This has an enormously constraining effect on evolution.

Is it worth constraining the law in this way, in that case?

In other words, we're constraining Sprinkler and Rain to always be positive.

The lack of involvement of men and boys is an additional constraining factor.

A vicious downward spiral followed, with mounting indebtedness further constraining investment, diversification and income growth.

Transparency could help allay suspicion and thus remove some of the factors constraining international cooperation.

The constraining influence of these factors on the sustainable development of island countries cannot be underestimated.

Together, these treaties will have the effect of constraining and preventing a future nuclear arms race.

The issue of external debt is primary in its constraining effects on economic growth in Africa.

The label created a self imposed restriction, constraining Nestlé to sell a relatively narrow range of products.

The only constraining factor in the Labour Relations Act is that race exclusive unions are not allowed.

43. The problems constraining the development of air freight are both supply side and demand side factors.

Such a requirement would impose costs on universal banks by constraining their ability to transfer capital within the group.

But this also will require successful political modernization, which means nothing less than constraining the power of the center.

In many countries, inadequate local water availability is increasingly constraining decisions about where to set up new manufacturing facilities and energy plants.

In addition, investment related information, particularly on financial and economic costs and benefits, remains extremely limited, thus further constraining environment related investment.

Government authorities at the national and local levels have increasingly been harassing humanitarian organizations and thus constraining the provision of humanitarian assistance.

Societies advance by selecting and perpetuating positive, human aspects of their culture while leaving behind discriminatory and constraining elements (Government of Vanuatu, 1997).

This proved impossible owing to a number of constraining factors, including delays in adopting the legislation required and in delineating formal district boundaries.

At a time when humanitarian assistance has to rely increasingly on air operations, funding gaps risk constraining the delivery of life saving assistance.

We know that our doctors and nurses and even social workers aren't enough, that the ticking minutes of health care are too constraining.

In fact, excessively constraining rules of origin have proved problematic for some of the EU s previous recognition agreements, such as those governing professional services standards.

78. Even within these very constraining circumstances, some real and encouraging successes were achieved thanks to the untiring and courageous efforts of the humanitarian agencies.

As part of its poverty reduction campaign, the department has taken steps to make the work of women in the mines more visible and less constraining.

The Committee recognizes that these factors, combined with the problems of poverty, have had a constraining influence on the implementation of the provisions of the Convention.

Pro cyclical fiscal adjustment tends to encourage a short term orientation towards economic policy, which limits long term investments in infrastructure and human capital, thus constraining growth.

Another issue constraining nuclear disarmament is Russia s view that, without nuclear weapons, its military capabilities would be no match for the conventional forces of the US and NATO.

But the last election in the US ushered in a Democratic congressional majority that is indebted to trade fearing unions, thus constraining the pro trade President Barack Obama.

For 25 years, the so called Washington Consensus comprising measures aimed at expanding the role of markets and constraining the role of the state has dominated economic development policy.

Constraining demand even more is the fact that businesses in poor countries only need IT when they have educated workforces, which most poor country firms neither have nor need.

The rights of indigenous peoples must be considered in the context of democratic principles and international conventions on decolonization, as opposed to the constraining framework of imposed colonial structures.

Often it is the constraining or the back to the wall situation that the hapless common man finds himself or herself in that leads him to pay a bribe.

Or the company may have agreed not to take any further loans while any part of the present one remains unpaid (constraining the company's freedom to structure its finances).

Apart from the economic gain for Europe s economies, low oil prices yield important strategic benefits particularly with respect to constraining Russian President Vladimir Putin s revisionist ambitions in Ukraine and elsewhere.

International regimes may also pose problems for renewable energy through the imposition of administrative burdens, or by forbidding or constraining the use or transport of some elements of renewable energy.

That should be done by constraining military activities the more closely knit the system of rules became, the more difficult it would be to embark on aggression without violating obligations.

quot The special constraining instructions regarding firing on Jews in the event of disturbances were required also by the objective circumstances in Judea and Samaria Arabs are forbidden to carry arms.

Targeted goals have been established, but the constraining factor for us and I believe this applies to many of us in the developing world is a shortage of financial and technical resources.

What is needed, though, is a collective agreement on fiscal discipline, and a revival of the Stability and Growth Pact, which was unwisely abandoned ironically when the French and Germans found its rules too constraining.

Concerns about the impact of income inequality are already constraining fiscal and monetary policy in developed and developing countries alike as they attempt to extricate themselves from the hyper stimulative policies adopted during the financial crisis.

Indeed, some argue that the inventiveness and internationalism of a world networked by interests and shared causes is likely to be more resilient than one crammed into the artificial and increasingly constraining box of the national state.

The report also provides some insight into the constraints under which the compliance measures are being implemented, the key ones being limits on the state budget and the obscene racial disparities in resources including income, human development, distribution of land and other forms of capital or resources. Poverty and decease are also major constraining factors.

The last election freed India s Congress Party of its coalition with the Communists, who opposed trade, and thus increased the flexibility of pro trade Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. But the last election in the US ushered in a Democratic congressional majority that is indebted to trade fearing unions, thus constraining the pro trade President Barack Obama.