"constricting" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is becoming tighter or more restrictive in some way. For example, you might use the sentence, "The constricting rules of the university got in the way of our study group's plans."
Yet now Labour, too, talks of constricting benefits, a popular theme because it conjures up two demons: immigrants and welfare scroungers.
"One of the dangers is that emphasis on propriety and good can be constricting.
But the message behind those images is nothing new: in the music industry, sex sells, especially when you're a young woman, and preferably when shedding the constricting cocoon of child/teen stardom.
In a paper published in 1983, Mr Bernanke blamed the collapse of the banking system for constricting the supply of credit, which "helped convert the severe but not unprecedented downturn of 1929-30 into a protracted depression".The notion that financial crises are transmitted to the broader economy by the "bank-lending channel" has dominated subsequent policymaking.
On the frontier Constricting the pet supply Good for some Back in the game Jailhouse blues War hero and porker, RIP Labour pains ReprintsBut his biggest favour has been green, foldable and borrowed.
Yet Mr Chaney's results persist when the Arab states closest to Israel are excluded from his analysis (the results should change if a particular factor is independently constricting democracy within the excluded group).
On the frontier Constricting the pet supply Good for some Back in the game Jailhouse blues War hero and porker, RIP Labour pains ReprintsThree moderate Democrats make up the state's Washington delegation and have excelled in bringing home pork.
The world has since changed, and Democrats are furiously divided over how to ease inequality without constricting growth (see article).
