The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The task is turned from the damming and restricting of wants to the creation of fine environments for them. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
This evil, however, is of too little importance to deserve the public attention, nor would it necessarily be prevented by restricting their numbers. 亚当·斯密.国富论.