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Example sentences for: restraints

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We have to be mindful of the prospect that the values of the Secret Constitution might play themselves out more effectively as the informal restraints of civil society rather than as binding rules of law.
In domestic affairs, no-one would seriously propose that the police and criminals come together and sign agreements under which they accept the same set of restraints on their freedom of action."
Participants questioned whether, given the current funding restraints, existing models for generating revenues for the SEC were workable.
We were easy prey for the safety crusaders who argued in the 1970s and '80s that drivers and their passengers could not be expected to buckle their seat belts and shoulder belts, and that the recalcitrant car companies should be required to install "passive restraints."
The things that once linked teen-agers to the value systems of the rest of society have gone, as have "the frameworks of reality which placed social restraints on the individual's freedom to think, say, do, or buy whatever is desired."