'constrains' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb meaning "to limit or restrict something." For example: The large capacity of the stadium constrains the movements of the fans during the game.
Although one can readily agree that high-yielding government investments in education and infrastructure are especially justified today, the idea that demand permanently constrains supply in a significant way is dubious.
It also constrains American policy.
Her "Camata law" constrains payroll costs at all levels of government, and she co-wrote Brazil's child-welfare law.
"That consumers can switch to substitute search engines instantaneously and at zero cost constrains Google's ability and incentive to act anti-competitively," wrote the late Robert Bork, a conservative judge, in a 2012 paper commissioned by Google that he wrote with Gregory Sidak, an antitrust expert.
The Iranians claim that this is entirely in line with what they describe (inaccurately) as their "right to enrich" for civil nuclear purposes under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty NPTT).America has tacitly admitted that Iran will have to be left with some enrichment capability as the price for a deal that otherwise constrains its nuclear programme.
The debt ceiling constrains public investment, but the government also brags about how fast it is reducing its deficit.
The central government collects revenues equivalent to a mere 14% of GDP, which greatly constrains its policy options.
First, a banking crisis, even if today it is a hidden one, already carries great costs for the real economy; by providing capital only for the undeserving, it greatly constrains China's potential for growth and job-creation.
And the debt ceiling constrains public investment at both federal and local level.
Similarly, Mr McKenzie's complaint that the current proceedings are unfair to Microsoft ignores the established principle that a dominant firm has special obligations: it is only a superficial paradox of antitrust that it constrains the winners in the competition that it promotes.How great an overhaul does Mr McKenzie think antitrust needs?
Not surprisingly, it gives the army special privileges and constrains Turkey's political parties for instance, by making it easy for the courts to ban a party and by setting a 10% threshold before a party wins parliamentary seats.A complete constitutional rewrite ought to be a bipartisan affair in which government and opposition work together.
