He also promised leaders at a regional summit a "new day" of practical cooperation in place of former President George W. Bush's ideologically constricted policies.
O'Malley deserves particular credit for going far beyond the highly constricted gun-policy conversation.
Certainly Castro felt himself under permanent siege, in an ongoing state of war, and this inescapably constricted his policy choices.
What would be helpful would be to indicate what share of the increase in prices can't be explained by the supply of and demand for commodities.I still think it's telling that the recent surge in commodity prices began in July, when Chinese leaders reversed course on several growth-constricting policies, rather than in early September, when a new round of QE began to seem likely.
The craven language of scarcity that seeks to guide our aggression and constrict our immigration policies can be defused only when we understand that there are different priorities here and there.
If the United States economy does keep growing at a solid pace, and markets shake off the funk of the past few weeks, it will be clear that the Fed's monetary policy was not too constricting.
For the past decade, increasingly conservative Dutch politicians have been grumpily constricting their country's proven successful liberal drug policies, for entirely political reasons.
But the Interior Department's new report simply attempts to distract Americans from the feds' constricting approach to domestic oil and gas production, a policy which deprives the American economy of thousands of new jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars in gross domestic product.
Lacking trust in management, employees push for policies that are laboriously detailed, inflexible, and often administratively constricting.
Whereas Blankenship accuses environmentalists of "economic cleansing" in Appalachia, presumably the result of regulations constricting mining operations, Kennedy accuses coal companies of engaging in "a deliberate policy of buying and closing coal towns and paying the residents to leave.
