constrain

Isha Aran at Jezebel worries that the show “glorif[ies] the way religion can constrain people.”

This argument is vital to a larger argument: Do we obey the rules set up to constrain government or not?

But when you can sing like that, how can you constrain that voice and possibly be comfortable in the back?

President Obama is at least as eager to constrain Medicare spending as Republicans, possibly even more so.

The response will be to get more security, to constrain how freely ambassadors move around.

The dramatist "may call up the shadows of the past, but like the Witch of Endor, in order to constrain them to reveal the future."

And the very instant the cloth was removed, she rose, unable to constrain herself any longer, and ran up stairs to her own room.

O for the lyre of some Orpheus, to constrain, with touch of melodious strings, these mad masses into Order!

I have urged him to use his power to constrain her, but he loves liberty himself too dearly, he says, to put force upon another.'

None did awake them, none did constrain them to eat, drink, nor do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it.