How To Use Constrain In A Sentence

However, the emphasis on structural constraints and formal controls provides only a partial view.
There are other constraints on the firm's capital, however, most importantly perhaps, the takeover constraint.
Faced by those constraints, the soldiers of the Royal Anglians face an uphill task and the official three-year time limit is already looking decidedly niggardly.
These structural problems will act as a major constraint on any potential recovery in the housing market.
The principle of the itinerary engine is simple: from a departure address and an arrival address, or from longitude/latitude coordinates, Maporama International's servers calculate an optimized itinerary, respecting several constraints: the shortest or the more rapid itinerary, a pedestrian or car itinerary, a multimodal itinerary Internet News: Travel Archives

Equally clearly, in these circumstances the quantity of will be a constraint upon.
We would expand the Smart award scheme for small companies which has been constrained by funding resources.
So this is a linguistic constraint.
Further work is needed at the conceptual level in this area to determine the exact nature of the constraints required.
For the late fifth and early sixth centuries, however, he was less constrained.
This constraint would effectively limit the amount of vehicles that a firm could service. 2.
Fitch cautioned that the country's sovereign ratings remained constrained by relatively low levels of external liquidity as well as what it described as formidable social and structural challenges. ANC Daily News Briefing
Abdallah, and there is none in my day more magical than I; yet do I not make use of gramarye save upon constraint. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I must however caution that financial and other constraints compel us to plan more conservatively than I imagine you would wish.
The three-layer system architecture of conflict detection based on fuzzy constraint network is put forward. A corresponding prototype is developed and its running process is described.
The government has placed tight constraints on spending this year.
Try relaxing the value of each bounded constraint one at a time, solve the modified problem, and see what happens to the optimal value of the objective function.
We can use relational database theory to implement Dualistic constraint database.
Dogmatic constraints, tactical stereotypes, schematism in place of originality, and the boring repetition of truisms are contributing factors in creative infecundity.
Premium cable - that is, unsponsored channels you pay for separately - doesn't have those constraints and is free to show us conflicts untempered by political correctness.
There are major financial constraints on all schools.
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This paper describes a case study of adaptation, constraint, and evolutionary innovation in pierid butterflies.
Intense deforestation is constrained to the few roads that do exist or around urban centers such as Iquitos, Puerto Maldonado, and Rio Branco. Southwest Amazon moist forests
It is appropriate therefore to see the state and its actors as facing strategic choices within constraints.
Private insurers are charged with implementing and administrating the elements of care that are funded out of the payroll tax, but those elements create a very tight, constrained sandbox for premium-driven short-term insurance to play in. Matthew Yglesias » What It’s All About
You also have to specify column types in a relational system, so you might find yourself constrained by, say, the length of the address field.
My talk with the old Dutchman, and the lies to which I was constrained, had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear to others; and now, after the strong admiration I had just experienced and the immoderacy with which I had continued my vain purchases, I began to think of it myself as very hazarded. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
And we would feel constrained to confess ourselves poor diagnosticians if George Bernard Shaw, the enfant terrible of nimble wit in contemporaneous literature, succeeded in disproving the existence in himself of the same strain of blood as coursed in the veins of Heinrich Heine. The Social Disability of the Jew
Quantitative growth ring analysis of fossil woods may be used only in well-constrained paleoecological studies where taxonomic and climatic sources of variability can be controlled, and additionally, of course, as a qualitative tool in paleoclimatic and paleoecological analyses. Supplementary Comments to NAS Panel « Climate Audit
But their conduct was equally constrained by codes - a mixture of religious strictures and the social cant that went with it. Times, Sunday Times
Clinical Relevance The olecranon is a key osseous constraint of the elbow.
We will continue to exert our best efforts to secure the liquidity and safety of our reserves holdings, while enhancing returns under the given constraints. Times, Sunday Times
It was just a tagboard cutout, and the original was locked away under a rune of constraint that would hold, she hoped, forever. THE FORBIDDEN GAME
Even more fundamental than these pragmatic constraints, however, is the educational philosophy underlying the two initiatives.
This paper discusses multiple objective parameter optimization under a certain constraint condition through genetic algorithm.
Now, of course, the judges/justices can try to distinguish precedent, etc. but that doesn't eliminate the fact that stare decisis has some inherent value in constraining judicial decisionmaking. Balkinization
From infancy through early adolescence, Semai children are largely unconstrained and free of external domination.
I was aware of a certain constraint on their part when they were in my presence.
Because of the universals I see, I'm much more interested in sociobiology, though -- the sense that evolution has formed our minds and thereby, in deep and powerful ways, constrained the types and shapes possible in human societies. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gord Sellar
This expected slowdown appears to be largely due to mounting affordability pressures, which have increasingly constrained housing demand. Times, Sunday Times
The Hamiltonian constraint NH = 0 defines a diffeomorphism structure on spatial manifolds by the lapse function N, but this is not identical to time. Einstein Still Rules, Says Fermi Telescope Team | Universe Today
She tried to appear friendly, but her constraint was obvious.
One could argue that McNamara is exhibit A in my case against what Thomas Sowell would call the unconstrained vision, which holds that certain people have so much knowledge and moral strength that they should be given great power over the rest. Robert McNamara , Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The difference will be exacerbated because birds, the most well-represented endotherms in the analysis, demonstrate constrained phenological plasticity due to photoperiodic induction of gonad maturation and migration, especially for long-distance migrants. The Guardian World News
ETC3 allows its users to select the parameters for the composition of some random poetry, based upon the “styles” of other poets, whereupon the software goes on to create a text that conforms to these preassigned constraints (be they in the form of a chosen subject, a chosen grammar, a chosen lexicon, etc.). Poetic Machines 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Boys undergo no period of constraint, in contrast to their lot among the Shavante.
In any case, the idea that variation is constrained by history is intrinsic to evolution, variations being modifications of what already exists in the line. A Disclaimer for Behe?
And even while operating under that constraint, Clinton proposed to expand Medicaid coverage to some 5 million uninsured children.
Rather than rewarding whistleblowers who had been punished for their good deeds, Obama has signing statemented away constraints on his power to retaliate against whistleblowers by firing them. Six Months of Immunity
This tolerance is less forgiving than PCI and also requires layout designers to pay attention to an additional set of constraints.
The Transportation Problem exists"more-for-less"paradox, which because the loose-constrained model has broadened the restriction, enlarged the feasible area, and bring new optimal solution.
Are you running into a lot of constraints among operators who are devoting digital bandwidth to multiplexes and additional pay-per-view channels?
The bandwidth constraints of the internet force us to find more concise ways to represent information.
‘I very much regret that I am constrained so to do,’ he said.
The complicated loading was solved by using of constraint equation and virtual mass element.
It hides physical constraints, which makes it easier to minimize the impact of changes to physical resources.
Another benefit of privatization, which I thought that Brad DeLong endorsed, is that it might constrain the political tendency to promise a free lunch. Social Security Arithmetic, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Besides, the more constraint put on opportunities of factor marketing, the less the reservation price and the elasticity of supply was, therefore the share of factor income became less.
Absent a critical cultural adaptation, human beings could never have thrived in the face of this constraint.
Resource constraints meant that this recommendation was not followed, with predictable consequences.
But we hear budget constraints and disappointing viewing figures have been blamed for the decision not to recommission the series. The Sun
It may seem too much like confinement, a denial of individual enterprise and the constraining of intuition into patterns of conformity.
The West Indies were constrained early in their chase by some healthy swing bowling aided by the overcast conditions.
We now know quite a bit about the human mind, how it constrains our imaginations by forcing information into boxes called ontological categories, and what kinds of cognitive errors including projection it is prone to. Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Why the Biblical God Is So Human (Part 1)
Biotech is realizing that its rosy financial outlook has its limits and constraints.
All these constraints form the third crucial stage of the evolution of life on earth.
At the time he was busy mimeographing handouts about ordering constraints among syntactic transformations.
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about the extraordinary Alexis Soyer is that, while he too fashioned himself a man of letters, he would also transcend the constraints of this literary model and, far ahead of his time, prefigure the flamboyant personas of today's celebrity chefs. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
To generate data for a user-defined type column with a unique constraint, you must use the data bound generator or a custom data generator.
Constraint-based programming is an artificial intelligence technique which finds the optimum way to allocate means and resources.
Women are too often constrained by family commitments and by low expectations.
Experimental research has been made on clamping constraint of two pieces steel plate spring for automobiles.
For instance, in Germany there are much tighter institutional constraints and legislative requirements surrounding consultation with employees and their representatives than exist in the UK.
For some reason he felt constrained to lower his voice.
As a result, the inequality volume constraint is not always active at the optimum solution. In other words, less material may lead to a stiffer structure for an optimum material layout.
As a kind of knowledge, design constraint plays the important role in the product development.
If any other factors accounted for the increase of women to the labor force, I'd have to suggest only that emigrations during the period may have brought in demographics of young, unmarried women with fewer constraints, or married families with women emigrating with renewed energy and hope that reinforced the innovations going on at the time. Electric Liberation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
These structural problems will act as a major constraint on any potential recovery in the housing market.
A new liberty will arise, so the monitory promise goes, not in any freedom from constraints too subtle for the hungry to perceive, but in class consciousness.
The country's progress was constrained by a leader who refused to look forward.
This strategy is helping the prison system to outlast current budget constraints so it can re-emerge once state revenues recover.
Unless supplemented and constrained by minority rights, state nation-building is likely to be oppressive and unjust.
Hutchinson is constrained by an Arkansas ballot initiative in his state to vote only for the term-limit measure voters there approved.
The optimization model of multi-product inventory with chance constrained attributes based on behavioral portfolio theory is established, which are solved as well.
These boundaries can be moved when people take collective action in rebellion against a particular constraint. The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
May the Lord graciously grant us this holy faith and the love for Christ that rises from it - a love that is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, constraining us to lean on him alone.
Margarita, as beautifull as the best: but yet so peevish, scornefull, and fantasticall, that she disdained any good advice given her; neyther could any thing be done, to cause her contentment; which absurd humors were highly displeasing to her husband: but in regard he knew not how to helpe it, constrainedly he did endure it. The Decameron
To avoid the charge of monomania, the authors are careful to constrain their claims.
Note that this means that the domain and codomain of input constraints must be the same - if this is not the case, an exception is raised.
But after more than four years now, we are constrained to take a hard and serious look at the whole enterprise.
It proclaims the burdens of pollution control regulation, displaying industry as suffocating under costly yet trivial constraints.
He would hate being confined, constrained and any love he had for her would change over time if she asked that of him.
According to the characteristics of low voltage power line, the automatic relay routing algorithm with relay constraints is employed in user data receiving.
Businesses will also have to contend with space constraints. Times, Sunday Times
Punishment by reciprocity is guided by principles of cooperation and equality rather than adult authority and constraint.
The ultimate obstacle is not one of technique but of political and ethical constraint.
And to ask such questions, it must ask the further question: What is human nature, and what guideposts and constraints does it set for the kind of life we can choose?
It is true for intra-generational talk as well that speakers are not constrained to use Creole to respond to a Creole utterance.
Vacations when you have kids are somewhat constrained by necessity.
The challenge of science is to overcome the constraints of our neurological wetware and understand a physical world that we know only second-hand and incompletely.
It will sharply boost military spending, reorder budgetary priorities, and put constraints on discretionary spending for other programs.
Step 6: Thank the lord for sex, drugs and rock'n roll: Reagan and company may have hated the 1960s youth rebellion, but they sure glommed on to a key feature of it: People wanted to be liberated from society's constraints and from a government that was betraying our nation's ideals. Les Leopold: How to Earn $900,000 an Hour While Unemployment Soars
This suggests an unconstrained loop shape, even in rather immature specimens of this form.
From now on Mr Trimble can negotiate peace only under two, severe constraints.
More choice in formats for library customers may mean more constraints on choices in materials acquisition.
The freedom of much animal behaviour from physically specifiable constraints implies that many animals must have inner representations and symbolic language.
Hence, although banks provide a constraint, they do not ensure efficiency.
To illustrate the addition or alteration of upper bounds we will start by adding the constraint to problem P2 of Section 7.1.
It remains, indeed, a sublime mystery that Bach's exalted creative ideals appear to have been so little constrained by the limited means at his disposal.
It posits that widescale school reform begins with changes in governance to increase state and local school authority and to constrain school district, board, superintendent, and centralized administration.
Social conservatives are anxious to constrain America's larger liberalism by protecting traditional morality from the corrosive effects of untrammeled personal freedom and the disruptions of a healthy, churning economy.
Ideally continuity systems will be positive aids that enhance organizations' flexibility without overly constraining individuals.
But, heigho! some fly or other is the indispensable adjunct of every pot of ointment, and while I was still jumping for joy at having passed the steep barrier of such a Rubicon, there came a letter from Miss JESSIMINA which constrained me to cachinnate upon the wrong side of nose! Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
If time is a constraint, and it usually is, you may want to consider self-study courses or find an experienced mentor.
It was a small dog, about a foot high, the size constrained by the amount of silver wire Lirael could easily obtain. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Another example of resource constraints in the service sector is the shortage of trained motor mechanics required by garages.
Capacity and other resource constraints which may limit the target's ability to respond to increases in demand.
So think about it this way: if you've got an artificial constraint, artificial constraints lead to arbitrary distinctions and a skewed worldview.
Not only is there a wide range of bioagents to identify, but the demands of field use place constraints on the complexity and size of the sensor devices and attendant instrumentation.
Their utility functions may remain unchanged, but the income constraints which now confront them have altered.
In such grammars, conflicts among semantic and syntactic constraints are resolved in terms of ranking.
I no longer thought of God in the analogy of a human body, yet I was constrained to conceive thee to be some kind of body in space, either infused into the world, or infinitely diffused beyond the world -- and this was the incorruptible, inviolable, unchangeable substance, which I thought was better than the corruptible, the violable, and the changeable. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
The time constraints meant that she had to testify in full stage make-up and dressing gown. Times, Sunday Times
The primary mission of industrial production managers is planning the production schedule within budgetary limitations and time constraints.
Collection, storage and transmission of data about these activities are constrained by the energy requirements and size of the recording loggers and transmitters.
The reasons for doctors under-reporting adverse drug reactions include fear of litigation, diffidence, and complacency, and pharmacists are likely to hampered by similar constraints.
I feel constrained to write and ask for your forgiveness.
It is not possible to reduce congestion without some form of demand constraint. Times, Sunday Times
A generic constraint on cellular machines is the inherent inexactness of the computational elements comprising a biological regulation unit.
the dog was unconstrained
Here the response to currency devaluation and capital flight would be to impose further cuts on social policies and further constraints on the poor.
In this paper, the method of Lagrangean indetermined multipliers is adopted to transfer a stationaryvalued Problem with constraint condition(s) into another one without constrain condition.
However, existing knowledge modeling approaches for product configuration can not express products' constraint semantics, parameter variable configuration and customers' needs explicitly.
Many in the natural sciences think that we are at a threshold of either adapting our living to the constraints of nature or wreaking incredible damage to Earth as we destroy ourselves.
There is a serious intellectual case for scaling back commitments in line with changed threats and budgetary constraints. Times, Sunday Times
At a deeper level, you may want to have constraints such as uniqueness of an element value, multiplicity of an element, or restriction of the values of an element.
The prospects for improving labor standards at the domestic level are constrained by two countervailing market forces.
PeptiVir, Inc. (Aurora, CO) is an early stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of a conformationally-constrained, synthetic peptide-based vaccine platform for the prevention of viral diseases. PRWeb - Daily News Feed
Congestible" refers to goods that are nonrival for a certain amount, until a capacity constraint is reached. Regulatory Pollution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
These creative constraints he placed came from a deep conviction in his own values -- and also seemed to destine him for limited impact. Viral Mehta: The World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion
The indebted food maker pulled off a 1.1 billion refinancing in an attempt to escape a web of financial constraints. Times, Sunday Times
Capacity and other resource constraints which may limit the target's ability to respond to increases in demand.
The emission standards were set without regard to the constraints of technological or economic feasibility that had previously influenced policy-making.
Basing a right to health care on an obligation to protect equality of opportunity is compatible with the sort of tiering the British have, but it does not require it, and it imposes some constraints on the kind of tiering allowed. Justice and Access to Health Care
The correlation coefficient is high, probably close to .8 out of 1.0, meaning that the economy is about 80% constrained by oil. Matthew Yglesias » Trade Deficit Now Mostly Oil
What we await is another deregulation bill that, like the 1997 deregulation solved the most specific and important constraint. Matthew Yglesias » FDR, Reagan and Our Current Predicament
This suggests that the mechanisms which constrain fetal growth to prevent maternal-fetal disproportion do not effect long term programming of cardiovascular disease.
Half edge graph theory can represent complex structure and various constraint accurately.
Nevertheless, even absolute monarchs or totalitarian dictators are constrained by forces beyond their control.
The common resource constraint for inventory systems is a linear resource constraint which may result in high operating costs in multi-item (R, Q) inventory systems.
If a cohen raises a boy as his son, the boy will not have the privileges nor the constraints of the priesthood.
The constraint of necessity is not sufficient to settle the notion of deductive validity, for the notion of necessity may also be fleshed out in a number of ways. Logical Consequence
I am sorry to say that a pestilent stricture of the imagination, or rather, of the compositive faculty so constrains me that I have not yet finished the poem I have been writing with regard to the discovery and service of this beast. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
Their utility functions may remain unchanged, but the income constraints which now confront them have altered.
In general, constraint satisfaction problems are NP-Complete.
These faraway lands offer each of us the chance to escape our safe, constrained and overcrowded homeland to better define ourselves on our own terms. Times, Sunday Times
Where might symmetry play a useful role in imposing First Amendment constraints on regulations of commercial speech? Archive 2009-04-01
idle, unconstrained gossip
There is a further constraint in that the Ministry of Defence will keep a watchful eye on any potential partner or owner.
There is a further constraint in that the Ministry of Defence will keep a watchful eye on any potential partner or owner.
Using the composite good convention, show how the discount coupon has affected your budget constraint. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Most of them have the ideas, acumen and determination to expand their activities but are constrained by the lack of finance capital.
Individual choice is constrained by kin group exogamy.
The relative simplicity of the style, combined with its ability to incorporate in some abstracted manner more traditional architectonic elements -- Wagner's work incorporates clear if modified references to everything from Byzantine to Baroque -- renders it particularly useful for modern church-building, especially when budgets are a concern; there is less of the risk of the finished product appearing, in some sense, undercooked, when key decorative elements are removed due to monetary constraints. Jugendstil
Nobody wanted their little princesses to live the life of the great French tragedienne, with her denial of moral constraint, her ridiculous traveling menagerie and her monumental myth-making. Actress, Seductress
There are two ways that the laws of deductive logic have been thought to provide rational constraints on belief: (1) Synchronically, the laws of deductive logic can be used to define the notion of deductive consistency and inconsistency. Bayesian Epistemology
We are constrained to apply only reasonable force when we, our families, or our property is attacked.
Anyhoo, the sequence finds a new pattern in the regularity of two "couplets" of sonnets (1122), the opening sonnet marking the shift with assonant rhymes (I did reckon those rhymes gave a sense of instability and tension, pushing against the constraints, which ... fitted here; it kinda makes sense now why I felt that way). Still Lives
He will seize any opportunity to pontificate, expressing his views with fervid self-assurance and with little concern for time constraints or his audience.
Perhaps the main constraint is lack of money.
That power was not subject to the constraints referred to above. Times, Sunday Times
The total variation constraint item is added to the wave equation inversion objective functional, to improve the stability and the resolution of inversion.
In the first chapter we present multi - item newsboy model with uncertain demand and budget constraint.
What is the constraint in handheld networked computing? Why It’s the Megabits, Not the MIPs, That Matter
This paper presents a product development process simulation model taking account of resource constraint.
The genetic algorithm was applied to solute nonlinear constraint optimization problems. The optimum solution was explained in determine the nature from the craft's angle.
The initial chapters begin with feature by feature analysis and include explanations of the conventions and constraints on dealing with vector image creation.
When you hire a private jet, you get complete flexibility and freedom from the usual constraints of flying.
Prices are not guaranteed, but imports are constrained by levies and restrictions.
We don't want the kind of world we'll get if we allow global climate change, resource conflicts, resource constraints, environmental degradation, overwhelming population growth, helter-skelter urbanization, war, social injustice and other looming problems to go unaddressed. William S. Becker: Let's Talk About the Future We Want
He felt constraint in her presence.
This indicates that the applied geometrical constraints alone are not sufficient to explain the observed radial arrangements.
The more highly constrained and ritualised the genre, the more likely we are to be able to identify norms.
Our strengths include our commitment to truth and healing, our unconstrained support for one another, and the gift that is Tarot.
Furthermore, in times of economic constraints, the incorporation of aspects of an economics-based strategy may be beneficial.
There are a number of constraints which make it uneconomical to use.
Materialized view selection cost constraint is one of the most important issues in data warehouse development.
It may seem too much like confinement, a denial of individual enterprise and the constraining of intuition into patterns of conformity.
Poor soil has constrained the level of crop production.
Given space constraints, I focus my response on the most salient areas of disagreement rather than the many issues on which we are in accord.
Fiscal constraints will dominate policymaking in this Parliament.
This dogma is supposed to free the writerly side of one's brain for unconstrained truth-telling.
The name was taken out of the Psalms for the Fourteenth Day of the Month, and was bestowed on her in obedience to her father's conviction that, where parents were constrained to give their child so indistinctive a surname as Smith, they ought to counterbalance it with a Christian name more original and vivacious. Sydney Smith
The iteration of geometric programming with constraint positive negative term equations is applied to the optimal design for bolted tight connections used in pressure vessels.
This combination process, called unconstrained fibring, can be generalized, by allowing C1 and Combining Logics
In the run-up to devolution it was widely expected that one of the main challenges would be fiscal constraint.
Clearly, the existing technologies are a limitation and multimedia must temporarily be constrained by the platforms currently available to deliver it.
Businesses will also have to contend with space constraints. Times, Sunday Times
This is so because the former quite possibly face weaker external constraints and because management may not encounter such sophisticated incentive structures.

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