constrain
IPA: kʌnstrˈeɪn
verb
- (transitive) To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressuring; to compel; to oblige.
- (transitive) To keep within close bounds; to confine.
- (transitive) To reduce a result in response to limited resources.
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Examples of "constrain" in Sentences
- They constrained the meeting.
- The men constrained the flow.
- They constrained against the wall.
- The idea was to constrain the upload.
- The work load constrained the process.
- The commands constrained the progession.
- The Mass is constrained to be held in church.
- I wanted to constrain the discussion to the facts.
- But the surface tension constrains the shape of the puddle.
- The development of the machine was constrained by several factors.
- But He delights to be held by beseeching hands, and our wishes 'constrain' Him.
- "We kind of constrain ourselves in a way to come up with different solutions to different problems."
- However, the Government did not want to "constrain" the commission from considering other options, including a compulsory levy.
- Even with the targeted procurement it is not enough to develop and empower women owned businesses, another constrain is the supply side.
- It will lay on you a far more solemn and awful clutch, and like a jailer with his hand on the culprit's shoulder, will 'constrain' you into the presence of the Judge.
- The Obama administration's new nuclear arms reduction agreement with Russia has been beset by a chorus of conservative claims that it will "constrain" U.S. efforts to develop missile defenses, in the words of Charles Krauthammer, among many others.
- The Association must so present its work to the churches as to "constrain" them to give; drag them by the chains of Christian duty to give; those who can of their abundance abundantly; those who must of their penury, with this tremendous self-sacrifice.