verb
definition
To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressuring; to compel; to oblige.
definition
To keep within close bounds; to confine.
definition
To reduce a result in response to limited resources.
noun
definition
The act by which something is constrained.
Examples of constraining in a Sentence
Under the constraining power of the Roman Empire the older city states were reduced to the position of municipalities, and their financial administration became dependent on the control of the Emperor - as is abundantly illustrated in the correspondence of Pliny and Trajan.
But even his eloquence was constraining and constructive - a personal call for immediate and universal co-operation; and that personal influence survives to this day in the institutions of his people, and perhaps still more in their character.
These results provide constraining data for models of inflectional morphology.
Guests must be at least 54 inches tall in order to ride, and the over-the-shoulder safety harnesses may be constraining and uncomfortable for guests with wide shoulders or thick torsos.
Some doctors refer to the girdles as constraining devices so as not to upset their patients further.
On the other hand, Kant's religion is of a type which requires a sort of deistic God, standing outside the world and constraining it into moral paths, or standing outside our moral struggles and rewarding our goodness.
On the other hand, it is not too much to say that, from the end of 1759 to the end of 1761, the unshakable firmness of the Russian empress was the one constraining political force which held together the heterogeneous, incessantly jarring elements of the anti-Prussian combination.
On the other hand, it was Tirpitz who not only conducted the practical advocacy of these schemes in the Reichstag, but also organized the service of propaganda in the German press and on the platform, putting popular pressure on the parliamentary representatives of the nation and constraining them to agree to the enormous expenditure which these schemes entailed.
The syllogism is ineffective, belonging to argumentation, and constraining assent where what we want is control of things.
The time-out area should not be a constraining or frightening place, such as a locked closet.