environmental restrictions

collocation in English

meaningsofenvironmentalandrestriction

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environmental
adjective
uk
/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.təl/us
/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.t̬əl/
relating to ...
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restriction
noun[C or U]
uk
/rɪˈstrɪk.ʃən/us
/rɪˈstrɪk.ʃən/
an official limit ...
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(Definition ofenvironmentalandrestrictionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Local craftsmen still know the ritual, economic, political and environmental restrictions that were traditionally applied to certain of these valuable raw materials.
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The second is an alternative conventional production system, with no environmental restrictions attached, but allowing for the physical restructuring of rice plots.
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Physical features may play a role, but for many non-western societies it is true that social factors direct actions more often than environmental restrictions do.
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The third is for the profession to recognize (as happens more readily in some other parts of the world) that so-called environmental restrictions are actually business opportunities to be exploited.
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Muir is commonly understood to be the father of modern environmentalism for his acknowledgment of "environmental restrictions" upon civilization.
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One of the hurdles in our path consists of environmental restrictions.
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That is the way of getting around environmental restrictions in the west and dumping them on the third world.
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For one thing, all environmental restrictions impose costs on industry.
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This not only threatens an enormous tax increase, but is also a factor that threatens to force businesses to move abroad to countries where the environmental restrictions are less stringent.
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I submit that in the future, with the increasing environmental restrictions on the generation of electrical power by fossil fuel means, nuclear energy will become a much more viable alternative.
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Once used in photographic and measuring instruments or long-life applications, they are now unavailable due to environmental restrictions.
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Government regulations, tariffs, environmental restrictions and varying standards of what constitutes labor exploitation are problems that can cost organizations millions of dollars.
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The user can usually input wind data, height and roughness contour lines (topography), turbine specifications, background maps, and define environmental restrictions.
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Environmental restrictions meant that the dam had to have a clean structure, so the operational equipment is located within the dam wall itself.
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Such additives can replace halogenated flame retardants, which face environmental restrictions.
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Environmental restrictions, such as those placed on high-sulfur coal in the 1980s, brought further mine closures.
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The decline is the result of price competition with natural gas and environmental restrictions on emissions.
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Its environmental restrictions on building and commercial development have been more or less strictly enforced, helping it to keep its original character.
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