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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

The FCC said it is “working to constrain the outsized power of national programmers while empowering local TV stations to serve their licensed communities.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

And the lack of safety cannot help but constrain your sense of the galaxy.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

As a result, the idea that oxygen constrains insect size has not been completely ruled out.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

Mr. Mitchell sees virtue in how diplomacy mitigates costs and constrains violence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Barron’s: Your latest research on immigration focuses on what happens when constrains are put on the availability of skilled foreign workers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025

California would likely be unable to raise the commercial rates to the level of the Medi-Cal ones, because state law constrains the legislature’s ability to do so.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2025

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

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

Evolving over more than a century, the church encompasses a jumble of styles and ideas, indebted to the region’s distinctive take on Art Nouveau but not constrained by it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

Omoto said the company has been working to sell assets in its power-generation business since its growth prospects are constrained by contractual obligations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

So though we had great will to speak to the other, we were constrained in our discourse; I fretted at my ignorance.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Despite rising computer-memory costs and a tight supply chain that have been constraining phone sales, the company is prospering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

"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

“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

While healthcare spending has benefited the economy, population trends could also limit the pace of growth in coming years by constraining the labor pool, as Schmid said this past week.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

In this sense, mathematics is just the opposite of constraining; it is empowering, and at the service of anyone who cares to use it.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos