constraining
IPA: kʌnstrˈeɪnɪŋ
noun
- The act by which something is constrained.
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Examples of "constraining" in Sentences
- Living in a parliamentary system as I do, the idea of constraining political lives seems a little odd.
- SCOTUS punted in constraining the very general right to keep and bear arms to simply self-defense purposes.
- I just won ` t be buying the next two books unless they follow those pesky "constraining" "adventure fiction" staples ...
- He loses not a moment in 'constraining' His disciples to go away to the other side, as if in haste to remove the last hindrance to something that He had been longing to get to.
- He aims only to disengage from the productions and the power a will to knowledge that may be identified as a constraining will, regardless of the status of the knowledge it discovers.
- Now, of course, the judges/justices can try to distinguish precedent, etc. but that doesn't eliminate the fact that stare decisis has some inherent value in constraining judicial decisionmaking.
- Look at the neighborhood of a distillery -- an influence goes forth from that spot which reaches miles around -- a kind of constraining influence, that brings in the poor, and wretched, and thirsty, and vicious.
- Netshitenzhe said virtually all the commissions - the conference's debating forums - believed that monopoly capital did things, such as constraining higher rates of growth and social inclusion, that had to be dealt with.
- In this contest, the state acted as a sort of referee between Egypt's secular reformists and its religious conservatives whose objective was "street censorship," a practice that Mehrez defines as constraining and contaminating the cultural field "by imposing conservative religious values on the secular players."
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