unnecessary restriction

collocation in English

meaningsofunnecessaryandrestriction

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unnecessary
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈnes.ə.ser.i/us
/ʌnˈnes.ə.ser.i/
not needed or wanted, or more than is needed ...
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restriction
noun[C or U]
uk
/rɪˈstrɪk.ʃən/us
/rɪˈstrɪk.ʃən/
an official limit ...
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(Definition ofunnecessaryandrestrictionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The use of this locus leads him to postulate an extra,unnecessaryrestrictionon the gas properties.
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Anotherunnecessaryrestrictionis that propagation can only occur in one direction in a traditional spreadsheet.
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One man's essential control or desirable protection is another man'sunnecessaryrestrictionor excess of bureaucracy.
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In this case it represents anunnecessaryrestriction.
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For example, there is theunnecessaryrestrictionon the length of cable between the fixing point and the hand microphone instrument.
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That is anunnecessaryrestrictionon their trade at a time when we are trying to reduce burdens on our businesses.
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Again, that creates an unfair andunnecessaryrestriction.
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There is nounnecessaryrestrictionon such persons.
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Lifting thatunnecessaryrestrictionwould create a market for offal which would allow the system to flow again as it did before.
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However, the removal of these specific references to equipment will avoid anyunnecessaryrestriction on the grant aiding of newly developed machinery.
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The people affected feel that this puts an unreasonable andunnecessaryrestrictionon those providing and designing labels.
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Does it do so withunnecessaryrestrictionon civil liberties?
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On the other hand, we do not wantunnecessaryrestriction.
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The general consensus of opinion then was that this was anunnecessaryrestriction.
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This seems to us to be anunnecessaryrestriction.
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That would be anunnecessaryrestrictionon the agency's ability to develop appropriate alternative arrangements for its staff.
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That is putting anunnecessaryrestrictionon industry.
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It seems to me anunnecessaryrestrictionon the liberty of the subject.
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It seems to us an entirelyunnecessaryrestrictionto prevent that being done.
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However, theunnecessaryrestrictionon the prosecution of people of 15 and 16 still remains.
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