Sentence examples for serve as a constraint from inspiring English sources

She also finds strong evidence that rights provisions may indeed serve as a constraint on state repression, even when controlling for many other factors.

The difficulty is deciding which if any of the conflicting responses is fit to serve as a constraint on ethical theory, when both may equally be the function of more or less arbitrary cultural factors.

Philosophical discussion may establish that convictions of this sort should serve as a constraint on moral theory, while responses to thought experiments that empirical research determines to lack such solidity, such as those susceptible to framing effects or admitting of strong cultural variation, may be ones that ethical theorists can safely disregard.

The crucial points are (i) that the evidence implied is not a verified empirical statement \ e\) but the logical fact that \(h \wedge k\) entails \ e\), and (ii) that the existence of this connection of entailment was not to be obviously anticipated at all, precisely because \(h \wedge k\) and \ e\) are such that the latter did not serve as a constraint to specify the former.

Such an interpretation would be compatible with the idea that anxiety can serve as a constraint on social responsiveness (e.g. see Bielsky et al. 2005; Brodkin 2006).

Our observations are in keeping with similar observations by Grindle and Thomas [ 12], that contextual factors working in interrelating manner can serve as a constraint and an opportunity within which policy actors manoeuvre to accomplish their goals.

The fear of inflation also served as a constraint on price reform.

"Contrary to common misperception, the debt limit has never served as a constraint on future spending, nor would refusing to increase the debt limit reduce the obligations the country has incurred," he wrote in his letter.

It means that a second criterion serves as a constraint bounded by some allowable range of parameters ϵ.

The total power that can be allocated to the k th secondary user serves as a constraint and we have ∑ i = 1 N P k i ≤ P T (1).

According to this view, to improve on the weak naïve HD clause for confirmation one only has to rule out one particular class of cases, i.e., those in which the description of a known fact, \ e\), served as a constraint in the construction of \(h\wedge k\).