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The picture's frame constrains him.
But his role as chairman of the budget committee constrains him.
Belonging to the second most important political force constrains him to a tamed version of himself.
Instead of dealing with election as a political phenomenon worth tearing apart to see what's wrong with our democracy, in service to their conservative media masters, they are set upon forcing the President into a box that constrains him to compromise, to make nice with business, to fail to acknowledge his base's concerns.
Gardner's theoretical position constrains him to view this body of work as muddling proximate and ultimate causation, as from his standpoint social norms (for instance, to reward cooperators or punish defectors) can only be proximate causes.
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Other people's rules constrained him.
The Constitution constrained him from candor.
Kim Il Sung of N. Korea to attack, rather than constrain him.
Perhaps that's why he wrote in prose; the pentameter would undoubtedly have constrained him.
No hardliners in his ruling coalition would constrain him, he vowed.
The House Republican leaders tell their dubious members that they are supporting Obama only in order to "constrain" him.
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