"restricts its use" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to communicate that something has limited application or usage. For example, "This medication restricts its use to adults only."
But we're not using it in a majority of cases because a state law restricts its use.
"Nothing in our methodology restricts its use to chemically synthesized DNA," Venter noted in the report of his work, which was published in Science.
Grace has maintained that its products contain only trace amounts of asbestos -- far below the 1percentt level at which the E.P.A. restricts its use.
I would like to warn readers thinking of signing up to a BT mobile sim card that the firm sometimes restricts its use abroad for the first six months.
This restricts its use on Windows-based guest VMs.
and needs a full-time interpreter, which restricts its use to a small portion of TV programming.
However, chitosan shows its antibacterial activity only in acidic environment and this restricts its uses.
When the city put the building, an abandoned library for the blind, up for auction 20 years ago, it restricted its use to a nonprofit community facility.
At the time, the AP said it would restrict its use of the term illegal immigrant without dropping it entirely, while the New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan said she continued to view it as the appropriate word choice.
Fearing the practice could infect diners with pathogens like botulism, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has restricted its use while it develops regulations.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Trovan in 1997 but restricted its use two years later, after it was linked to liver failure.
