"constrain possibilities" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the idea of limiting or reducing choices or options. For example: "The severe budget cuts constrained the possibilities for providing new educational resources."
The results of this study may contribute to the self-reflection of industrial actors on how the choice of resources and repertoires may afford and constrain possibilities for breaking the cultural patterns of selection to STEM education.
The tracer-specific complications considerably constrain possibilities for sound quantitative regional groundwater age distribution assessments and demonstrate the importance of initial qualitative assessment of tracer-specific reliability, as well a need for additional, complementary tracers (e.g. 85Kr, 39Ar and potentially also 14C).
Linguistic differences and lack of mutual recognition constrain possibilities for staff exchange and deployment.
Not every future is feasible: power, organizational, disciplinary, and political cultures, resources, and history all shape and constrain possibility.
Her point was that many activists who in the past would have gone into radical, non-sanctioned, community-based liberation organizations were now being brought into NGOs -- where they could make a decent salary and where their every move was framed by grant reporting -- long proposals, narrow goals, and constrained possibilities.
Constraining possibilities include the absence or presence of dispersal barriers in the introduced range; failure to model a limiting factor that applies in both ranges, but is more geographically limiting in one of the ranges; and an introduced range that is not at ecological equilibrium (spread still progressing).
The same, he said, goes for remix apps for smartphones and tablets, which vastly constrain the possibilities of what a remix might be: "Just looking around, I'm slightly horrified, because it's so minimal, the changes you can make: 'press this button for 'siren', 'press this button to change the backing beat to 'rock', it's so limited".
Based on my evidence, it appears that the identified mechanisms of processing market feedback tightly constrain the possibilities of updating strategic premises because of the avoidance or modulation of deviant feedback that severe organizational crises generate.
The MRM framework does not make any explicit assumptions with regard to the chemical identity of prebiotic replicators, but straightforward general principles constrain the possibilities to modular (and, consequently, digital) structures capable of unlimited heredity [ 5].
