The phrase 'external constraints' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to factors that restrict your ability to do something or make a choice. For example, "My plans have been hindered by external constraints such as limited resources and time."
In his concluding comments he writes: "Economists have focused traditionally on releasing external constraints.
But alongside those external constraints, there is much to be done internally.
Academics don't let themselves be free, so pathologising external constraints amounts to somewhat of a double standard.
Like utilities, established financial institutions are facing external constraints on their pricing power, though not of the traditional form.
The Oulipo escapes the Romantic cul-de-sac of unfettered imagination (or its Surrealist avatar, chance) by reintroducing external constraints, which are self-imposed.
GOVERNMENTS like to cite external constraints—such as meeting the conditions for an international bail-out when pushing through unpopular policies.
Often these constraints are for good reasons (as are external constraints for that matter) but there's a huge amount of bad behaviour too, which if we only talked about it, we might well be able to do something about.
The raft of new policy ideas emanating from Brown's leadership campaign will be subject to precisely the same external constraints that left Tony Blair apologising for failing to meet expectations in his resignation speech last week.
This basic distrust of external constraints on individual autonomy naturally slid into a suspicion of the great and opaque forces of international trade — the crucial difference, according to István Hont, between Rousseau and Adam Smith.
Jia's symbolic art, like that of Howard Hawks and Ernst Lubitsch under the Hays Code, is ingeniously conceived to say exactly what's on his mind regardless of external constraints.
Furthermore, there are always external constraints on the range of options we can meaningfully try to undertake.
