Constrained in sentence

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It has not prosecuted the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai massacre, or constrained the terrorist forces that operate, with the complicity of the military establishment, on its territory.

With the nation-state law in place, however, their legal recourse will be severely constrained.

Without such cooperation, China’s ambitions would be constrained only by domestic factors, such as a faltering economy, rising social discontent, a worsening environmental crisis, or vicious politics.

With alternatives to the status quo constrained, it has become clear that Israel is in a long transitional period in which old ideas don’t work and a new approach is needed.

But it had political checks and balances that constrained even the military, and power changed hands on numerous occasions through increasingly fair and free elections.

Likewise, last July, he mooted the possibility that the United States might withdraw from the WTO if it constrained his ability to impose tariffs.

Or, if they exist at all, they appear to be constrained by dysfunctional political systems.

The precise mix of policies must of course vary by country; but without more thoughtful approaches than what was attempted in France, action to address climate change will be dangerously constrained.

And, in the case of rapidly developing economies like China, renewable-energy deployment is not replacing fossil fuels at all; instead, renewables are supplementing a constrained fuel supply to facilitate faster economic growth.

This did not work very well, because investment was constrained by deficient domestic aggregate demand relative to capacity.

But many developing countries are constrained by a lack of investment demand, not a shortage of domestic saving.

Unless they can upgrade their knowledge and skills – and, in some cases, move to a new industry or location – they face constrained economic opportunities.

The second conclusion to draw from an extremely tight US labor market is that, unlike earlier periods of low unemployment when domestic wage pressures were constrained by GVCs, today’s mounting wage inflation will be tempered by a smaller GVC offset.

Privatization advanced, nationalists were constrained, relations with our big Hungarian minority improved, the country stood with the West during the Kosovo war.

Though the US had disproportionate economic clout, its room for political and military maneuver was constrained by Soviet power.

We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection.

Eventually, even countries traditionally suspicious of “government by judges” – France being the classic case – accepted this model of constrained democracy.

Yet access to justice remains tightly constrained, courts are still controlled by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and lawyers involved in litigation against local state agencies remain highly vulnerable to retaliation by state and non-state actors.

In Europe, many influential leaders and citizens still view the marketplace as constrained by moral considerations, such as the need to alleviate economic suffering.

Technological diffusion can be constrained on both the demand and supply sides of the economy.

But it would make the world much more dangerous, as the unfolding strategic conflict between the US and China would no longer be constrained by shared economic interests.

One lesson than can be drawn from these data is the potential value of social media, which, despite being constrained in many countries during elections, remains a potent tool to facilitate youth political engagement.

If the supply of vital inputs is constrained or the climate destabilized, prices will rise sharply, industrial production and consumer spending will fall, and world economic growth will slow, perhaps sharply.

Moreover, the ability of the financial authorities to stimulate the economy is constrained by the unwillingness of the rest of the world to accumulate additional dollar reserves.

China would not have been able to pursue its phenomenally successful industrialization strategy if the country had been constrained by WTO-type rules during the 1980s and 1990s.

The austerity measures that many countries have adopted to reduce public deficits and debt are hampering fiscal policy, while near-zero policy rates in the largest developed economies have constrained their scope for monetary-policy maneuvering.

The bottom line is that Europeans should worry and talk less about the Euro exchange rate, and spend the time they save trying to address their real problems: low productivity, market rigidities, fiscal polices constrained by the Stability Pact, and bankrupt pension systems.

International capital markets were small and constrained by exchange controls, a minefield of regulations, and the lack of convertibility of even the major currencies.

And yet, given that the non-tradable sector is constrained by its reliance on domestic demand, recovery – if it comes – will depend on the tradable sector’s growth potential.

Chinese officials believe that RMB internationalization is a way for China to set its own agenda without being overly constrained by external conditions beyond its control.

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