Sentence examples for attempt to constrain from inspiring English sources

The attempt to constrain scientific studies does not mitigate risk to the coast.

In that one short week, the new government did attempt to constrain some of the nationalist actors' demands.

Mr Clark's very mildness should not be allowed to distract from this new and unwelcome attempt to constrain local democracy, which exposes the hollowness of Mr Cameron's rhetoric.

Moral judgment about a product that satisfies the customer is seen to be bad form, an attempt to constrain a market – or an inheritance – that should ideally be, in every sense, unregulated.

But any attempt to constrain women's movements solely on the basis of gender not only feeds into the idea that violence against them is inevitable, instead of tackling it, but also ignores the very real threats they face at home.

On the legal question, which the report spends a single paragraph addressing, the administration states that Obama believes he has participated in the Libya operation in a way "consistent" with the War Powers Resolution, passed by Congress in 1973 in an attempt to constrain a president's war-making capabilities after the undeclared conflicts in Vietnam and Korea.

Some foreign attempts to constrain press freedom are more understandable than others.

"No majority leader in history has attempted to constrain Senate debate as aggressively as Senator Lott has attempted to do.

No majority leader in history has attempted to constrain Senate debate as aggressively as Senator Lott has chosen to do...

Russia, too, has worried about America's projection of unilateral power and has praised attempts to constrain it internationally.

Indian officials are increasingly dissatisfied with Pakistan's attempts to constrain Lashkar-i-Taiba and remain convinced that Pakistani intelligence supports the group.