restriction
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A restriction that would draw constitutional scrutiny if government imposed it directly shouldn’t necessarily dodge that scrutiny because it arrived wrapped inside a consent judgment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Courts are sometimes more forgiving of burdens on speech when the real focus of a law is conduct, and when any restriction on speech is minor and incidental.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
His decision, which blocks the Texas attorney general from enforcing the law, noted that the prohibition was “an unconstitutional restriction on speech.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Yale researchers have previously shown that people who followed moderate calorie restriction, cutting calorie intake by 14% for two years, developed stronger immune defenses without experiencing problems related to growth or reproduction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Relationships between young men and women of his unpropertied class were fraught with restriction and inhibition.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Yet Beijing’s restrictions prevent Yuntianhua and other Chinese producers from exporting phosphate fertilizer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Cardner's 14-year-old, Paige, believes the restrictions will lead to "more real-life scenarios" and less "fake content", which she says dominates social media.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Because of this, studies of interactions between people and wildlife often rely on indirect measures such as urban development, agriculture or, during the COVID-19 pandemic, whether an area was subject to lockdown restrictions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Some parents who say they lost their children because of social media say the restrictions could help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
I doubt it was much fun for all the other instrumentalists, either, who would not ordinarily have been bound by such restrictions.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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