6 Metaphors for restriction

Duties may be laid upon imports but not upon exports; this wise restriction was a special concession to South.

The next restriction or limitation with which this negotiation is to be clogged is an admission that the Restigouche and St. John are not Atlantic rivers, because one flows into the Bay de Chaleurs and the other into the Bay of Fundy; yet neither falls into the river St. Lawrence.

My wise restrictions still: 'Tis great, to live Poor, among riches; when thy wealth is spent, Want is not merit, but necessity.

A restriction in what is called "freedom of competition" is the only direct remedy which can be applied by women themselves.

He endeavored to obviate the objection of gentlemen, that the restriction on Congress was a proof that they would have power not given them, by remarking, that they would only have had a general superintendency of trade, if the restriction had not been inserted.

It could not therefore have been a power by implication, as the restriction was an exception from a delegated power.

6 Metaphors for  restriction