Cross-strait relations are the stuff of debate and disagreement, but most Taiwanese see the deal as gaining the kind of "international space" which China has long sought to constrict.
North Carolina is the test case for the national anti-democracy forces who desperately seek to constrict the new, multi-cultural, southern electorate.
Realizing they represented a minority position, they passed a range of laws seeking to constrict voting rights, requiring photo IDs, limiting early voting, etc., Then they went after women's rights, environmental protections, and the poor while doing most of what the business lobby asked of them.
That resentment set the stage for enthusiastic support for a candidate who seeks to dismantle government and constrict the benefits going to public employees.
The craven language of scarcity that seeks to guide our aggression and constrict our immigration policies can be defused only when we understand that there are different priorities here and there.
From its press release, 25 Karat seeks to "provide its participants with tools to become more visible on their own terms, without forcing this professionalization to be constricting or conforming..
Through employing a human rights perspective, the paper seeks to open a dialogue to rethink drug policies in a more thoroughgoing and potentially radical way, so that a more fully public health approach to the issue of the therapeutic use of cannabis can be developed which is not constricted by the drug prohibition paradigm.
Danny, with his growing union sympathies, is pitted against his ambitious, constricted lawyer brother; both are seeking to marry the family's Irish maid, who hides a dark secret.
Regarding snakes, last year U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., introduced a good bill, H.R. 511, seeking to ban trade in Burmese pythons, green anacondas, and seven other species of constricting snakes that are imported and traded for purchase as exotic pets.
