constrain
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The precious metal has staged a breakneck rally in recent months, boosted by constrained supply as well as worries about mounting geopolitical risks.
We tend to imagine them as buildings, offices, legal codes or organizational charts — fixed structures that automatically constrain behavior.
From Salon
On beef, Mr. Youngkin explains, “prices are way up, and therefore cattle ranchers and farmers are selling their stock, which constrains supply. And that means that prices are going to stay high for a while.”
He is constrained by democratic institutions in the U.S., the necessity of maintaining alliances abroad, and public opinion as measured by polls and investors.
While the company has raised prices in an attempt to soften the blow, “those price increases in the current economic environment have become a factor in constraining volume growth,” Ford said.
From Barron's
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