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restrictive

adjective as in contrary

adjective as in provisional

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They may become more common and more restrictive as a future cost control, he added.

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The statement comes amid the Pentagon’s move to enforce a new unprecedentedly restrictive media policy that paints basic reporting methods as criminal activity.

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They returned to Wicksell’s original interpretation that the financial markets would do a better job than inflation in assessing whether policy was restrictive.

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And as the professionals had predicted, that grip definitely feels easier to hold now that I am working with smaller numbers and a more restrictive budget.

Sanctions act as restrictive measures and can be placed on businesses and individuals to achieve specific foreign policy or national security objectives.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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