The phrase "significant restraint" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a considerable limitation or control over actions, behaviors, or decisions.
Example: "The committee imposed significant restraint on the budget to ensure financial stability."
Alternatives: "substantial limitation" or "considerable control."
Qaeda militants operated in Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain and Italy without significant restraint.
In Soviet times overseas support for "dissidents" acted as a significant restraint on the authorities.
The Indian central bank's action Friday "shouldn't be a significant restraint on the economy," he said.
Indeed, a significant restraint on China's freedom to set standards is that it is not yet a wellspring of technological innovation.
"How can they do this at a time when all the people they represent are having to accept the consequences of significant restraint and often real terms reductions in their pay?
Mr. Obama himself tried to clarify things on Tuesday, explaining that "the point I was making is that the Supreme Court is the final say on our Constitution and our laws, and all of us have to respect it, but it's precisely because of that extraordinary power that the court has traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to our duly elected legislature, our Congress".
But Mr. Bernanke also described "significant restraints on the pace of the recovery".
The treatment for a small problem seems bound to make a larger problem grow by removing one of its most significant restraints.
Smith says the BBC Trust has placed significant restraints on the company following complaints from the commercial sector, barring it from making further acquisitions, ordering it to dispose of TV channels that aren't BBC branded and demanding it focus primarily on international, rather than domestic, expansion.
Noting that an inmate's refusal to participate does not affect eligibility for good-time credits or parole, Justice Kennedy said, "The compulsion inquiry must consider the significant restraints already inherent in prison life and the state's own vital interests in rehabilitation goals and procedures within the prison system".
Moreover, the decisions barring state-required prayers in public schools, limiting the availability of state libel laws to public officials and public figures, and confirming that a right of association is implicitly protected, are significant restraints upon state action that resulted from the extension of the specifics of the first amendment.
