Factors related to the decision include, familiarity, ambiguity, significance, complexity, accountability, and time and money constrains.
The Directors of the National Galleries in London and Edinburgh who are jointly trying to raise the money felt constrained to reply to a letter in the Guardian this week that questioned handing over so much dosh to the Duke of Sutherland.
There were several such periods of "good deflation" while the world was on the gold standard; with growth in the money supply constrained, prices were pushed down whenever the volume of output grew rapidly.
That means finding new money within constrained budgets.Mr Gates is grappling with the conundrum faced by many of his predecessors: the rising costs of military manpower and equipment, which strain even America's gargantuan $700 billion defence budget (almost as much as the defence spending of the rest of the world put together).
If money is constrained a slow but cheaper journey might be chosen over a fast but more expensive journey.
Update: It's obvious that many commenters don't get the distinction between the proposition that banks create money — which every economics textbook, mine included, says they do (that's what the money multiplier is all about) — and the proposition that their ability to create money is not constrained by the monetary base.
Even so, with national prices down 12.5% last year (according to the NAR), a difficult credit market and the disintegration of mortgage securitization, the supply of buyers and banks to lend them money has been constrained.
Comment: GOI Reticence 10. (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX made clear to Emboffs that the ongoing investigation into the money-laundering case constrained their ability to provide more information, as the lack of detail in their observations bears out.
With plenty of other demands on the state's money and Italian borrowing constrained by its euro membership, the country hoped private investors might be its salvation.
"I never really felt constrained by money," says Tony Tether, who led the agency from 2001 to 2009.
