Sentence examples for have been constricted from inspiring English sources

The Mississippi and other rivers that once washed over wetlands, replenishing them with sediment, have been constricted by levees, starving marshes of their main building material.

It is also acknowledged that approximately 40percentt of the people in Northern Ireland are not British, and are culturally Irish; that they want unification in an Irish government, and that their rights have been constricted under the present government.

However, she pointed out that her day-to-day duties have been constricted by her status as a defendant.

The vast majority of Russians get their information from television, and most independent channels have been constricted or relegated to online-only formats.

In addition, the pipeline for new homes has been constricted.

For days, street after street has been constricted by the rock-like crusts, embedding cars and impeding foot traffic.

Perhaps because the Latino political turf had been constricted for so long, it was marked by bitter infighting.

This year's Id al-Fitr has been constricted by the 17-month war, which shows no sign of ending.

But the player evaluation process that usually begins just after the April draft has been constricted to a few weeks.

Until Thursday, the riser had been constricted somewhat by bends, much like kinks in a garden hose.

Objective: This study was undertaken to determine whether adrenomedullin, a hypotensive peptide, decreases vasomotor tone in fetoplacental vasculature that has been constricted with the thromboxane sympathomimetic U46619.