Sentence examples for restrictive meaning from inspiring English sources

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That is, the phrase before de introduces time or situation dependent property, which intersects with the endurant and/or perdurant entity represented by the head noun to establish a more restrictive meaning.

We will employ the word 'diet' in this broad meaning, preferring it for the sake of simplicity to the more elegant, but less practical 'nutritional approach'nutritionalal therapy', however without the restrictive meaning 'diet as reduction of … '.

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However, supermoon came to denote the more-restrictive meaning of a full moon at perigee.

There are no recreational activities for inmates being held in restrictive housing, meaning they "are confined to their cell for approximately 72 consecutive hours every weekend without any out-of-cell opportunities," according to the report. .

In this case, the 16th president of the United States is a non-restrictive clause (meaning the sentence makes sense if it's removed) and is set off with commas on both sides.

Forsyth contended that all films depicting smoking should receive the restrictive R rating, meaning that anyone under 17 should be accompanied to cinemas by a parent or guardian.

These rules tend to grow more restrictive with density, meaning that high-value urban areas often enjoy very high housing prices and very low levels of new growth (quite contrary to economic expectations).

The US film censor has been accused of homophobia after a film about two older gay men which features no sex, nudity or violence was handed a restrictive "R" rating, meaning people under the age of 17 cannot view it without a parent or guardian.

Access to the labour market – from the service sector to the civil service – is more restrictive in Germany than in Britain, meaning that fewer Germans perceive immigrants as a direct threat to their job prospects.

So "In cyberspace" is restrictive: it is essential to the meaning of the sentence, it provides context for the rest of the sentence.

Despite the value of this type of media, existing technologies are restrictive of activists and grassroots organizations, meaning there is room for innovation to better accommodate the needs of these communities.

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