Sentence examples for try to constrain from inspiring English sources

A President can at least try to constrain freedoms, issue racist decrees, intimidate, coerce.

In Germany and France, governments have had to push through reforms to try to constrain spending.

If negotiations with Iran fail, he will have to convince Europe, Russia and China to impose tough sanctions to try to constrain Iran's nuclear ambitions.

The Bush administration's vision blends a real, if limited, internationalism with the reflexive conservative distrust of government, particularly one in which presumptuous foreigners try to constrain the United States.

It is also ironic — perhaps even bizarre — that while we try to constrain how much banks borrow through regulation, we give them strong incentives to borrow more through the tax code.

During Mr Bush's first week, the Israelis and Palestinians had talks in Taba, "the real purpose" of which, says Mr Ross, "was not to reach agreement, but on the Israeli side to try to constrain what Sharon could do and on the Palestinian side to try to get the Bush administration to buy into the Clinton ideas".

China, by trying to constrain this tendency, is only accelerating it.

China is in obvious danger, which is why its government has tried to constrain loans and property prices.

This article implies that some doctors, dripping with venality, will manipulate the system, trying to constrain their rogue behaviors.

Europe has learnt from its experience of trying to constrain emissions, and is getting better at it.

Rather than trying to constrain state spending – which at 56% of GDP is the highest in the EU after Denmark – he is increasing it.