(a.) Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
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.
Unconstrained
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A method is presented for testing the equality of some or all (constrained or unconstrained) optima in a response surface analysis.
(2) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
(3) Many tasks (e.g., solving algebraic equations and running errands) require the execution of several component processes in an unconstrained order.
(4) The tetracaine-sensitive component of charge was well fitted with an unconstrained Boltzmann distribution which gave: Qmax = 7.5 nC microF-1, V = -46.5 mV, k = 5.5 mV.
(5) We observe that the effect of osmotic shock is an elevation of superhelical tension; quantitative comparison with changes in plasmid linking number indicates that the alteration in DNA topology is all unconstrained.
(6) These results emphasise that in order to obtain accurate flexibility results for isolated loads, the foot must be unconstrained by the loading apparatus.
(7) Advantages of the design include: congruity of the articulating surfaces; unconstrained tibiofemoral movement; preservation of all the ligaments with facility to tension them accurately from a range of bearing thicknesses; minimal bone excision; applicability to unicondylar use.
(8) The "blue" in "Blue Labour" comes from a conservative conviction that market forces, unconstrained, play havoc with the fabric of people's lives.
(9) An analysis of 93 unconstrained totalcondylar knee prostheses showed good to excellent results.
(10) However, we cannot rule out the possibility that unconstrained supercoils exist in addition to these constrained supercoils in the transcription complex in the cell.
(11) The sizing and dimensioning of a new unconstrained elbow prosthesis makes use of a geometric axis for humeral articulating surface definition, an axis which is precisely positioned with respect to extra-articular anatomical landmarks.
(12) In contrast, the prevalence of infection in dogs was not abnormally high, although the canine population was large and unconstrained compared to that in industrial countries.
(13) Thirty-three patients had thirty-four consecutive primary arthroplasties, with use of the Souter-Strathclyde cemented unconstrained prosthesis, for severe rheumatoid arthritis of the elbow.
(14) One of several characteristics of this transformation that indicates its adaptational nature is its gradual reversibility under conditions of unconstrained growth.
(15) Comparison of the analog structure with that of the Clostridium pasteurianum rubredoxin active site shows that the former is substantially less distorted from idealized tetrahedral symmetry, and is considered to represent an essentially unconstrained structural model of the latter.
(16) Estimates obtained by this method for myoglobin, lysozyme, lactate dehydrogenase, papain, and ribonuclease are not substantively different from those obtained using unconstrained linear least squares.
(17) The transit time spectrum, measured by differentiation of the computed retention function, was found to be of no practical value with use of the unconstrained matrix method.
(18) Using this approach, early and late stability allows the use of unconstrained knee implants, including those with mobile-bearing elements.
(19) Many institutions, especially in London, went flat out for overseas students whose fees were unconstrained.
(20) This study was designed to test the ability of the ligaments to restore rotational stability to the knee after rotationally unconstrained anterior cruciate-sacrificing total knee arthroplasty (TKA).