(v. t.) To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.
(v. t.) To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.
(v. t.) To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.
(v. t.) To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.
(v. t.) To violate; to ravish.
(v. t.) To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paul Johnson, the IFS director, said: “Osborne’s new fiscal charter is much more constraining than his previous fiscal rules.
(2) The parameters of the multiplet signal are consistent with the presence of a sterically constrained tyrosine phenoxyl radical.
(3) The variations in behavior and physiology across the year were considered in terms of factors constraining the timing of the natural reproductive pattern.
(4) First, chains are constrained by their inability to penetrate the boundary.
(5) The prepro form of ET-1 was inactive, suggesting that mature ET peptides are constrained in an inactive conformation within the preproET species.
(6) A method is presented for testing the equality of some or all (constrained or unconstrained) optima in a response surface analysis.
(7) The genius of a democracy governed by the rule of law, our democracy, is that it both empowers the majority through the ballot box, and constrains the majority, its government, so that it is bound by law.” Turnbull added: “Why does Daesh [another term for Islamic State] hate us?
(8) Often, a single, constrained peptide analogue can be designed, which will have many of the desired biological and biophysical properties, and will serve as a template.
(9) Because the rigor of the present day "scientific method" demands clearcut and reproducible results and investigations require predictable performance of the parasite in an evenly maintained host that is in a highly constrained environment, we should not wonder why we cannot produce the events of nature.
(10) In the first stage, the constrained random ordering of the stimuli is generated as specified by the user.
(11) Intrauterine influences which retard fetal weight gain may irrecoverably constrain the growth of the airways.
(12) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
(13) If correctional institutions constrain inmates' access to social benefits, means exist to protect incarcerated people's rights in health studies.
(14) Her ability to estimate time intervals and general time perspective was constrained by her impoverished store of knowledge for personal experiences.
(15) The immobilization successfully constrained the anteroinferior displacement of the maxilla and zygomatic bone on the fused side.
(16) In a previous study of push-off without plantar flexion it was shown that the transformation of knee angular velocity into translation of the body is constrained by the fact that velocity difference between hip and ankle has to reach its peak value a long time before the knee is extended.
(17) As there is no evidence for a close evolutionary link between kinesin and myosin, these and other similarities may represent convergence to set of common functional properties which are constrained by the requirements of protein structure and the use of ATP hydrolysis as a source of energy.
(18) By lengthening the ventricular effective refractory period, trains of conditioning stimuli could prevent or terminate tachycardias, but this possibility is constrained, at present, by the spatial limitations of the technique.
(19) The data suggest that the biological effects of RA may be constrained or augmented by differential regulation of its own receptor gene expression.
(20) A biological process serves as a source and its products are subject t] local dispersive fluid forces constrained by chaotic streamlines.
Enforce
Definition:
(v. t.) To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.
(v. t.) To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage.
(v. t.) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
(v. t.) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.
(v. t.) To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.
(v. t.) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
(v. i.) To attempt by force.
(v. i.) To prove; to evince.
(v. i.) To strengthen; to grow strong.
(n.) Force; strength; power.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(2) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
(3) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
(4) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
(5) The plan was to provide those survivors with escape routes while also giving law enforcement an entry point.
(6) Cabrera, wearing a bulletproof vest, was paraded before the news media in what has become a common practice for law enforcement authorities following major arrests.
(7) The American paper claimed Mr Jameel's company was one of a number of organisations being monitored at the request of law enforcement agencies, to prevent funds being channelled to terrorist organisations, a claim that turned out to be untrue.
(8) After sterilisation of mentally diseased patients had been legally enforced and finances were restricted, family care stagnated, promoting instead a type of family care that was independent of psychiatric hospitals and was carried out on a "district" basis.
(9) If Navalny is guilty of breaching Russian law, there are law enforcement agencies that can and should prevent crime,” he says.
(10) Under the auspices of the US-USSR agreement for cooperative research in environmental health, Soviet methods for setting and enforcing standards for environmental pollutants were observed.
(11) The extra enforcement produced increases in the use of seat belts by drivers during the four months of the heightened enforcement.
(12) What is needed is decisive action, and a clear and unequivocal policy on maintaining and fully enforcing UN sanctions against the Eritrean regime.
(13) Its investigations have also resulted in 107 officials in the law enforcement agencies being convicted.
(14) Once again, there was no evidence of any law enforcement presence on or near the refuge.
(15) It has to come from a variety of different enforcement actions, and then the company needs to do the right thing,” she said.
(16) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
(17) "Some have problems in enforcing their transfer pricing regimes due to gaps in the law, weak or no regulations and guidelines for companies, and limited technical capacity to carry out transfer pricing risk assessment and transfer pricing audits, and to negotiate transfer pricing adjustments with multinational companies."
(18) Short-range ammunition was developed for use by law enforcement personnel in congested, enclosed areas and primarily as a hijacking deterrent in commercial airliners.
(19) This brief outline of optical identification potentials alerts law enforcement agencies to the early developments in the field.
(20) It would have been known as the Office of Congressional Complaint Review, and the rule change would have required that “any matter that may involve a violation of criminal law must be referred to the Committee on Ethics for potential referral to law enforcement agencies after an affirmative vote by the members”, according to the office of Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia who pushed for the change.