Restricting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RESTRICTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• RESTRICT, to keep within boundaries
• deprive (someone or something) of freedom of movement or action
• limit someone to only doing or having (a particular thing) or staying in (a particular place)
• limit something to (a particular place, time, or group)
• withhold (information) from general disclosure
• put a limit on; keep under control
ADJECTIVE:
• restricting the scope or freedom of action
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to keep within certain boundaries

Words related to RESTRICTING

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How to use RESTRICTING in a sentence

• It is admitted that society is justified in restricting these elementary rights, because without such restrictions an ordered society could not exist.
• The abuse of the grants, as land became more valuable, induced a law, restricting the number of acres patented to any one person, at any one time, to a thousand.
• While the paper shortage lasted this might lead to very serious results in the way of restricting the space available for the ventilation of the views of those present.
• They accordingly made laws limiting and restricting the number of the gladiators to be employed.
• He had slaves, and was in the habit of restricting them on the Sabbath.
• Pinckney on a former debate, that whilst there remained one acre of swamp land in South Carolina he should raise his voice against restricting the importation of negroes.
• The Austrian Reichsrath had adopted laws introducing equality of civil rights for all the inhabitants of the empire, and restricting the influence of the Church.
• The other law was an act restricting the elective franchise of men of color, to those possessing a fixed amount of property, no such restriction existing in the case of white men.
• Which reminds me to observe that you are so restricting our vocabulary, as to be ominous of silence in a full sense, presently.
• The Republicans thus hewed to the line of their general policy of restricting the weight, dignity, and activity of the national government.
• Still other states, while closely restricting the suffrage, accepted the ownership of other things as well as land in fulfillment of the requirements.
• It was due to an edict restricting the liberties of the Moors, and depriving them of the exercise of most of their distinctive customs.
• But here appeared the wisdom of restricting the numbers of the professed to a small percentage of the whole Society.
• The United States Government has recently inaugurated a policy of restricting immigration from foreign countries.
• The rules of baseball are changed frequently and almost every change has been made with a view to restricting the batsman.
• It started in a mild, statistical way, restricting itself to the present fauna and flora and to the present configuration of land and water.
• There is urgent need for the enactment of laws restricting the catch of salmon, as the industry is now seriously threatened.
• In the month of May ministers proposed a bill requiring the registration of firearms, and restricting the importation of arms and ammunition.
• Every limiting and restricting movement or meeting of mere personal interest is human in nature.
• Spies, secretly and openly, kept watch around it, observing His every movement and restricting the freedom of His family.
• It would also be easily avoided, by restricting the number of the order or of the class, if it were to form a peculiar class of another order.
• She persisted in restricting the commerce of the United States by all the force she had upon the sea.
• No part of the constitution of 1840 gave greater offence to the French Canadian population than the clause restricting the use of the French language in the legislature.
• Ships, principle restricting merchants to domestic ships very old.
• He was creating Spanish Law, protecting the followers of learning, cherishing the universities, restricting privilege, breaking up time-honored abuses.
• By restricting their carrying accommodations it would also stay the current of emigration that it is our policy to encourage as well as to protect.
• I purposed adding to this list as I had done on my old passport, but subsequent American regulations, aimed at restricting travellers to one set of belligerents, prevented that.
• It was in this year, in which the law restricting the right of voting to free whites was passed, that Morton, who had not heard of its passage, came to the polls.
• Under this proviso laws restricting immigration from other parts of the Empire or affecting mercantile marine have, it may be mentioned, been sometimes reserved and vetoed.
• Morley replied, that he understood that China was contemplating the issue of regulations restricting the importation, cultivation, and consumption of opium.
• They believe that in restricting output they are performing a moral duty to their class.
• The great saving of life which has been effected during the last fifty years carries with it the necessity of restricting the births.

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