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    constraining


    1. Many are gradually approaching a critical crossroad in their lives when, exhausted by Evil‘s constraining influence over mind and will, such designs must eventually overcome their spiritual endurance


    2. the individual by confiscating his land, limiting his self-protection, directing his health care, and constraining the exercise of religious freedom


    3. For these individuals - psychopaths - social rules have no constraining force, and the idea of a common good is


    4. The primary goal of carbon reduction policy, therefore, is one of constraining carbon emissions while minimizing adverse affects on GDP growth


    5. This precious soul of mine, which is the work of thine own hands, and the purchase of thy Son’s blood, I commit into thy hands, to be sanctified by thy Spirit and grace, and wrought up into a conformity to thy holy will in every thing: Lord set up thy throne in my heart, write thy law there, shed abroad thy love there, and bring every thought within me into obedience to thee, to the commanding power of thy law, and the constraining power of thy love; Keep through thine own name that which I commit unto thee, keep it against that day when it shall be called for; let me be preserved blameless to the coming of thy glory, that I may then be presented faultless with exceeding joy


    6. This precious soul of mine, which is the work of thine own hands, and the purchase of thy Son�s blood, I commit into thy hands, to be sanctified by thy Spirit and grace, and wrought up into a conformity to thy holy will in every thing: Lord set up thy throne in my heart, write thy law there, shed abroad thy love there, and bring every thought within me into obedience to thee, to the commanding power of thy law, and the constraining power of thy love; Keep through thine own name that which I commit unto thee, keep it against that day when it shall be called for; let me be preserved blameless to the coming of thy glory, that I may then be presented faultless with exceeding joy


    7. mass sets in and becomes what is than point holding mass where the constraining of the object takes


    8. constraining their demands for answers


    9. This brief conversation seemed to temporarily liquefy the constraining superstructure of the situation, creating a brief window of opportunity


    10. too constraining to my way of doing things

    11. Yes, he said;--necessity, not geometrical, but another sort of necessity which lovers know, and which is far more convincing and constraining to the mass of mankind


    12. It will be clear enough then that in his ordinary dealings which give him a reputation for honesty he coerces his bad passions by an enforced virtue; not making them see that they are wrong, or taming them by reason, but by necessity and fear constraining them, and because he trembles for his possessions


    13. But, if they seek to glorify God, let them not lift heavenward their unclean hands! If they would serve their fellowmen, let them do it by making manifest the power and reality of conscience, in constraining them to penitential self-abasement! Wouldst thou have me to believe, O wise and pious friend, that a false show can be better—can be more for God's glory, or man's welfare—than God's own truth? Trust me, such men deceive themselves!”


    14. And, as he drew towards the close, a spirit as of prophecy had come upon him, constraining him to its purpose as mightily as the old prophets of Israel were constrained; only with this difference, that, whereas the Jewish seers had denounced judgments and ruin on their country, it was his mission to foretell a high and glorious destiny for the newly gathered people of the Lord


    15. I OPENED MY EYES in a hospital room, feeling the constraining pull of the IV line stuck in my arm


    16. SSFs provide the leverage of “just-in-the-money” options without the restrictions constraining “pattern day traders” and their account size


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    Synonyms for "constraining"

    confining constraining constrictive limiting restricting

    "constraining" definitions

    restricting the scope or freedom of action