The AFL-CIO actually filed a brief in the Citizens United case that urged removal of reasonable restraints on campaign spending.

"The authorities exercised reasonable restraint in dealing with the situation," he said.

Under the law, certain "reasonable" restraints may be permitted, but the N.F.L. owners would have to show their rule has a pro-competitive effect.

However, certain reasonable restraints will be given effect in most jurisdictions.

She exercises reasonable restraint but persevering sweetness with an iron halo in a grating two-hour gamut.

He had advanced his plea to be allowed to return to the States, advanced it, as he thought, with reasonable restraint.

It is particularly encouraging that the authorities in Priština acted with reasonable restraint.

So, to entice candidates to agree voluntarily to reasonable restraints on their spending, the measure provides reduced postage rates, and free and reduced-cost television time.

The defendants asserted that this was a reasonable restraint of trade, and that the Sherman Act could not have meant to prevent such restraints.

Therefore, reasonable restraints were permitted, but this would only apply if the restraint was ancillary to the main purpose of the agreement.