One man makes the final decisions, but his options are constrained by the competing interests of his colleagues.
It might be a glaring paradox to be sheltered by a government that suppresses freedom of the press and civil rights, but his options are constrained.
With Syria, it was almost a year before Kofi Annan was appointed a United Nations envoy, by which stage the situation was so violent and polarised his options were constrained.
Bashar's options are constrained by the report, the U.S. Administration and domestic concerns.
In the end, it doesn't matter whether a president's policy is motivated by trying to tame the atom, or tame the climate, the options are constrained and the requirements staggering.
However, in regions where human well-being is tightly linked with the cultivation of the floodplain (such as fisheries), management options are constrained and trade-offs among competing social, economic and ecological goals may be necessary for the wise use of wetlands.
Of course, your holiday options are constrained by what kind of person you are.
In a second intervention, testing options were constrained by unbundling serum metabolic panel tests into single components and reducing the ease of repeating targeted tests.
Even though there were few measurements from the upper third of the stem, the second option was preferred because relative height is constrained to be between 0 and 1.
