| 单词 | constraint |
| 释义 | constraint (kənstreɪnt ) Word forms: constraints 1. countable noun [oft adjective NOUN] A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do. Their decision to abandon the trip was made because of financial constraints. Water shortages in the area will be the main constraint on development. Synonyms: restriction, limitation, curb, rein 2. uncountable noun Constraint is control over the way you behave which prevents you from doing what you want to do. Collocations: budgetary constraints Owing to budgetary constraints, the Government has to rely on monetary policy to maintain demand. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The film is sometimes too claustrophobic for the big screen - presumably a result of budgetary constraints. Times, Sunday Times (2009) The parade has already been scaled back to allow for budgetary constraints resulting from the economic crisis. Times, Sunday Times (2013) That means that there are no capital constraints on the adoption of its technology, while nearly all revenues are recurring. Times, Sunday Times Furthermore, working capital constraints, exacerbated by the contraction of bank lending, are likely to force more companies to raise capital. Times, Sunday Times Broadly speaking market-making arbitrageurs can hold net long positions and as a result capital constraints are more likely to be hit during market downturns. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Properties are considered value added when they exhibit management or operational problems, require physical improvement, and/or suffer from capital constraints. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At the same time, capital constraints are requiring organizations to rethink data center strategy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Additionally, credit constraints limit homeownership for people with low income. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Import constraints limit the availability of many agricultural and food processing inputs for poultry and other sectors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although more school texts and general magazines are being printed, poor distribution systems and budgetary constraints limit their availability throughout the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In fact, very real resource constraints limit the ability of public housing families to abandon existing support networks, and these constraints limit the attractiveness of dispersal strategies to poor families. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Cost constraints meant that few of these proposals were ever implemented. Times, Sunday Times However, clients, often driven by cost constraints, are asking for payment by results. Times, Sunday Times However, cost constraints mean the number of ships that could be afforded was reduced from 12 to six, with each warship costing 1bn. Times, Sunday Times However, cost constraints have meant that it will focus initially on full-time judges and tribunal members. Times, Sunday Times On a more serious note, the ailing film festival almost fell off the international map last year, thanks to cost constraints, a poor programme, and screenings in dreary lecture halls. Times, Sunday Times This sort of protection, however, can not be applied to legacy code, and often technical, business, or cultural constraints call for a vulnerable language. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He finds no evidence either of institutional or cultural constraints against war; indeed, there was popular sentiment in favor of war on both sides. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Within the moral and cultural constraints of our society, we should be tolerant of those who may be different from most of us. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They want to water down the design code which forces them to use local materials and adhere to design constraints for the houses. Times, Sunday Times On the site there were severe design constraints. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition, the flexibility of the battery makes it more adaptable to different design constraints, such as curved devices. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Systems designers are often interested in selecting the most effective architecture or design constraints for a system, which drive its final performance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By increasing the bandwidth of the sampled signal, design constraints for the anti-aliasing filter may be relaxed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Moreover, economic constraints on young people, notably the cost of housing and commuting, are putting pressure on their disposable incomes. Times,Sunday Times He understood the economic constraints within which publishers had to work. Times, Sunday Times The economic constraints were always going to be huge, even before the current crisis. Times, Sunday Times In times of economic constraints, policymakers may wonder at the utility of such research. Times, Sunday Times They see new technologies developing in areas such as urban farming that can change some of the region's traditional economic constraints. Times, Sunday Times Added to that were the environmental constraints for a city that boasts of being the green capital of the world. Times, Sunday Times Tougher environmental constraints apply from 2016, and further closures of coal-fired plant may well then occur. Times, Sunday Times The similarities between the two species presumably arose because of the same strong environmental constraints on breeding behaviour. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In oil reservoirs, such environmental constraints permit the establishment of criteria to assess and compare the suitability of various microorganisms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If a process appears profitable, then other factors are considered, such as safety, environmental constraints, controllability, etc. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each one points to the tension between military advantage and ethical constraints, in an era of growing international competition. Times, Sunday Times Whatever ethical constraints we impose here on the ground, we should surely wish such pioneers good luck in genetically modifying their progeny to adapt to alien environments. Times, Sunday Times That had been accompanied by a shift in legislative policy towards the relaxation of previously tight professional ethical constraints, so as to permit a variety of more flexible funding arrangements. Times, Sunday Times Only the fox will have needle-sharp teeth as big as breadknives, a cracking turn of speed and absolutely no ethical constraints on his behaviour whatsoever. Times, Sunday Times You have to put up your ethical constraints and ideals and be prepared to be held accountable to achieve them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On the evidence presented here, the bad behaviour of early modern nuns was in fact generated as much by internal tensions as by external constraints. The Times Literary Supplement Such times can prove fruitful for spiritual progress because external constraints diminish. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each period demonstrated different structural features and alternative pathways for adjustments to internal and external constraints. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The University strives to ensure that financial constraints don't put off too many students through one of the more generous bursary schemes. Times, Sunday Times (2008) There are lots of parameters to think about when installing work - legal ones, health and safety, financial constraints. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Also, because of financial constraints and changing attitudes in society, polygamy is becoming less and less common. A Rock and a Hard Place (1994) As a consequence, the realities of fiscal constraints as the economy slowed may be biting and serving to at least delay some projects. ST Fiscal constraints are unlikely to ease and may become more acute given the need to cut borrowing. Times, Sunday Times Indeed, in the coming years, because of fiscal constraints, new routes will be required to achieve greater social justice. Times, Sunday Times Given his self-imposed fiscal constraints, he finds himself in an odd position. Times, Sunday Times The prime minister's spending spree requires a loosening of fiscal constraints and an end to the prevailing orthodoxy that investment in the south delivers greater returns than in the north. Times,Sunday Times It would raise funding constraints with the government. Times,Sunday Times In many digs, resources and funding constraints mean that paleontologists spend an entire field season—or several—digging up one dinosaur fossil. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Funding constraints will continue to restrict lending activity and make loans more expensive. Times, Sunday Times Their caution and funding constraints mean we have gone from feast to famine. Times, Sunday Times And we should not let today's funding constraints be a brake on developing our health system. Times, Sunday Times The distinctive huaso culture grew out of geographical constraints. Smithsonian They flew over land where ground tracking stations are limited by geographical constraints and over broad ocean areas where tracking stations do not exist. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In this case, geographical constraints beget regulatory action. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Geographical constraints can complicate or prohibit the construction of a complete ring road. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Defence budget cuts are likely in many countries in the next couple of years due to the financial constraints imposed on governments. Times, Sunday Times (2009) These ' open networks' would be free of the constraints imposed by existing carriers. Times, Sunday Times (2007) This imposes special responsibilities, and may impose very real constraints on activities throughout the system. Basic Marketing. Principles and Practice (1986) Could it be that the similarities are in fact not just superficial, and that the institutional constraints prove not so binding? The Times Literary Supplement This can cause problems integrating a self-access center due to political and institutional constraints. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They wanted to escape from the mission's institutional constraints and to experiment with dance and drama. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Governments are by nature impatient of legal constraints. Times,Sunday Times The chief executive advises politicians on any problems, unintended consequences of policy, financial or legal constraints. Times, Sunday Times But he added that 'the political systems are not the same and there are legal constraints about asking for money in unsolicited e-mails'. Times, Sunday Times You rightly observe that in such cases local museums, trusts, and universities are not subject to the same legal constraints as national collections. Times,Sunday Times The dealer talked about legal constraints on him and doing his work legally. Times, Sunday Times Strong political leaders overcome the constraints thrown up by voters. Times, Sunday Times His success shows how imaginative leadership can overcome the constraints of bureaucracy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He has the capability to overcome the constraints of time and space. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are no such physical constraints on batsmen. Times, Sunday Times It's only as we grow older that physical constraints become more apparent, particularly when we play a sport that we haven't participated in for ages. Times, Sunday Times In a world of electronic commerce, he argues, the physical constraints that stand in the way of limitless supply, notably shelf space in stores, melt away. Times, Sunday Times During his time there the theatre faced financial and physical constraints but the board supported its adventurous policy, bringing dance and music theatre companies from all over the world. Times, Sunday Times Developing cells additionally impose geometrical and physical constraints upon each other. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It would also place constraints on the absolute neutrino mass scale. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Over the last century, many other treaties have introduced positive laws that place constraints on belligerents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, their cost and complexity place constraints on the environments in which they are practical for use. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other types of integral linearity place constraints on the symmetry or end points of the linear fit with respect to the actual data. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Besides any damaging effects to the system, high stagnation temperatures also place constraints on collector materials. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their final estimate of each sector's lost output took into account both production constraints and the likely demand change. Times,Sunday Times Newer photolithography equipment now allows single-pass exposures for full-frame sensors, although other size-related production constraints remain much the same. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Demand pull inflation occurs as suppliers try to capitalize on the excess demand which can not be met via existing production constraints. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But that was exactly what happened in the crisis when banks faced far fewer regulatory constraints. Times, Sunday Times Individual investors will not be able to lend across national borders despite the acquisition because of regulatory constraints. Times, Sunday Times They respond quickly to change, cope with ambiguity, provide direction and manage effectively despite numerous corporate and regulatory constraints. Times, Sunday Times But while the company, with its distinctive square receiver or 'squarial', pursued an early high-definition television standard, it was beset by technical setbacks and regulatory constraints. Times, Sunday Times One will be an easing of regulatory constraints on banks' lending and use of their capital. Times, Sunday Times Fears have been voiced, however, that strategic decisions on defence will be overshadowed by spending constraints. Times, Sunday Times Even within the severe spending constraints, it should be bolder. Times, Sunday Times In 2009 a national report put this proposal firmly in place, but recent government spending constraints would appear to make this proposal unlikely to be implemented for many years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Supply constraints have also played a part in the rising price because no significant new diamond deposits have been discovered in the past two decades. Times, Sunday Times With time, commodity prices will move back up again as supply constraints kick in, the result of cutbacks by the global miners. Times, Sunday Times Sound demographics and supply constraints still provide underpinning. Times, Sunday Times Oil prices, while volatile, have been generally high in this century because of that demand and because of supply constraints. Times, Sunday Times Recent electricity supply constraints and the reality that electricity tariffs are set to increase substantially have made the search for alternative sources of energy more urgent. ST We are entering an era of tight constraints and lowered ambitions. Times, Sunday Times It has done important work under tight constraints. Times, Sunday Times The vast cost and tight constraints on future public spending have led ministers to question the project's affordability. Times, Sunday Times We were prepared to help them exit despite very tight constraints. Globe and Mail The reconstruction was carried out under tight constraints. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Time constraints can make bedtime stories hard to fit into daily life. The Sun (2014) The report noted that poor families, under time constraints and emotional pressure, often turned to payday lenders to meet the costs. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Thus, we might say that rational individuals take actions that move them closer toward their goals subject to income and time constraints. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice (1995) Translations: Chinese: 限制 Japanese: 制約 |
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