restrictive policy

collocation in English

meaningsofrestrictiveandpolicy

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restrictive
adjective
uk
/rɪˈstrɪk.tɪv/
us
/rɪˈstrɪk.tɪv/
limiting the freedom of someone or preventing something ...
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policy
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɒl.ə.si/
us
/ˈpɑː.lə.si/
a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a ...
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(Definition ofrestrictiveandpolicyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrestrictive policy

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Was therestrictivepolicya concern to you before then?
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That's a consequence of the toorestrictivepolicy.
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So restraint is arestrictivepolicy: it permits an agent to support coercive policies only if she has adequate secular grounds for those policies.
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To overcome these problems, restricting the number of languages seems to be the solution, but an effective and acceptablerestrictivepolicyis hard to devise.
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Some countries answer with arestrictivepolicyof legislative fiat.
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In countries lacking the appropriate legal concepts, prohibitions against feticide will rest on moral norms, an ambiguous state of affairs leading to disparate and only partiallyrestrictivepolicy.
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They contract, so it's arestrictivepolicy.
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Other countries adopt a partiallyrestrictivepolicy.
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I think it is conceded that thisrestrictivepolicyis no long-term solution to our national problems.
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The effects on health can best be reduced by means of arestrictivepolicy.
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It is an unnecessarilyrestrictivepolicyto withhold from hospital authorities the power to provide houses for their staff where it is deemed essential.
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We are operating arestrictivepolicyon release on licence and parole for all long-term prisoners.
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My information is that, on that ground at least, there can be no justification whatsoever for anyrestrictivepolicy.
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Such arestrictivepolicywould be inadequate in war-time, and consequently that scheme has been put in abeyance for the moment.
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Therestrictivepolicyhas led to dramatic reductions specifically in the number of drug users recruited.
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Our group would thus like to see arestrictivepolicywith regard to the promotion of tobacco consumption.
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Councils should have arestrictivepolicyand councillors must make their decisions carefully.
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Surely it cannot be argued that these decisions add up to arestrictivepolicy.
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I question the need for that morerestrictivepolicy.
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That is a risk anyrestrictivepolicyruns.
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