SCOTUS punted in constraining the very general right to keep and bear arms to simply self-defense purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Clinton staff: “We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns.” Kagan wrote the Clinton ban on gun imports.] Reference

Living in a parliamentary system as I do, the idea of constraining political lives seems a little odd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Make Obama’s Third Term Possible”:] Reference

I just won ` t be buying the next two books unless they follow those pesky "constraining" "adventure fiction" staples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robot reviews: LoEG Century: 1910 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference

Little bit E&D pressure in the back half of the year at Pratt, which is also I think kind of constraining our guidance there.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

He loses not a moment in 'constraining' His disciples to go away to the other side, as if in haste to remove the last hindrance to something that He had been longing to get to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke] Reference

With constraining pathos Dido implores him not to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Growth of English Drama] Reference

This constraining love was the very heart of His Gospel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Missions in Action] Reference

  Many panelists warned against constraining how TDFs invest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Set It and Regret It? Target-date funds in the crosshairs] Reference

"Good-evening," she said, constraining herself to be pleasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sara, a Princess] Reference

We can overcome the government policies currently constraining us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Unhappy Labor Day] Reference

And most of it dealt with constraining regulation, not growing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2008] Reference

"The EU shouldn't be an institution that is constraining us," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hungary Does Without EU and IMF] Reference

He pushed himself out of the chair as the constraining force was removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alarm Clock] Reference

For a writer or an artist, such a view must be constraining, and invigorating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mixed Media] Reference

Winthrop with the profoundest confidence, and even with a constraining sympathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference

This despite laws constraining the military from engaging in U.S. law enforcement.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2005] Reference

So I don't think there's anything constraining about the mechanism that's being created.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2003] Reference

SHEINKOPF: Hey, he's got a conference of Democrats to lead, and that's constraining him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2006] Reference

What's not true is the assumption that the IFIs are really about constraining social spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Todd Moss: Are the MDGs Useful for Africa?] Reference

They say high unemployment is constraining household spending, housing is depressed, bank lending continues to contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worried About Recovery, Fed To Buy U.S. Debt] Reference

But the constraining look with which his attempt to open the gate was received by that prudent functionary, checked him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference

But constraining herself, she added as civilly as possible, "Did you wish to send a message, or speak to any one on the wire?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference

"Yes, I do care," she answered, not very willingly, but compelled to truthfulness by her own conscience and his constraining gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

Craig Mathias, of the Farpoint Group mobile consultancy, thinks limits will create a "psychology of scarcity," constraining data use.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s the impact of carriers' new 'capped' wireless data plans on corporate networks?] Reference

As a consequence, the success of the current design and configuration of our forces may ironically become self-limiting and constraining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance] Reference

Whence this constraining power within me, exerting itself to the uttermost to win my allegiance to the right, unless I am free to obey or disobey?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference

Such a man as Foster would never have come forward in this way had he not had powerful and all-constraining motives to lead him to take such a step.    From Wordnik.com.  [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference

China's government is also trying hard to meet energy efficiency goals set for the 2006-10 period, which is constraining some heavy industry activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Comes Down Slowly] Reference

For smaller commercial banks and public sector banks (government-owned banks popular in Europe), the credit-constraining effects of Basel III are a serious problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Brown: Basel III -- Tightening the Noose on Credit] Reference

When you bend to prayer, often and often you will have to kneel with wandering thoughts, and constraining lips to repeat words into which your heart scarcely enters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference

Oswald's tactful delving unearthed no coercive "find" of restraining or constraining parental influence designedly swaying Esther's choice toward any fixed social status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

The problem with Iranian nuclear capability -- not just weapons, but capability -- is that it might begin constraining Israel's currently unconstrained "freedom of action.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett: The Weak Case for War With Iran] Reference