Sentence examples for had constrained from inspiring English sources

The "collective Presidency," which spread power across the Standing Committee, had constrained Hu Jintao so thoroughly that he was nicknamed the Woman with Bound Feet.

The chief executive, Louis Gallois, said the dollar's decline had constrained sales growth last year and was likely to eat into profit this year.

Previous geological work on Fogo Island had constrained the timing of the slope failure to between a hundred and twenty-four thousand and sixtyearse thousago yeago ago.

He had argued more capital should have been put into the major banks and that the Treasury's refusal to put more cash into RBS and Lloyds had "constrained" options available to the FPC.

John Cruickshank, The Star's publisher, said there was "no truth whatever" to Watson's suggestion that the Star had constrained his reporting or "refused to publish a story of significant public interest".

The first round of Fed buying helped because the financial crisis had constrained the resources of traditional bond buyers, in effect creating a shortage of demand for mortgage bonds, forcing sellers to offer higher interest rates.

It has constrained almost every Arab government".

Hertzberg blames the filibuster and the Republicans, who he believes have constrained Obama.

Yet the quick-and-dirty series has constrained Lionsgate's reputation in the industry.

Perhaps that's why he wrote in prose; the pentameter would undoubtedly have constrained him.

This is how Germany and Switzerland have constrained the annual growth in health spending.