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How To Use constrained In A Sentence

• We would expand the Smart award scheme for small companies which has been constrained by funding resources.
• For the late fifth and early sixth centuries, however, he was less constrained.
• 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
• 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
• 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