Confine within limits

Usage examples of restrict.

This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations.

You are no longer on Earth, no longer bound by the customs of Earth that restrict women to brainless tasks -- such as fucking.

But any Culture, even the exoteric Classical, is restricted for its full expression, in whatever direction, to certain levels of the populations in its area.

Navigation Act of 1660 the importation and exportation of goods from British colonies were restricted to British ships, of which the master and three-fourths of the mariners were English.

He also explained that the staff employed to man the floors were all specifically trained by his people, that laboratory work had been restricted to what could be done in a hastily set up unit on one of the isolated floors and that everything used by the patients was being washed with sodium hypochlorite before being directly incinerated.

The locutory was situated next to the turnstile gate, and its use was regulated, restricted, and always required the presence of a chaperone.

I may come to that, Malik thought, wondering exactly how much he might restrict his own thoughts in order to keep what he had.

If it is only through self-awareness and inner adjustment that I can restrict the hammer in my hands to its proper role, I must multiply the effort a millionfold when dealing with a vastly more complex technology -- one expressing in a much more insistent manner its own urgencies.

Whether, as Niebuhr maintains, all the free gentiles of the three tribes were called patres or patricians or whether the term was restricted to the heads of houses, it is certain that the head of the house represented it in the senate, and the vote in the curies was by houses, not by individuals en masse.

Cyclops were restricted to sound without vision, Quist forced herself to maintain calm.

Thanksgiving, to both the restricted and the restrictors, seemed to be just the sort of excuse the general would be pleased to have available.

Court of the nation the power of revising the decisions of local tribunals, on questions which affect the nation, as to require that words which import this power should be restricted by a forced construction.

Although they are a common element to many Jurassic dinosaur assemblages, stegosaurs were geographically and temporally more restricted than their sauropod contemporaries.

Its use is generally restricted to scrofulous and tubercular affections.

But if not only the things enumerated are in some one genus, but also the propositions and terms in question must be each of them significative of some genus, then we shall assert that negative propositions and terms posit certain things within a restricted field and deny others.