Sentence examples for restrictive definition from inspiring English sources

In addition, the rules adopt a more restrictive definition of independent.

My generation has such a narrow, restrictive definition of cool that we've forgotten to have fun.

They are simply a snapshot of the families that currently fall under a local authority's restrictive definition of homeless.

Since February, the Nepalese government has been under pressure from India to adopt a far more restrictive definition of manufacturing.

This arbitrarily restrictive definition seems designed to protect her novels from being relegated to a genre still shunned by hidebound readers, reviewers and prize-awarders.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees most of the aid programs, stumbled early by adopting an overly restrictive definition of who could qualify for mortgage and rental assistance.

As for Mr. Thomson's restrictive definition that "writing cannot exist without reading," this leaves screenwriters in the same company as Homer, Aristophanes and Shakespeare, to name but a few.

"China is largely blind to its own religious history, having adopted an overly restrictive definition of religion in the early 20th century and having attempted ever since to make reality fit the mold," Ownby writes.

However, if life is defined as an entity capable of reproduction, then a mule, which is clearly alive yet does not reproduce, would be excluded from the living under this restrictive definition.

With a third and less restrictive definition (less than 91 cm), the association is still present.

Roughly half of the area perceived as 'strong purist' wilderness (i.e., the most restrictive definition) overlapped with classified Wilderness lands.