This phrase is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which certain social pressures, laws or rules limit how people can act. For example: "Strict religious laws constrain behavior in this society."
He also has an intuitive understanding of the strong feelings that lie beneath the dusty decorum and constrained behavior before the language of sexual liberation and personal fulfillment (to say nothing of feminism) had entered the lexicon of the Western democracies.
However, the role of tradeoffs in constraining behavior of biomolecular systems is generally unclear.
Since norms are mainly seen as constraining behavior, some of the important differences between moral, social and legal norms, as well as differences between norms and conventions, have been blurred.
Furthermore, the establishment of rules constraining behavior that may increase the risk of litigation needs to take place on a hierarchical level "above" the one where such behavior is likely to occur, most likely on the level of the firm, rather than that of subsidiary organizational units, leading to centralization.
In the healthism model, the individual is blamed for health problems, and social pressures exist towards constrained behaviors of self-surveillance, which may eventually be transformed into unhealthy, harmful and even destructive behaviors [ 29, 30].
The projection method leads a constrained motion equation by considering constraint conditions that constrain system behavior including definitions of positional relationships between each part.
Congress wanted to ensure that, in responding to future bank failures, federal regulators would be more rigorous and politically accountable, and would not undermine the incentive of large, uninsured depositors to constrain risky behavior on the part of giant banks.
In the battle of the sexes, there are the formal rules -- the rich variety of variously heeded laws and customs by which each society tries to constrain reproductive behavior.
Mr. Bush's aides have spent eight years ridiculing arms control agreements as "old think" and denying any relationship between what America does with its own nuclear weapons and its obvious inability to constrain others' behavior.
He defines it — with all the flair we've come to expect from that journal — as a violation of the "notification norms" that "constrain the behavior of nodes in social networks".
