151 collocations for restricting

Adoption of the Publilian laws in Rome, which further restricted the power of the patricians.

The Federalist leaders saw in the ascendency of the people the triumphs of demagogy, the ignoring of experience in government, the reign of passions, unenlightened measures leading to financial and political ruin, and would therefore restrict the privilege, or, as some would say, the right, of suffrage.

Horace further warns his pupils to restrict the number of acts to the conventional five, and the number of characters to the conventional three.

It makes little difference whether this effect is secured directly by wage demands, or indirectly by restricting the right of the entry to the trade.

Without negroes this State would degenerate into one of the most contemptible in the Union: and cited an expression that fell from Gen. 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.

Things had already reached such a pass, that the only effective barrier against family rule and its consequences had to be found in a government strictly oligarchical; and this was the reason why even the party otherwise opposed to the oligarchy agreed to restrict the freedom of election.

If we still adhere to our localised defence, we shall have two distinct kinds of force-one provided merely for local, and consequently restricted, action; the other able to act near the shore or far out at sea as circumstances may demand.

It would banish deceit and suspicion from the world, and restrict the use of signs to their legitimate offices.

But again, Maryland and Virginia, in their acts of cession, declare them to be "in pursuance of" that clause of the constitution which gives to Congress "exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over" the ten miles squarethus, instead of restricting that clause, both States gave an express and decided confirmation of it.

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.

NAVIGATION ACTS passed restricting colonial trade. 1663.

By these three means, the "minimum wage" qualification for membership, the limitation of the number of apprentices, and the "out of work" fund, the Trade Unions strengthen the power of organized labour in skilled industries by restricting the competition of unemployed outsiders.

It is of course an admission that such a condition was not expressed in the acts of cessionthat in their terms there is nothing restricting the power of Congress on the subject of slavery in the Districtnot a word alluding to it, nor one inserted with such an intent.

Explain the necessity of restricting immigration to (a) prospective immigrants, (b) immigrants just granted admission to the country, (c) persons just refused admission, (d) exploiters of cheap labor, (e) ordinary citizens.

With respect to the clause, restricting congress from prohibiting the migration or importation of such persons, as any of the states now existing, shall think proper to admit, prior to the year 1808.

This certainly cannot be called limitation, and we are all free to follow the lines of our own individuality in every other direction; so that, although the recognition of our relation to the Originating Spirit safeguards us from injuring ourselves or others, it in no way restricts our liberty of action or narrows our field of development.

In this way, he restricted the range of his subjects and displayed a somewhat literal mind; but what he had seen and felt he touched with a light fancy and with considerable imaginative power.

Some of the most repulsive of these were repealed or altered, particularly those restricting manumissions.

Thereafter the colonizationists found it advisable to restrict their efforts to individual cases.

It could not possibly have done so without restricting its operations, if only for a time.

Landed aristocracy, Established Church, military classes, privileged classes, restricted suffrage, and all the rest, have been abolished in their country for two generations and more: but behold, the poor man finds himself (or fancies himself, which is just as dangerous) no richer, safer, happier after all, and begins to see a far simpler remedy for all his ills.

However restricted the scope of other forest influences, that of the winds is universal.

The House of Representatives in 1819 adopted the Missouri bill with the amendment restricting slavery, but the Senate did not concur; and Alabama was admitted as a Territory without slavery restriction.

She restricted his hours of play.

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