constraining
present participle of
constrain
Meaning of constraining in English
- anti-libertarian
- armlock
- boundary
- box someone out phrasal verb
- box someone/something in phrasal verb
- cripplingly
- crowd
- curb
- curtail
- curtailment
- keep (herself) to herself idiom
- limit
- limit something to something
- limitation
- limitative
- stranglehold
- stunt
- suffocatingly
- tempered
- tie someone down phrasal verb
Examples of constraining
constraining
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Another difference was that the context sensitive vowels and consonant items differed with respect to the constraining context.
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Our results confirm that value rationality dominates in the decision-making about unfamiliar and constraining instruments.
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On the one hand, structures influence labour market participants' intentions and actions by enabling and constraining them.
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Agents' intentions are distally caused by reasons, and reasons are distally caused by the enabling and constraining influences of structures.
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Constraining metrical theory : a modular theory of rhythm and destressing.
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The protocols mentioned above, besides constraining interactions, neglect the fact that the agents in an open distributed system might want to interact more than once.
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Counteracting the conduct-book-like prescriptions of their words, the performative force of the female voice undoes the drama and defies its constraining messages.
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It is of a piece with the challenge of ' 'constraining' ' over powerful grammars that has been a traditional goal.
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Thus, regional trading blocs are unlikely to be able to adopt comprehensive welfare packages or labour rules of a strongly constraining kind.
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These two groups do not disregard voluntary measures, but if they have a choice, they prefer more constraining ones, because they consider them more efficient.
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This is accomplished by constraining the gain parameters to be (small) constants.
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In the case of constraining boundary conditions boundary layer s appear in the outflow region, connecting the central current sheet to the prescribed boundary.
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However, these acts will occur within a framework of both enabling and constraining factors.
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Periodically this has facilitated the enactment of legislation, promoted by anti-party reformers, constraining parties.
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The "projection facility" amounts to constraining expectations to a compact set in the basin of attraction of a locally stable steady state.
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