Taken together, they form the power to constrain and the power to contest.
If you understand that, then you will not be wrong about where privacy requires "constrain" and where power requires openness.
Why could I try to capture something of the truth only by inventing a construction of my own to constrain and falsify it?
In this way, Joseph's wife created a slightly crazy, but compelling, fiction herself that would shape, constrain and, in some ways, make her husband's career.
Institution, in political science, a set of formal rules (including constitutions), informal norms, or shared understandings that constrain and prescribe political actors' interactions with one another.
The letter then turns to the "fierce debate over media regulation" and argues that the two issues are linked because "together they create the impression that British authorities are seeking to constrain and control the work of the media".
But, beginning around the 1930s, in order to save lives and cities, the federal government built massive levees to constrain and control the river, effectively stopping it from doing what nature wants it to do.
This would not only be bad for privacy – as the industry's track-record makes clear – but more generally, vendor-dominated silos would constrain and limit the potential of the emerging technological landscape.
Everyone wants to give himself up to something that will define, constrain, and explain him — to be swept up into a fantasy that's narrower than the life he really lives.
While many wealthy countries have moved to constrain and tax smoking, the world, Mr. Bloomberg said, is still on a path toward a billion smoking-related deaths in this century.
If anything, the kind of democracy Egyptians have experienced — four rushed votes in two years, as well as legal maneuvers, back-room deals and shocking violence — has been a means to constrain and even undermine the revolution's goals.
