Sentence examples for constricting democracy from inspiring English sources
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).
In testimony on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, John D. Negroponte, director of national intelligence, said Mr. Chávez "appears ready to use his control of the legislature and other institutions to continue to stifle the opposition, to reduce press freedom, and entrench himself through measures that are technically legal, but which nonetheless constrict democracy".
Among the principles for which the United States purports to stand is the "rule of law," but it is very handy to reserve the ability to reconstrue a word in a law that might otherwise be too constricting on a democracy- and rule-of-law-loving nation.
They'd be so constricting.
Butler, too, finds the term constricting.
It is avoiding crowds and areas that feel constricting.
Wear loose-fitting clothes to avoid constricting blood vessels.
Instead, a lot of other factors are constricting supply.
It's kind of constricting.
