onerous restriction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofonerousandrestriction
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onerous
adjective
uk/ˈəʊ.nər.əs/us/ˈɑː.nɚ.əs/
difficult to do or needing a lot ...
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restriction
noun[C or U]
uk/rɪˈstrɪk.ʃən/us/rɪˈstrɪk.ʃən/
an official limit ...
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(Definition ofonerousandrestrictionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It imposes that moreonerousrestrictionsimply because the beneficiary happens for the time to be a married woman.
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Obviously, in many cases that is an entirely petty andonerousrestriction.
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Now that is a veryonerousrestriction, is it not?
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That is a prettyonerousrestrictionon a man's personal life.
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This is yet anotheronerousrestrictionagainst the unions which we shall vote against, unless we can be given a justification for this dramatic and far-reaching change in the law.
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I am concerned that pay-per-view on sporting programmes should mean what it says and not carry an undulyonerousrestriction, as now provided in clause 14.
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Schedule 1, which changes the existing legislation, imposes some onerous restrictions on the way in which the schemes are to work.
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I appreciate that it would be wrong to place guests and foreign diplomats in our midst under the onerous restrictions that we have to face.
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In 1966, further and more onerous restrictions were imposed.
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These two systems entail onerous restrictions on development and are completely out of step with the present need to encourage development.
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We have had to submit to many onerous restrictions on our personal freedom during the war.
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It should be our desire to stimulate, promote and encourage it in every way and not to shackle it with wholly unnecessary, arbitrary and onerous restrictions.
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Some local authorities have felt that they can deny their tenants the opportunity of exercising their democratic right of home ownership by imposing onerous restrictions and burdensome restrictive covenants.
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We have to use our judgment as to when the improvement has reached a point at which it will be safe to remove these very onerous restrictions.
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One consequence of that wider consumer choice is that the special regime imposing onerous restrictions on who can own what in the media industry is no longer needed or justified.
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