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That connection appears to restrict how freely the plants can adapt, with selection for larger flowers taking precedence over the potential benefit of earlier flowering.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Chinese authorities tightly restrict access to Tibet for foreign journalists, and AFP knows of no overseas outlets that have been able to visit the disaster site there.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

A Supreme Court decision to force prediction markets to be governed by the same rules as sportsbooks would restrict 18- to 20-year-olds from betting on sports in most states.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

California’s utilities face potentially ruinous liabilities that can drive up costs, restrict grid investment and leave wildfire survivors waiting years for compensation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

But periodic attempts to discipline bribe takers, restrict market activities, force servi-cha vehicles off the road, and confiscate cash were met with widespread resistance.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

The Bass campaign’s decision came after The Times questioned whether the donations might run afoul of a city law that restricts campaign contributions by city contractors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

That included designating Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism, which restricts foreign direct investment, global trade and access to the world’s financial system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The government policy, which came into effect from 1 September, restricts mandatory uniform items with school logos to three for primary schools and four for secondary schools, with the latter including ties.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

The loss of the princesses' skulls restricts the kinds of analyses that can be performed, and the team has not yet completed every type of investigation it hopes to conduct.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

“I shudder to think what that means. But perhaps it will limit Kronos’s power. For a time, at least, he is confined to a human form. It binds him together. Hopefully it also restricts him.”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

Last year, Orr persuaded the City Council in Burleson to rezone the land, which had been restricted to agriculture, to permit retail and housing.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

That result was surprising because, beyond the quantum limit, electrons should be restricted to the lowest Landau level.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

The airport’s cargo holds are often filled with aircraft parts and electronic components, as well as other restricted goods, according to the documents and officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Around the same time, Beijing also reportedly restricted travel for two of Manus' co-founders, preventing them from leaving China.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Many species were apparently new to science, and even those that seemed familiar were surprising—some were usually restricted to tropical rice paddies.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Sundararajan says the designation should bring faster clearances, emergency repair mechanisms and an Indian cable-repair capability, along with legally protected cable zones around landing sites and routes, restricting anchoring and trawling.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

In March, a federal district judge granted the trust a preliminary injunction, temporarily restricting the ballroom construction from proceeding while the litigation continued.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

Nothing stops a parent from restricting apps, capping screen time or banning phones from bedrooms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Schultz’s original bill would have phased out pesticides with PFAs and put California in line with Maine and Minnesota, which passed laws restricting their use.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

But there was a difference between suppressing the publication of research findings and restricting the personal give-and-take among scientists that was indispensable for scientific progress.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik