constrain
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The Pentagon said at the time that private companies should not be able to constrain military action.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
They may be able to constrain objects that existed at redshifts greater than 10, even though the mergers of their descendants that create the gravitational waves happen much later in cosmic history.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
It has a liberal side—secure property rights, courts that constrain the state—that shields entrepreneurs from arbitrary state power, ranging from selective prosecution to outright expropriation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The overall thrust of the package, the Evercore analysts said, is to reduce regulatory barriers that constrain housing construction by streamlining environmental reviews and encouraging localities to adopt zoning and building-code best practices.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Why should our experience at 10 kilometers an hour constrain the laws of nature at 300,000 kilometers per second?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
I think that constrains what you’re able to do.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
The state’s limited refinery capacity makes it more vulnerable to crude price shocks, and its mandate for anti-smog gas formulations in the summer also constrains gas supplies, pushing prices higher.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
As a result, the idea that oxygen constrains insect size has not been completely ruled out.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
Treating them as something society can simply “pause” doesn’t reduce demand for digital services; it constrains the supply of compute, raising costs and outsourcing technological progress elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
A striking example of Bloor’s inability to acknowledge that nature constrains science is to be found on p.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Mike Trkay, CIO and chief customer officer of analytics software company FICO, said that while Gartner’s projection appears expansive, overall enterprise budgets remain tightly constrained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
That’s mainly because global refining capacity for finished fuels is severely constrained by geopolitical conflicts and facility disruptions, even as crude supplies remain relatively stable.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Because Bill Clinton, who was president when Roth IRAs were enacted in 1997, was wary of giving wealthy Americans a tax break they didn’t need, contribution limits also were constrained by family income.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Introducing Network Rail's new business plan, former chief executive Andrew Haines said that, given the constrained budget, funding would "need to go further than ever before".
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
They were ranked by sixes, though, and so were constrained in their firing, only a few able to present at once; and the causeway afforded no cover.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
"Ever since the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake in Japan, we realized that the tsunami data had really valuable information for constraining shallow slip," said Melgar.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
As a result, bank balance sheets got clogged, constraining the financing prospects of future projects tied to Oracle and OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
“Put differently, physical shortages are constraining actual consumption, so what appears to be demand destruction is a supply loss showing up on the demand side of the ledger.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026
The former Fox News personality, who served as an Army National Guard infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, disdains rules of engagement and other guardrails as constraining to the “warrior ethos.”
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
It was clear that a way had to be found to capture the profits of laboratory discoveries without undermining academic standards or constraining scientific inquiry.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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