restrictive

Example Sentences

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At this stage, the flattening appears to reflect a market that believes policy is not restrictive enough to bring inflation back to target, rather than a market focused primarily on slowing growth.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 24, 2026

Meanwhile in Canada, the annual number of refugees being accepted has increased over the last decade – even as policymakers in recent years have shifted towards more restrictive immigration policies of their own.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

In recent years, the central bank’s answer to these questions has largely been data dependence—using contemporaneous data to determine whether policy is overly restrictive or accommodative.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Setting the rules is critical for federal legislation, with many things on the table, from the technicalities of how scholarship organizations operate to whether states can impose regulations more restrictive than the federal law.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

So it was not ignorance that led the Greeks to reject zero, nor was it the restrictive Greek number-shape system.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife