The phrase "a constraining effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the influence or impact that limits or restricts something.
Example: "The new regulations have a constraining effect on the company's ability to innovate."
Alternatives: "a limiting impact" or "a restrictive influence."
It is fair to ask whether the paper's house editing style has had a constraining effect on its critic's prose.
The Justice Department's exposé may have had a constraining effect, but it's also true that the city's leadership is in flux.
It certainly seems like the zero bound has a constraining effect on monetary policy, if not in theory than at least in the minds of central bankers.
That's why we pressed Libya to disarm -- not because of a threat to U.S. citizens, but because of the threat of a "constraining effect... upon U.S. strategy for the greater Middle East".
Zona pellucida also exerts a constraining effect on this event.
Distinctions must be made between actor categories that have a constraining effect, such as private enterprises and donor organizations, and actors such as PPPs that enable legislation.
This hypothesis suggests that genetic covariance serves as a constraining force on the effect of selection [ 65], resulting in correlated patterns between genetic covariation and the direction of morphological change.
The attached strengthening materials not only globally shared a portion of the far-field load on the cracked steel section but also provided a local constraining effect, both of which reduced the crack mouth opening displacement (CMOD) and SIF.
A potential constraining effect is the erosion of local adaptation by the influx of locally maladaptive genes.
In the CA3-to-CA3 AC synapse examined here, the small frequency facilitation observed showed a brief, transient constraining effect of synapsins I + II.
At the same time, we argue that contextual factors, such as top-level endorsement, the necessity to comply with a performance measurement system, and the varying involvement of practice nurses produce tensions that can have both an enabling and constraining effect on the process of facilitation.
