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to constrain himself
verb
To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressurizing; to compel; to oblige.
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The author, thus, clearly did not want to constrain himself in terms of ideas and topics discussed, which is also evident from the many and broad aims of the book.
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Until this point, Dr. Lloyd had been constraining himself to a laptop with a volume of one liter.
Rather, I was shocked — that the director of "American Graffiti" could have constrained himself to create such a turgid, stilted, flat, and textureless movie.
Had Mr Eugenides constrained himself to the tale of a pseudohermaphrodite (genetically of one sex but with ambiguously developed genitals), his novel might at least have shed some light on the psychology of gender.
"What do you think?" I'd always felt that he had constrained himself too much to the local scene, that the rest of Nigeria could benefit from a taste of the valor he had to offer.
Mr Blunt said Gaddafi was allowed to "buy himself out of the sanctions regime" established to constrain the dictator, even though he was "certainly a supporter of terrorists".
"They want to constrain offense.
Continue to constrain it and they will go up.
He said it would be foolish to constrain beer sales.
We are able to constrain timescales and ages relatively accurately.
"We were having to constrain ourselves in significant ways.
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