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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
constrain .
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Examples
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Nevertheless, if having an unpopular name constrains employment opportunities or negatively affects how others perceive one, it is possible that names could have a causal effect on crime.
halls of macadamia 2009
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There may be a mandate that comes from the United Nations that kind of constrains what U.S. and other coalition forces can and cannot do.
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It "constrains;" that is, it lays a force upon us, as a strong hand draws us withersoever it will.
Sermons. Volume The Fourth. 1808-1892 1850
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Constitution "constrains" judges from pressuring juries to keep deliberating after they've repeatedly said they're deadlocked.
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But, Klingner said, the ongoing tension "constrains" the ability of the U.S. to send in envoys as they did in 1994 and 1996.
FOXNews.com 2009
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But this factor constrains consumers' spending power.
Credit Markets Vulnerable to Oil's Rise Richard Barley 2011
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Which constrains their actions a great deal and gives them less to recover from or rise above.
mrissa: TV main characters: why do they suck so? mrissa 2010
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Which constrains their actions a great deal and gives them less to recover from or rise above.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway timprov 2010
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Yet nothing in the emotional distress tort, or in the instructions that the Snyder jury was given, constrains the jury to focus only on time, place, and manner, to the exclusion of viewpoint.
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That pretty much constrains which weight-loss strategies will work and which will not.
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