Sentence examples for as a constraint on from inspiring English sources

Risk management was regarded as a "constraint on the business rather than integral to it".

The fear of inflation also served as a constraint on price reform.

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.

Professor Sundaram says that rather than acting as a constraint on companies, a warming planet could be a huge business opportunity: "The implications are enormous.

Far from being cabals of ambitious malcontents, parties constituted a means by which men of honour might act in concert for the public good, not least as a constraint on royal whim.

The chief executive of the Australian Industry Group, Innes Willox, said, "To date the safeguard has been designed to catch 'rogue emitters', not as a constraint on ordinary business activities.

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.

With manufacturers taken by surprise by the referendum result, the CBI said the number of firms citing uncertainty about economic and political conditions abroad as a constraint on exports was at its highest since 1983.

It's clear that he regarded their marriage as a constraint on his own freedom, and it's also possible to see Roos, through his eyes, as a passive-aggressive worrier.

Dig deeper: Around the world, land has returned as a constraint on growth (April 2015) India's government tries to accelerate the pace of reform (January 2015) A new law may do little to break India's land-acquisition logjam (September 2013).

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.