A restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
Place limits on (extent or access)
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1 Although the crisis magnifies Noonan's power, he remains bound by EU strictures.
2 Media reports are bound to underestimate the true scale of protest, however.
3 The market has been range - bound since late last week over political worries.
4 Likewise, the left thumb shall be bound to the right great toe.
5 The parts were bound for key military installations, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
1 Rider: Mark Cavendish When: Stage 11 Reason: Finished outside the time limit .
2 Others limit provision to families in crisis referred by child protection services.
3 The Daily Express offers two weeks for every year worked without limit .
4 I know it's difficult, however, limit yourself to answering the question posed.
5 They're opinion police who wish to limit dissenting thought and free discourse.
1 I said in the trouble of the moment, unable to restrain myself.
2 A senior loyalist source said it would be difficult to restrain militants.
3 Currently teachers can't physically restrain students unless they're a danger to others.
4 Potations do sometimes wake wines; turnips restrain passion; causes necessary to state.
5 But in the end he could not restrain himself and blurted out:
1 Its main strategy now is to severely restrict water use through rationing.
2 New Caledonia will restrict the use of plastic from July next year.
3 Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice.
4 California officials also this year passed a law to restrict placement agents.
5 North Dakota is the latest state to pass measures to restrict abortions.
1 These days peddlers no longer have to confine themselves to a market.
2 It would have been difficult to confine a nuclear war to Cuba.
3 Tell Burt to confine his observations and reports to the experimental data.
4 They think the cell they've prepared will be able to confine him.
5 Place the hen upon the nest-eggs and confine her to the nest.
1 Holly gunned the throttle quite a bit more than was absolutely necessary.
2 LaHood said the electronic throttle review would also look at other automakers.
3 Wired: Trigger throttle increases thrust as needed and returns to idle quickly.
4 Today's FDRs can record many more parameters including throttle and flight-control positions.
5 The Ferrari Roma also features Variable Boost Management for instantaneous throttle response.
Catch in or as if in a trap.
A fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh.
1 Who can trammel up consequences but the Lord of the Universe?
2 By good luck, Billy tells me, the trammel has made a good haul.
3 Briefly thus: I have but learnt of the trammel in which I am taken.
4 I like to be up before all the trammel starts.
5 How is she ever to know you, according to the rules which trammel society?
6 At once he saw the trammel spread for him.
7 I won't trammel you with so great a burden.
8 You can't trammel the creative mind." "Why not?" said Thomas.
9 My great trammel has been the non-existence of any definitely stated alternative on my opponents' part.
10 Here the pools are swept with small meshed trammel nets of all the fish that they contain.
11 But it may be still more completely hidden, as for instance in the common elliptic trammel , Fig.
12 Or is the tendency rather to trammel and divert them by so much laborious and irrelevant interference?
13 But sends no troops to trammel
14 A husband would trammel them.
15 That which is progress to-day, may it not one hundred years hence have become mere routine, and a downright trammel ?
16 I have studied every pothook and trammel of his first literary performance, to see what rays of genius could be discovered.
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