Sentence examples for were a brake from inspiring English sources

Like other landlords, Mr. Rudin often railed against the city's rent regulations, saying low rents were a brake on new housing construction.

Dale Keller, chief executive of the Board of Airline Representatives in the UK, said: "The government has finally acknowledged what the industry and business knew all along - that the highest rates of aviation tax in the world were a brake on driving the UK's economic growth with emerging markets.

"He was a brake, not a brick wall," Blair concedes.

"He says he is a brake on the Tories.

He is a brake on progress; he has to die.

"We believe that political structures are a brake to the expression of democracy".

Those long and tortuous negotiations over what should be built where are a brake on progress.

These companies are legitimate targets because they are a brake on changes that the world needs.

Mattis could well turn out to be a brake on Trump's impulsive tendencies.

If anything, the deputy prime minister was a "brake on New Labour".

This has allowed Africans to leapfrog poor landline infrastructure, which had been a brake on progress.