constraints

In a world of constraints and an environment under stress, why should he have to share with them?

It’s a temporary grant of power to someone to govern for a period of time, within the constraints of the system, and then return power back to the people.

Given the constraints, he was wildly successful.

Last month, he claimed that he refrained from prosecuting Clinton during his first term because “it would look terrible” — an implicit bow to political constraints.

In the name of war, this century has seen an astonishing erosion of constraints on that very power, as Yale law professor Harold Hongju Koh details in his illuminating new book, "The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century."