"constrains the ability" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are trying to describe a situation in which something is limiting or restraining a person's ability to do something. For example, "The lack of funding constrains the ability of the organization to provide additional services."
Loans and grants from rich nations account for 10percentt of total economic activity, and a heavy debt burden constrains the ability of governments to put their fiscal houses in order.
Slower nominal growth constrains the ability of debtors to pay their bills, making a debt crisis more likely.In this section The war on Ebola Why Brazil needs change Build some bridges and roads, Mrs Merkel The great hole of China Farage against the machine ReprintsReasonable, but wrong.
This limited view constrains the ability to obtain a sufficiently geometrically descriptive surface for accurate surface-based registrations.
It also constrains the ability of regional fisheries management organisations (RFMOs) to ensure the long term sustainability of stocks.
Experimental verification of these predictions has not been similarly accelerated, and this measurement gap constrains the ability of materials engineers to produce bespoke materials meeting modern application demands.
Use of amoA metabarcoding and phylogenetic analysis allows greater ability to detect and characterize ammonia-oxidizing microbes, although the state of development of the DNA sequence archive at any point in time constrains the ability to relate amplification products to particular species.
"It will constrain the ability of pupils to specialise in areas of the curriculum they enjoy," he says.
Some have said a 76-point agreement actually constrained the ability of the audience to interact with politicians in a more free-flowing debate.
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.
The separation of powers and the checks and balances characteristic of democratic political systems constrain the ability of elected leaders to move their countries rashly toward war.
