In part, Nelson may have been constrained by the nature of Daisy, the film's heroine.
Her struggle unleashed forces — anger, amorality, sexuality — that, earlier, had been constrained by the moral code of "goodness".
But research in this area has been constrained by the need for a safe testing environment; subjects cannot be given alcohol and sent into heavy traffic.
President Zardari, in addition to his considerable personal failings, has been constrained by the role of the military in national life.
But they have been constrained by the so-called peace lines that have marked turf from earlier stages of the 30-year conflict.
Mr. Langdale declined to disclose how much has been raised, saying fund-raising is "going well" but has been constrained by the economy.
In the last few years, consumers and household budgets have been constrained by the housing crisis, a weak job market and, most recently, high energy prices.
A1 LONG-DISTANCE OPERATIONS American air operations have been constrained by the sheer distances involved in striking targets in a landlocked country whose neighbors do not afford the United States basing rights.
Lending growth would have been constrained by the need to build up capital buffers, which would have been available to absorb losses at the onset of the economic downturn".
I frequently found myself wishing that the dialogue and the diction were as stylized as the costumes and the sets, or that the actors had been constrained by the emphatic theatricality of silence.
For then they would have been constrained by the fact that "The phrase 'uses a gun' fairly connoted uses of a gun for what guns are normally used for, that is, as a weapon".
