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Example sentences for "restricts"

Lexicographically close words:
restricted; restricting; restriction; restrictions; restrictive; restroom; restructure; restructured; restructuring; rests
  1. For strategical estimates of lesser scope, the commander further restricts his study accordingly.

  2. However, if the forces available are not deemed adequate, the commander either modifies the operations, or restricts them, or subdivides them into parts for performance in succession by stages.

  3. Luther, on the other hand, again and again restricts most curiously the circle to whom his Evangel is to be preached; the wide outlook of the great preachers of the faith in the Church of olden days was not his.

  4. There is nothing in the law which restricts you to any class of investment?

  5. Custom restricts sexual activity to within a given clan, which is not, thanks to occasional adoptions and a very stable gene pool, genetically harmful to the race.

  6. This change also restricts their diet to blood, preferably fresh from a human donor.

  7. In (e) the participial phrase restricts the application of country to one particular country; but in (f) the phrase describes without limiting.

  8. It is as with a laden boat, which the river carries along more slowly or less slowly in proportion to the weight that it bears: thus the speed comes from the river, but the retardation which restricts this speed comes from the load.

  9. One gives a turn to the cylinder, but any roughness in its shape restricts the swiftness of its motion.

  10. But limitations or privations result from the original imperfection of creatures which restricts their receptivity.

  11. This is well defined in the Edict of Faith of 1696, which restricts the offence to enquiries as to the future--"O si sabeis .

  12. This was a matter of grace and not of right, for a subsequent regulation restricts the grant to a limited time because the trial may be prolonged and it may be advisable to discontinue the payments.

  13. It does not cover the whole history of the American Colonization Society but restricts itself to that period when it was largely a southern enterprise primarily interested in getting rid of the Negro.

  14. The person who wants a triangle of which two angles and the sum of the sides are given, grasps in his mind the determinateness of the form of this triangle and restricts his search for it to a certain group of triangles of the same form.

  15. An Adverb Clause is set off by the comma unless it closely follows and restricts the word it modifies+.

  16. The phrase I and O restricts words, that is, limits its application, and no comma is needed.

  17. It is noteworthy that in this treatise on making verses Gascoigne restricts himself to externals of form and style.

  18. On the positive side, Sokrates restricts himself to the function of questioning: he neither affirms nor denies any thing.

  19. A topographic feature or a physical or a biological agency that restricts or prevents invasions is a barrier.

  20. In a primary group, social control narrowly restricts the selection of patterns and behavior.

  21. The 15th verse restricts this lenient treatment to the inhabitants of the cities afar off.

  22. The 15th verse restricts their lenient treatment in saving the wives and little ones of those who fought them, to the inhabitants of the cities afar off.

  23. Phelps declares that this word in the sense of “introduce” is improper and restricts its meaning to “investiture in office.

  24. An example of this use may be found in Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet) and the Book of Common Prayer, but general modern usage restricts learn to the acquiring and teach to the imparting of knowledge.

  25. Thus he restricts himself to recommending the old short formulas of prayer.

  26. Wundt's Voelkerpsychologie is the result of a conviction that there are certain mental phenomena which may not be interpreted satisfactorily by any psychology which restricts itself to the standpoint of individual consciousness.

  27. Free from connection with specific ideas, it in no wise restricts the experiences which the hearer may enjoy.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "restricts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.