The phrase "a constraint upon" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing limitations or restrictions that affect a particular situation or decision.
Example: "The new regulations impose a constraint upon our ability to expand the business."
Alternatives: "a limitation on" or "a restriction regarding".
An inability ever to countenance judicial murder may be recommendable by critical to intuitive thinking as a constraint upon practical reflection in an emergency.
Rather, he places his hope in the shared moral concepts of the citizenry, which act as a constraint upon the choices of the sovereign.
People give valid consent in other desperate circumstances, for instance to a lifesaving operation, and acting out of a reasonable sense of moral obligation is a way of exercising one's freedom rather than a constraint upon it (we consider below unusual senses of obligation in the context of religious stranger donation).
In this study, pooling individuals placed a constraint upon our ability to measure DE between the (double recessive) Yellow and (dominant) Colored morphs of these spiders and hence to detect gene pathways associated with the color polymorphism.
This sounds like a major constraint upon the geometry of a tree, but the reality is that "the geometric possibilities of evolutionary trees are nearly endless" (Gould 1997).
Landauer's argument suggests that, purely from the abstract properties of a logical operation one can deduce a thermodynamic constraint upon any physical system which is required to act as an embodiment of that logical operation.
Winter cold, for example, cannot have a direct effect upon migrant species that are not present in the region during that season, but nonetheless is often a strong constraint upon their distributions, probably as a result of its effect upon habitat or food availability.
The unusual codon content that is imposed upon nPTB by its location in a low G+C isochore could act as a uniform constraint upon translation in various cell types.
Moreover, a high population density in an agrarian society, dependent upon agriculture for its sustenance, is likely to be a severer constraint upon human welfare than would the same density in a highly industrialized society, in which the bulk of national product is not of agricultural origin.
A lack of accessible veterinary services in the area is also a strong constraint upon the industry, as was reported by Mutua et al.[ 24] and Kagira et al.[ 14].
We observe that the pollution standards define a common constraint upon the joint strategy space of the regions.
