noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
additional
▪ For schools, there is also the additional constraint of curriculum-led staffing.
▪ Now let us return to P1 and ask what happens if the additional constraint is included in P1.
▪ Both cases can be covered by imposing the additional constraint and then turning to the second objective.
▪ Such changes are always difficult to work through and additional constraints would be very frustrating for the association and its members.
▪ However, if the additional constraint is binding, the median voter would no longer be able to choose E 1.
budgetary
▪ Needs for social care would be identified according to the social services department's policy and budgetary constraints.
▪ Nonprofit organizations and government agencies must effectively implement programs that further their causes or policies within budgetary constraints and shifting public priorities.
▪ In 1989, the Piscataway school district in New Jersey had to dismiss one high school business teacher because of budgetary constraints.
certain
▪ Obviously you have to work within certain financial constraints.
▪ To have such a group under one's roof making their own vociferous demands imposed certain constraints and posed problems of control.
▪ Scientific and Theoretical Studies - from which, subject to certain constraints, students select subjects of their choice.
▪ Also, certain constraints have the potential to make both problems worse.
▪ Within certain environmental constraints, a mix of land uses can bring important environmental benefits including reducing the need to travel.
different
▪ The reason is that they have different functions, which impose different constraints on their nature.
▪ Clearly, designing for fit young men in the armed forces has different constraints from designing for middle-aged female workers in manufacturing.
▪ This places different constraints on pollution control officers.
▪ Self-paced reading time, for instance, may show that different constraints have different time courses.
▪ Women's claims to maintenance from the state have been subject to different constraints.
economic
▪ Foremost among these economic constraints is the markedly low level of complementarity in the structure of production of the two regions.
▪ Such figures say much about ways in which female employment was determined by economic and cultural constraints.
▪ Furthermore, in times of economic constraints, the incorporation of aspects of an economics-based strategy may be beneficial.
▪ We can now add economic constraints.
▪ Will the new channel be able to provide it within its economic constraints?
environmental
▪ This low growth will result from such factors as inflation, energy costs, environmental constraint and low population growth.
▪ Alternative transport systems, framed environmental constraints.
▪ Within certain environmental constraints, a mix of land uses can bring important environmental benefits including reducing the need to travel.
external
▪ This is so because the former quite possibly face weaker external constraints and because management may not encounter such sophisticated incentive structures.
▪ First, there is the external constraint structure.
▪ Expert Systems Problem Solving/Minimisation Within a specific environment problems may be solved or they may only minimised depending upon external constraints imposed.
▪ In short, choice is narrowed by internal as well as external constraints.
▪ The results will provide deeper insight into the impact of external constraints and competing functional goals upon the firm's marketing effectiveness.
▪ These areas of conduct have become more subject to self-constraint and less subject to external constraint.
▪ No external quantity constraints impinge upon the behaviour of firms.
financial
▪ Obviously you have to work within certain financial constraints.
▪ These forces can be grouped into four major categories: political considerations, socio-demographic factors, economic change and financial constraint.
▪ More recently, governments have imposed financial constraints limiting the call of state enterprises on public funds.
▪ Both governments also attempted to control the financial demands of the railways by strengthening the framework of financial targets and constraints.
▪ This places financial constraints on qualification as a barrister which do not exist for intending solicitors.
▪ Their financial constraints are more severe and the credit facilities at their disposal are less diverse and less sophisticated.
▪ New and more stringent financial constraints and other commercial pressures on management required appropriate organizational channels through which to take effect.
▪ I must however caution that financial and other constraints compel us to plan more conservatively than I imagine you would wish.
free
▪ There are benefits to being free from the constraints of full-time employment.
▪ He had never before met a woman so entirely free of the constraints which he had come to associate with being female.
▪ They wanted to be free of constraints, just as the Bush people do today.
institutional
▪ We must further admit institutional constraints in the form of the time available to study Renaissance writing on a degree course.
▪ Their stature presented large institutional constraints to the framework for community treatment.
legal
▪ Thirdly, the removal of legal constraints and other self-imposed restrictive barriers separating banks from other financial institutions.
▪ Finally, there are some legal constraints on dividend payments.
▪ Also there are legal constraints on the use of price sensitive information.
▪ Because the people who run our Overdrive offices are experienced, they know the legal constraints that abound in transport.
▪ Availability of Corpora Corpus availability is currently limited due to legal constraints although some have been cleared for academic research.
▪ He sees the range of legal and bureaucratic constraints upon them as being the main limitation on their developing into self-sustaining businesses.
main
▪ What are the main sales constraints?
▪ Perhaps the main constraint is lack of money.
▪ In practice, objectivity is the main constraint on achieving more relevant financial statements.
▪ Money and skilled manpower are the main constraints.
▪ The main constraints from measurement theory are summarized below.
▪ As the fuel protests showed, the main constraint on government is public opinion, not globalisation or corporate power.
major
▪ Traditionally, there have been two major constraints.
▪ There was another major constraint on action.
▪ The major constraint on architecture was the decision to use production rules to represent knowledge.
▪ Limitations of time and money acted as major constraints in the design of my research.
▪ The ethnic borders remain a major constraint and not until they have been done away with can we be effective.
▪ These structural problems will act as a major constraint on any potential recovery in the housing market.
only
▪ The only constraint on writer input was that some care was taken over legibility.
other
▪ Capacity and other resource constraints which may limit the target's ability to respond to increases in demand.
▪ Economic problems were often identified as important, although other constraints were seen to affect many of the deprived households.
▪ But newspapers, and their editors, can face other constraints.
▪ The other constraint on the absolutist interpretation of the sovereignty concept arose from Dicey's normativist conception of law.
▪ A range of phonological and other constraints are then examined quantitatively.
▪ There are other constraints on the firm's capital, however, most importantly perhaps, the takeover constraint.
▪ Hence it is unlikely that one or the other constraint is truly redundant.
▪ I must however caution that financial and other constraints compel us to plan more conservatively than I imagine you would wish.
physical
▪ Certain other physical problems and constraints will now be identified.
political
▪ First, there is the establishment of goals in the light of available data and with the recognition of economic, political and administrative constraints.
▪ The ultimate obstacle is not one of technique but of political and ethical constraint.
▪ Formal and political constraints limited the effect of any opposition from the House of Lords.
▪ Are the political constraints that prevent purchasers from making their decisions on rationing explicit any different from those facing clinicians?
▪ It ignores specific historical and political constraints to discuss a broader welfare-maximizing Paretian framework.
▪ I have previously outlined the possibilities of political constraints on what we study.
pragmatic
▪ This example illustrates again the important difference between semantic constraints and these sorts of pragmatic constraints.
▪ In normal spoken language there are often clear pragmatic constraints on the choice of particular syntactic forms.
▪ Even more fundamental than these pragmatic constraints, however, is the educational philosophy underlying the two initiatives.
▪ In fact an efficient parser must be guided by pragmatic as well as syntactic constraints.
▪ Fourthly, it seems to be a fact that pragmatic constraints are generally defeasible, or not invariable.
semantic
▪ The semantic constraint may take precedence over acoustic information. 4.2.2.2.
▪ This example illustrates again the important difference between semantic constraints and these sorts of pragmatic constraints.
▪ By choosing to override semantic constraints, the speaker will be speaking nonliterally.
serious
▪ That can become a serious constraint on the expansion of the consumer and service sectors and the employment they generate.
▪ The Frangos team confronted serious organization design constraints.
severe
▪ Overall it seems likely that the existence, speed and intensity-correlated behaviour of QPOs in AGNs will provide severe constraints on models.
▪ From now on Mr Trimble can negotiate peace only under two, severe constraints.
social
▪ Lavandera has pointed out that much work on syntactic variation tends to focus on syntactic rather than social constraints.
▪ However, not every social constraint has a law to back it up.
▪ The choices governments face are conditioned by social constraints, as we discuss in chapter 6.
structural
▪ And there were inevitable structural constraints built in.
▪ However, the emphasis on structural constraints and formal controls provides only a partial view.
syntactic
▪ That is, 4,000 x 4,000 words have to be checked against the acoustic, phonological and syntactic constraints.
▪ Lavandera has pointed out that much work on syntactic variation tends to focus on syntactic rather than social constraints.
▪ In fact an efficient parser must be guided by pragmatic as well as syntactic constraints.
▪ Severe contention exists about whether a rule-based or statistical approach should be used to apply syntactic constraints.
■ NOUN
budget
▪ The finance director gives committees advice on the authority's overall budget constraints for the next year.
▪ In the second stage, choose the expenditure allocation so as to maximize overall welfare subject to the overall budget constraint.
▪ While this reinforces the empirical nature of the question, there is a further empirically relevant problem raised by nonlinear budget constraints.
▪ Decisions made in the absence of a direct budget constraint, such as those made for Medicare reimbursement in health planning.
▪ The consequences of changes in the budget constraint for hours of work again become generally unpredictable apriori.
▪ Given federal budget constraints, though, large-scale prescribed burns are pretty unlikely.
▪ The government budget constraint is so that we must have or.
▪ The introduction of the scheme guarantees irrespective of actual earnings, so becomes the origin of the budget constraint.
resource
▪ Capacity and other resource constraints which may limit the target's ability to respond to increases in demand.
▪ Realism was needed in providing new services because of resource constraints.
▪ Another example of resource constraints in the service sector is the shortage of trained motor mechanics required by garages.
time
▪ For 56 per cent this was down to time constraints, whilst 33 per cent cited cost as the reason.
▪ The primary mission of industrial production managers is planning the production schedule within budgetary limitations and time constraints.
▪ Be kind to yourself in judging your first attempts at answering exam questions under a time constraint.
▪ Federal officials said those beneficiaries would not be affected unless their state has more liberal time constraints.
■ VERB
accept
▪ Should we accept constitutional constraints on democratic power to prevent the majority from limiting freedom of speech or other important liberties?
▪ But why did society voluntarily accept the constraints imposed by the gold standard?
add
▪ A slight modification of the procedure will enable us to add equality constraints.
▪ In particular, it may be necessary to add or remove constraints.
▪ To illustrate the addition or alteration of upper bounds we will start by adding the constraint to problem P2 of Section 7.1.
▪ We can now add economic constraints.
▪ This means we can add the constraint without affecting the optimal solution.
face
▪ This is so because the former quite possibly face weaker external constraints and because management may not encounter such sophisticated incentive structures.
▪ Yet at the same time, managers face constraints on their actions.
▪ But newspapers, and their editors, can face other constraints.
▪ It is appropriate therefore to see the state and its actors as facing strategic choices within constraints.
impose
▪ All refinement steps were done without imposing non-crystallographic symmetry constraints.
▪ If a neural network system is good at recall functions only, then it is necessary to impose constraints and limitations.
▪ The reason is that they have different functions, which impose different constraints on their nature.
▪ This imposed an extra constraint on the larger vessels.
▪ If we impose too stringent constraints on the match, then we will fail to access the correct word.
▪ In that case also, the state in principle sets management an objective and imposes constraints soas to achieve the result.
▪ This was entirely in accordance with the intentions of the Structure Plan which had imposed virtually no constraints on such development.
▪ All this imposes a powerful constraint on language acquisition from the allegedly scanty data available to any child.
operate
▪ The projects were tested under real life conditions by classroom teachers operating within the normal constraints of teaching.
▪ Of course, these media do operate under constraints, based on regulatory guidelines for balanced and accurate content.
▪ And even while operating under that constraint, Clinton proposed to expand Medicaid coverage to some 5 million uninsured children.
place
▪ The layout of documents can provide additional information which also places constraints on the recognition process.
▪ They placed three critical constraints on the projects.
▪ Its pattern-searching strategy resolves many theoretical issues by placing them within the constraint of empirical evidence.
▪ He did not place any constraints on input.
provide
▪ Overall it seems likely that the existence, speed and intensity-correlated behaviour of QPOs in AGNs will provide severe constraints on models.
▪ There are constraints-the courts provide a lot of constraints, for example-but none the less, the e is considerable autonomy in this work.
▪ What can be provided depends on many constraints, such as money, fuel and land.
▪ These objects therefore provide only weak constraints on our model.
▪ So, shareholders can not be relied upon necessarily to provide much of a constraint on managers.
▪ Hence, although banks provide a constraint, they do not ensure efficiency.
▪ However longer transitions provide stronger constraints on the tag combinations.
▪ Evidently, the information so obtained may provide a further constraint of use in semantic analysis.
remove
▪ In particular, it may be necessary to add or remove constraints.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They have called on the military to show constraint.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In 1989, the Piscataway school district in New Jersey had to dismiss one high school business teacher because of budgetary constraints.
▪ It is an unnecessary constraint, since without it the manager would do better.
▪ So this is a linguistic constraint.
▪ The finance director gives committees advice on the authority's overall budget constraints for the next year.
▪ They may also be subject to similar constraints and failures.
▪ This constraint may not apply to fundholding practices where, in addition to the obvious benefits to the patient, real financial incentives exist.
▪ This may reflect lower evolutionary constraints on the structure of this region in the two proteins.