Sentence examples for was overly restrictive from inspiring English sources

A federal district court in New York ruled in March that the contract was overly restrictive.

Ms. Collins, who once worked on a potato farm, said the proposal to limit potatoes was overly restrictive.

The National Potato Council, for example, said the proposal to offer fewer weekly servings of potatoes in favor of other vegetables and fruits was overly restrictive.

In an amicus brief, the ACLU argued that child pornography that violates the three prong obscenity test should be outlawed, but that the law in question was overly restrictive because it outlawed artistic displays and otherwise non-obscene material.

This restriction is overly restrictive, in that it would force those who both defend what are normally called special 'obligations' and reject the voluntarist thesis to refer instead to special 'duties.' In any case, nothing seems to ride on one's choice of terminology.

Players contend the proposal by owners is overly restrictive for rookies.

The sad death of Bob Jones obviously meant the byelection could not be planned, but the legislation is overly restrictive.

If true, Ms. McLaren argues, that proves her point: American copyright laws are overly restrictive and outdated.

A judiciary that leans heavily on the most conservative Islamic judges rather than on those trained in civil law could be overly restrictive in its judgments.

But the students' main beef is that, even within the subject of economics, the standard curriculum is overly restrictive, and excludes much that is valuable.

Trans rights campaigners have criticised the measures for being overly restrictive and placing too much of a focus on physical presentation of gender, rather than self-identification.