"thereby constraining" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe how a certain action (or lack thereof) limits or restricts another action or behavior. For example, "The government imposed limits on private spending, thereby constraining economic growth."
It adds: "The risk is that law and policy, alongside ethical and moral considerations, might lag behind thereby constraining the employment of cutting-edge technology".
This was Jain's way of downgrading élitist newspaper editors who might want to leave a mark on the paper, thereby constraining his ability to make business decisions.
In the United States, that means resolving the distressed mortgage debt that is weakening our financial system and reducing labor mobility, thereby constraining not only our growth but also our ability to grow.
These approaches cause heterogeneous dielectric stacks (or interfaces) and give rise to difficulty in controlling the film thickness, thereby constraining the scaling of gate dielectric thickness.
The concentration polarisation because of the selective hydrogen removal along the membrane length was found to become significant with increasing membrane permeability thereby constraining the reactor design.
Large deviations from physiologically benign growth range can divert resources from vital body functions and cause developmental defects, thereby constraining the welfare and productivity of animals.
In some samples, it is possible to use the compositions of the porphyroblasts to calculate the depth and temperature conditions at which they grew and thereby constrain the conditions at which deformation occurred.
Writers love to repeat the truism that they need to see what they write to know what they think; seeing what you shot betrays the extent to which what you think is produced, and thereby constrained, by its method of thought.
Policies capture the conditions under which services are offered or requested and thereby constrain the negotiation space.
It limits both bone and vascular components, and our model suggests that it thereby constrains stem cell number and position.
In his classic book Against Method Paul Feyerabend objected to a single prescriptive scientific method on the grounds that this would limit scientists' activities and thereby constrain progress (Feyerabend1975).
