Others were bound by legal restraints and could not speak at all.

"We're part of a larger organization and we have legal restraints.

He said legal restraints put the police in a quandary about testing the woman for the disease.

The police are used to functioning within legal restraints.

He said the United States was a model democracy "in which everyone, including the most powerful, is subject to legal restraint."

All legal restraints have been lifted so that they can now do as they will.

Britain has become a country where almost every aspect of industrial relations are now covered by legal restraints.

Counties in the worst fiscal shape are those with legal restraints on tax increases.

We should also examine the other legal restraints on telephone companies to exploit modern telecommunications technology.

At times, he seemed to act more like a Communist Party first secretary, oblivious to legal restraint.

Where are the legal restraints on the Bankers obscene bonuses and salaries?

He is under no legal restraint, but he remains under surveillance.

Are all legal restraints forbidden by the First Amendment?

This relaxation of legal restraints is always dangerous.

For the security services of the West, everything is reversed: they have legal restraints, few if any Arabic speakers and no cultural feel.

There are few legal restraints governing video surveillance.

Pornography has often been subject to censorship and legal restraints to publication on grounds of obscenity.

He continued, "You may know from your prior service that military arrest is a moral and legal restraint, not a physical restraint.

He found that 43 countries, some of them democracies like India and Colombia, were contemplating or had introduced new legal restraints on the press.

"Legal restraints," she wrote, "transform the deniers into martyrs on the altars of free speech."

Many performances, including The Fugees' reunion performance, could not be included due to legal restraints with the groups' record labels.

Already now, Hungary is setting a good example by laying down a strong legal restraint on state indebtedness in the constitution which is being drafted.

"Secure him with legal restraints."

Artists rightly resented this new legal restraint; it is the danger we libertarians have warned was implicit in any taxpayer funding.

But legal restraints, plus the political difficulty in today's Europe of sending conscripts off to far-away fights, leads to the obvious question: would they fight?