The phrase "act constrains" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be a misspelling or misphrasing of "act constrains" which should likely be "act constraints."
Example: "The new regulations impose act constraints that limit our ability to operate freely."
Alternatives: "legal limitations" or "regulatory restrictions."
(The Dodd-Frank Act constrained the ability of the Fed to help individual financial institutions, but in my assessment left the door open to various kinds of broader assistance to classes of assets or groups of companies — either through the Fed discount window for lending to banks or through some mechanism to be specified later).
Speaking about his latest book, The End of Power, the Venezuelan-born writer and academic, Moisés Naim, pointed out that the vast majority of democratic leaders find their capacity to act constrained by tiny majorities, the exigencies of coalition or having to share power – as Obama must – with a legislature of a different hue.
Puppeteer Tom Bonham was capable enough and frankly, I thought his homemade puppets were really freaking cool, but the act, constrained to a small tabletop scene on that wide open stage, just wasn't Vegas material.
If governments do not act to constrain carbon emissions, the current business initiatives, which assume such constraints in the future, will eventually wither.
But while lower demand and a sluggish economy normally act to constrain inflation, some experts said the pressure on prices in the months ahead might be driven by economic activity elsewhere in the world, not just inside its biggest economy.
"The population trends are downwards, so now is a prime time to act to constrain further growth in these fisheries to keep them at sustainable levels".
Further, some argue that these changes at the gene level might act to constrain the type of morphological change that can occur (Wake 1991; Gould 2002).
Only the most recently formed plastic hinge is active, whereas all previously formed plastic hinges experience elastic relief, and the plastic kinks present there act as constraining load (Fig. 6).
Their work sets out similar concerns to those argued here, discussing how invoked attitudes can be viewed as operating along a 'cline of implicitness' (Macken-Horarik & Isaac 2014: 89), where different environments of appraisal, from the level of the word, through wording, to phase, text pattern and culture, act to constrain choices from both text-creating and reading perspectives.
Functionally, the low nM background DA may act to constrain changes in general excitability and prevent subsequent transient or phasic elevations of DA from enhancing network "noise".
