Sentence examples for were constraining from inspiring English sources

Men felt the old models of machismo were constraining, not empowering.

It continued, "Many reports indicated that geopolitical and economic uncertainties were constraining consumer and business spending and tempering near-term expectations".

He wrote that federal authorities were "constraining" critical terrorism investigations in New York and said the federal government "is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to protect New York City," concluding that "the city is less safe as a result".

Testing the strategic management framework in a pilot sample in Malaysia showed that vulnerability, market uncertainty, rapid technological change and development, and lack of resources, especially human resources, were constraining the growth and development of these software firms.

While these accounting and accountability changes were constraining on certain field participants they were also productive in that the new flows of accounting information created new opportunities within the field for certain field participants.

As I saw it, we were constraining ourselves with seating capacity, size of tasting menus, all-inclusive menu price before state sales tax, hours of operation, length of dining times, days of operation, historical tendencies of our guests learned from being in business for seven years, etc.

Customers were constrained.

Wages councils were constrained.

These women were constrained only by their corsets.

Certainly, Champlain's founding ideas — like Jefferson's — were constrained.

"Before, the police were constrained by targets.