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Some have said a 76-point agreement actually constrained the ability of the audience to interact with politicians in a more free-flowing debate.

Since the industrial revolution, the UK has contributed disproportionately to the excessive build up of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, and (for better or for worse) constrained the ability of the world's poorest countries to develop along similar lines.

These regulations significantly constrained the ability of non-accredited investors (those without significant income or net worth) to participate in the private capital markets, and completely banned the marketing of non-registered securities to the general public.

Our greatly increased worldwide counterterrorism efforts since September the 11th have constrained the ability of Al Qaida to attack the U.S. again and have led terrorist groups to view the homeland as a harder target to strike than it was on 9/11.

(The Dodd-Frank Act constrained the ability of the Fed to help individual financial institutions, but in my assessment left the door open to various kinds of broader assistance to classes of assets or groups of companies — either through the Fed discount window for lending to banks or through some mechanism to be specified later).

However, the absence of integrated biodiversity measurement and monitoring tools [2], [3] has constrained the ability of national and international organizations to respond to the biodiversity crisis.

"It will constrain the ability of pupils to specialise in areas of the curriculum they enjoy," he says.

This principle may constrain the ability of China to address more complex and diffuse sustainable development challenges in the future.

In fact, we find that US-style trade agreements are the most severe in constraining the ability of developing countries to deploy such policy.

By ignoring early warnings, withdrawing aid and constraining the ability of humanitarian organisations to operate in Somalia, western donors made famine more, not less likely.

But with a new ideological makeup, "a Supreme Court decision applying a narrower definition could constrain the ability of a future administration to broaden the definition," Gerrard said.