The phrase "past constraints" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to limitations or restrictions that existed in the past.
Example: "The team was able to innovate freely after overcoming the past constraints that had held them back."
Alternatives: "previous limitations" or "former restrictions."
When inferring the past constraints on the primary production by diatoms in the ice-marginal lakes, we concluded that the subglacial weathering of silicate and aluminosilicate minerals supplied significant levels of minerals, nitrogen, and relic carbon to subglacial meltwaters (e.g., Hutchins and Bruland 1998).
They must be able to move readily and rapidly between the past (constraints of culture and legacy systems) and the future (the limitless world of digital possibility).
The ability to generate large amounts of genomic data at ever decreasing costs through next-generation sequencing approaches makes it feasible for investigators to move past constraints on genomic information in the early stages of a research project; thus, enabling them to conduct more effective molecular studies in non-model groups.
The subjects encompassed in that time include authoritarian governments, the challenge to liberalism raised by Islam and the corrosive combination of the Bush administration's bungled foreign policy and Europe's unthinking anti-Americanism.But Mr Garton Ash's silver nib wiggles past those constraints.
With the development of human civilization, past environmental constraints differed compared to today.
The examples in the text here show that some cases of ordinary interaction will likely slip past these constraints.
In the past, external constraints limited our ability to consume fat and to metabolically produce fat from excess energy intake.
Instead, he says, "they have to bridge past the constraints set by their advisers to look at the offerings of colleges of engineering and of business, which have a good mode of thinking to guide students in the right direction".
And when women push past those constraints, somehow still determined to pursue their interest despite countless subliminal messages along the way, they eventually enter the workforce, only to face the lack of female leadership and mentorship.
In the past, one constraint was how high a wall people would tolerate outside their doorsteps, but urban redevelopment could create space for bigger defenses.
Or has Solondz found a way past the traditional constraints of restraint, respect and correctness, breaking through into a new realm of post-modern empathy?
