Too many women's lives have been constrained by the sexist views held by some people in society.
The boss has turned down our request to expand the Research and Development Department due to financial constraints.
We had to terminate the project due to time constraints.
The
ability of this university to achieve excellence in its programs is somewhat constrained by the determination of the administration to spend as little money as possible.
His lack of experience has been a significant constraint on his ability to move up in the company.
Social structures
often constrain individual behavior.
Constrained by its island site, Montreal is a compact city of apartments and renters.
The profit margin for the team is being constrained by increasingly excessive players' salaries.
Because she so totally lacks self-confidence, I felt
constrained to offer her encouragement, and tell her she had done a good job, even though I actually thought it was simply dreadful.
The more rigid the culture, the more extensive the constraints there are on people.
We have to learn to do our best within the constraints of our limited resources.
Even the most well-intentioned government has certain constraints that will inevitably keep it from achieving some of its goals in helping its poorest citizens.
She felt constrained to give the job to her nephew, despite the fact that she knew he wasn't the best person for the position.
The growth of our company has been seriously constrained by the poor state of the economy.
The budgets in every single ministry have been constrained in a desperate attempt to bring the deficit under control.
Alexander Hamilton once remarked, "Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."
Mary Robinson once noted that in a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
Naomi Wolf once stated that Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
She had to shut down her website due to time and budget constraints.
Many psychologists maintain that there are certain biological constraints, possibly within the genetic code itself, that limit the responses that can be taught.
Business leaders worry that the new tax will constrain growth of the tourist industry.
Venice in the 1600s, with its reputation for freedom from social and religious constraints, was the ideal place for opera to flourish.