Sentence examples for constrains rather than from inspiring English sources

Common sense constrains, rather than dictates, acceptable philosophical positions.

He called the idea an "illiberal measure that constrains rather than sustains Bristol" and wants to see it scrapped.

This conceptual object was introduced in the literature [7] to suggest that the CR design problem, from the decision making perspective, is better defined by a set of constrains rather than by a set of degrees of freedom.

SVMs are alternative training methods for multi-layer perception classifiers, in which the weight of the network is found by solving a quadratic programming problem with linear constrains, rather than by solving an unconstrained minimization problem in ANNs [26].

The conclusion is that capitalism must be constrained, rather than be allowed to operate unfettered.

Some authors leave little room for choice and contingency, while others frame their generalizations as loose trends that constrain rather than determine the course of events.

In order to position and strengthen its evidence base, nursing may well seek to distance itself from a qualitative perspective and utilise methods at the top of the HOE; yet given the relation of qualitative methods to nursing this would constrain rather than broaden the profession in search of answers and an evidence base.

As will be discussed below, when corridors are used as a means to manage conflicts between competing land uses with a strong focus on crop damage, corridor delineation and regulation can become primarily a means of constraining rather than enhancing mobility.

These 89 states -- 67 of them rated either not free or partly free in Freedom House's 2014 Freedom in the World report -- would form "cyberfiefdoms" that constrain rather than connect the world.

However, we discuss how TMS chronometry and fMRI EC are conceptually different and show how they can be complementary and mutually constraining, rather than contradictory, on the basis of our data.

Given that vascular connectivity is known to influence the elicitation and distribution of systemic defenses [18] and that JA biosynthetic enzymes are specifically localized in the vascular bundles in tomato leaves [57], we were surprised to find that N. attenuata's vasculature constrained, rather than propagated, the JA bursts from a point source elicitation within an elicited leaf.