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• v  place restrictions on
• v  place under restrictions; limit access to
• v  place limits on (extent or access)
• v  make more specific
• s  restricting the scope or freedom of action

• How meaningful or symbolic is the new legislation restricting NGOs? Illarionov: I see the reduction of the volume of political freedom, more restrictions clamped on political .
• The Ohio Supreme Court rejected the plantiffs' argument that Lawrence created a new fundamental privacy right that made laws restricting consensual, private sex among adults .
• To the nonabsolutist, it ought to matter a lot that restricting stem-cell research doesn't actually spare the lives of any embryos.

• restrict
• curtail
• curb
• cut back
• restrain
• trammel
• limit
• bound
• confine
• throttle
• qualify
• confining
• constraining
• constrictive
• limiting

• derestrict

News & Articles

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• California's largest court poised for cutbacks
  Los Angeles court officials will cut 539 jobs, likely resulting in long lines and reduced services. Presiding Superior Court Judge David Wesley made the announcement Thursday, further restricting a court ...
  June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Assembly passes 3 bills restricting abortion
  In a debate that trod on some of society's most charged issues, the Assembly on Thursday passed three bills restricting abortion along with three more on domestic violence.
  June 13, 2013 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Banning Psychedelic Drugs Hurts Research, Scientists Say
  Restricting the use of psychoactive drugs in research represents the most serious case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Copernicus and Galileo, some scientists say.
  June 12, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News