Sentence examples for restrictive as a from inspiring English sources

A short story is not as restrictive as a sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded.

Comics creators have learnt that once a shared universe has too many threads, it becomes as restrictive as a spider's web.

As a result, the law is deemed just as restrictive as a similar protest bill debated and later discarded under Morsi, whose own authoritarian instincts contributed to his downfall.

"The government has become more restrictive as a result of the change in the skin color and ethnicity of the immigrants who have come in recent years, including the large inflow from the West Indies," Representative Owens said.

Researchers at the Washington-based Urban Institute argue that mortgage lending has become unnecessarily restrictive as a result of Justice Department litigation.

He says a low-FODMAP diet would benefit these people more and would not be as restrictive as a gluten-free diet.

For a novelist, the use of such personages is restrictive as much as it is fruitful.

"Being blind is very restrictive as far as going anywhere.

Taken together, studies suggest that the abundances of key regulatory molecules are permissive for cell cycle re-entry from a quiescent state in young life stages, but restrictive as an organism ages, and this limits regenerative ability.

But now the purchase of a new one-design sailboat comes with a set of rules and conditions as restrictive as buying a cooperative in a high-rent district.

"We're not saying, do away with the traditional stuff," says West. "We're saying, broaden the national qualifications framework so it's not so restrictive as GCSEs and A-levels".