However, practices do not develop or unfold in a vacuum they are enabled and constrained by practice architectures that prefigure, but do not predetermine, practices in a particular site (Kemmis and Grootenboer 2008).
Although General Musharraf theoretically has unlimited powers as a military ruler, he is constrained in practice by strong centers of support for Islamic militancy in the Pakistani officer corps and in the hard-line Islamic groups that have proliferated across the country in the last decade.
The swelling is inevitably constrained in practice, often leading to stress and fracture.
Sometimes the form is important because an author was constrained by practice or academic statute to use it, as with disputations and Sentences commentaries; hence, how an author comes to use or manipulate a given form for his own ends is a significant part of understanding the text.
Somewhat paradoxically, recognition of the value of qualitative methodologies in health services research [ 23- 27] parallels the evolution of research governance frameworks which have increasingly constrained their practice.
The range of values that it can take in simulations, however, is constrained in practice by the number of place cells used in the model.
Furthermore, analyses illustrated how the distinctive cultural discursive, material economic and social political arrangements enabled and constrained the practices of middle leading, and made particular sayings, doings and relatings possible.
As ably defined by Professor Larry Solum, originalism is a family of theories that are unified by their commitment to two core ideas: (1) the communicative content of any particular provision of the Constitution was fixed when that provision was framed and ratified; (2) that communicative content should constrain constitutional practice (in particular, constitutional adjudication).
Other theorists are more circumspect, urging that women subject to constraining practices should not be characterized as "compliant dupes of patriarchy" (Narayan 2002, 420) and that women living under oppressive regimes could autonomously accept their conditions (Christman 2004, 152; Westlund 2009, 29).
To understand their practices, the theory of practice architectures was used for illuminating what enabled and constrained the leading practices of middle leaders—i.e. the arrangements that figured and prefigured the practices.
We specifically draw on the theory of practice architectures to explore and understand the arrangements and conditions that enable and constrain the practices of these leaders in their work.
