Sentence examples for the restrictive practice from inspiring English sources

When the Soviet Union denied visas to Jews who wanted to emigrate, Congress passed the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which punished the restrictive practice by withholding most-favored-nation trade status.

It's not just the strikes that been crippling the Royal Mail in recent years but the restrictive practices.

It is a direct assault on the restrictive practices in one of Britain's most self-protective trades.

So when groups appeared to have ancient privileges of one kind or another, she would go for them – such as the restrictive practices of the legal profession.

The final nail was put into the coffin in 1997 when the head of the Office of Fair Trading OFTT) had the agreement declared illegal at the restrictive practices court.

The Restrictive Practices Court decided that makers of over-the-counter remedies could no longer set minimum retail prices for their products.

Leaking warehouses, which had been stacked with the cargoes of the world, in an attempt to circumvent the restrictive practices of the dying docks, the power of the dockers' unions, were known to the workforce as Chobham Farm.

Even here, however, there was room for sedition: he often copied out the opening verse of the holy book, which announces -- contrary to the restrictive practices of the Taliban -- that God is the God of all men.

The restrictive practices court examined the NBA in 1962, but declared that it was certainly in the public interest because it allowed publishers to subsidise works of important – or potentially important – authors.

Nor was it possible, given the restrictive practices of copyright, for a publisher to do for English poetry what Manutius or the Elzevirs had done for the classics: to publish the whole canon in a series.

The government, with an election approaching, agrees, and has decided to have a pop at the fat cats in the professions.This week, the Office of Fair Trading OFTT) published the results of its nine-month inquiry into the restrictive practices of professionals.