states.

And for months now a combination of declining press interest in the West and restrictive action against journalists has kept reporters, photographers and camera operators from reporting the familiar choreography of stonings, burning tires and gunfire that has sustained the uprising since it began in December 1987.