Sentence examples for acted as a constraint from inspiring English sources

The Israeli presence in Lebanon acted as a constraint against an escalation of tensions with Syria, as troops in the zone were exposed to retaliation from the Hezbollah.

At the present moment it is not possible to determine if allometric trajectories indeed evolved and populations actually reached their adaptive peaks along this ecological gradient or if allometry has acted as a constraint preventing populations from reaching their adaptive peaks.

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.

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.

Rather, the body can act as a constraint on cognition, and as a distributor for cognitive processing (see Section 3).

Rather, he places his hope in the shared moral concepts of the citizenry, which act as a constraint upon the choices of the sovereign.

If I am right, the profit-seeking interests of companies act as a constraint on those policy-makers and organizations that seek improved labor market outcomes for workers.

The advection diffusion equation along with the boundary conditions of the photobioreactor acts as a constraint in solving the kinetics equation.

The requirement that the mental and material outcomes of an actual occasion must match, i.e. be correlated, acts as a constraint on the way in which these outcomes are formed within the actual occasion (cf. Stapp 2006).

If China and everyone else on the planet decided tomorrow that they didn't want any more, there is no reason why that must act as a constraint on federal spending.