The phrase "act as a constraint on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing limitations or restrictions imposed on a particular subject or action.
Example: "The new regulations will act as a constraint on the company's ability to expand its operations."
Alternatives: "serve as a limitation on" or "function as a restriction on".
It's not an integral part of the way we shape our social practices, nor a significant enough cultural norm to act as a constraint on our behaviour.
Just as your weaponry and inventory no longer act as a constraint on where you can go, so too does the world itself offer few barriers.
We ask to what degree these distribution costs act as a constraint on larger firms and can explain the high employment share in small plants.
We demanded an independent judiciary, because we believed that democracy and prosperity are impossible without the rule of law, and that the rule of law requires a judiciary that can act as a constraint on the government.
To the extent they act as a constraint on its behaviour towards its neighbours, which has in recent months at times verged on the belligerent, that may be no bad thing.
And so, part of that was -- we include data on cobalt and lithium which are key ingredients -- key materials for batteries in electric cars and we sort of just look at the data, you know, where there is a -- where's the production, but also can we tease out from there sort of could the availalbity of cobalt and lithium act as a constraint on the pace of which electric cars grow.
Productions compete for those resources, and that competition acts as a constraint on what artists can do and what audiences expect and like.
These results show that although chimpanzees are capable of spontaneous cooperation in a novel instrumental task, tolerance acts as a constraint on their ability to solve such cooperative problems.
It wasn't just that Trump had spoken admiringly of Putin, and that he appeared to share his basic calculus of power, in which force is what matters, and neither the law, nor the media, nor any political norm acts as a constraint on the leader and his will.
But, as Michael Hirsh pointed out in a recent article in The Washington Monthly, a number of Middle East scholars -- Richard Bulliet, author of "The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization," among them -- have argued that religion for many centuries actually acted as a constraint on tyranny in the Muslim world.
It also addresses broader legal policy questions, including the extent to which law acts as a constraint on state and non-state actors in cyberspace, whether the application of existing law to cyber activities is sufficient or new laws and norms are needed, and how they could be developed.
