Sentence examples for constricting of from inspiring English sources

The closing and constricting of sidewalks, roadways and plazas diminishes the freedom that is being defended.

The reflexive widening or constricting of the pupils helps animals see in a wide range of lighting conditions by metering the amount of light that hits the retina.

The potential disruptive nature of the new generation of health and medical technologies and businesses may be bad news for legacy vendors and bloated incumbents — and it may lead to the constricting of the market as a whole, smaller valuations at lower prices.

Specifically, it has been suggested that the colour red initiates a focusing or constricting of the attentional spotlight that facilitates the processing of local features while, the colour blue has the opposite effect, encouraging 'big picture' or 'global' feature processing.

Because of the constricting nature of the adjoining Yellow Sea and the funnel shape of some of the inlets on the mainland, tidal ranges are especially high along the coast of China.

Artists of all stripes certainly drew inspiration from Bowie's knack for shapeshifting and flexing the constricts of gender.

Horowitz and colleagues [ 3] define avoidance as a constrict of ideas, denial of the event (both its meaning and its consequences) and emotional numbing, while intrusion includes unbidden thoughts and images, troubled dreams, repetitive behaviour and waves of feelings.

This experience has made her a sensitive guide to the awkward complexities of squeezing the crimes of the Holocaust into the constricting confines of the courthouse.

Knowing the in vivo structure of the Z-ring will contribute significantly to the molecular understanding of the scaffolding and constricting functions of the Z-ring.

It was Zapata, he wrote, who had freed "Mexican reality from the constricting schemes of liberalism, and the abuses of the conservatives and neoconservatives".

When they make decisions, a very small number of people are in the room, and it has a certain effect of constricting the range of alternatives being offered".