Constrained Sentence Examples

He snatched two more oranges before the magic constrained his movement.

In 1752, constrained to secure some position in the world, he accepted a tutorship in a family resident in Livonia, but only retained it a few months.

Could our modern freemasons continue to hide their watchwords and ritual, or even make a pretence of doing so, if they were constrained by public opinion to initiate every child three years of age?

They were, as Milton said, " faithful and freeborn Englishmen and good Christians constrained to forsake their dearest home, their friends, and kindred, whom nothing but the wide ocean and the savage deserts of America could hide and shelter from the fury of the bishops."

Palaeologus, had been advised by his experienced father to avoid all serious negotiations, as they had invariably resulted in increased bitterness; but John, in view of the rapid dismemberment of his empire by the Turks, felt constrained to seek a union.

When the United States found that bribing the pirate Barbary states did not secure exemption from their outrages, and was constrained at last to use force, he served against Algiers and Tunis.

For some years the emperor, with his sound common-sense and dislike of exaggeration, held the balance fairly between the two extremes; but long years of uninterrupted labour, anxiety and disappointment weakened his zeal for reform, and when radicalism assumed more and more the form of secret societies and revolutionary agitation, he felt constrained to adopt severe repressive measures.

Wall trees, it must be evident, are placed in a very unnatural and constrained position, and would in fact soon be reduced to a state of utter confusion if allowed to grow unrestricted; hence the following modes of training have been adopted.

At Dunbar Leslie held Cromwell in the hollow of his hand, but his army had been repeatedly " purged " of all Royalist men of the sword by the preachers; they are said, and Cromwell believed it, to have constrained Leslie to leave his impregnable position and attack on the lower levels.

The pilgrimage thither must have attained great importance as early as the 15th century; for the popes of the Renaissance found themselves constrained to erect an imposing pilgrim church above the "Holy House."

Their power steadily grew until Radi (934-941) was constrained to hand over most of the royal functions to Mahommed b.

Hence a rigid body not constrained in any way is said to have six degrees of freedom.

That this ratio should be less than unity agrees with the theory of constrained types already given.

Private sector investment is severely constrained by limited returns on products for markets with low purchasing power.

However, she could not now forbear; for the love of Christ constrained her.

In order that a kinematic chain may be made the basis of a mechanism, every point in any link of it must be completely constrained with regard to every other link.

In many New England communities a majority in the churches of the standing order bitterly opposed the new evangelism, and those who came under its influence felt constrained to organize "Separate" or "New Light" churches.

The fortress, constructed in 1789, successfully withstood a siege by Aga Mahommed of Persia in 1795, but was constrained to surrender two years afterwards.

But the absence of troops on the Finnish border, and the bad condition of the frontier fortresses, constrained the empress to listen to Gustavus's pacific assurances, and stay her hand.

For this very reason the Sassanid Empire was the more constrained to champion Zoroastrianism.

In 1476 Mahomet again invaded Moldavia, but, though successful in the open field, the Turks were sorely harassed by Stephen's guerilla onslaughts, and, being thinned by pestilence, were again constrained to retire.

On the accession of Constantine Ypsilanti (1802-6) in Walachia, and of Alexander Murusi (1802-6) in Moldavia, the Porte was constrained to issue a new hattisherif by which every prince was to hold his office for at least seven years, unless the protec- Porte satisfied the Russian minister that there were good and sufficient grounds for his deposition.

Bratianu wrote with some truth that the Great Powers by sacrificing Rumania were able to obtain more concessions for themselves from Russia, and Lord Beaconsfield was constrained to admit that " in politics ingratitude is often the reward of the greatest services.

Indeed, Bury is constrained to admit that the view of Semon and others may be correct, and that these so-called calycinal systems may not be heirlooms from a calyculate ancestor, but may have been independently developed in the various classes owing to the action of similar causes.

For some years he was constrained to take a minor part in politics, only emerging occasionally to make violent and unwise protests against peace with France.

Calvin was in his twenty-eighth year when he was thus constrained to settle at Geneva; and in this city the rest of his life, with the exception of a brief interval, was spent.

An attempt was made by Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto (1477-1547), bishop of Carpentras, to take advantage of this so as to restore the papal supremacy in that district; but this design Calvin, at the request of the Bernese authorities, who had been consulted by those of Geneva, completely frustrated, by writing such a reply to the letter which the bishop had addressed to the Genevese, as constrained him to desist from all further efforts.

To this petition Ambrose replied in a letter to Valentinian, arguing that the devoted worshippers of idols had often been forsaken by their deities; that the native valour of the Roman soldiers had gained their victories, and not the pretended influence of pagan priests; that these idolatrous worshippers requested for themselves what they refused to Christians; that voluntary was more honourable than constrained virginity; that as the Christian ministers declined to receive temporal emoluments, they should also be denied to pagan priests; that it was absurd to suppose that God would inflict a famine upon the empire for neglecting to support a religious system contrary to His will as revealed in the Scriptures; that the whole process of nature encouraged innovations, and that all nations had permitted them, even in religion; that heathen sacrifices were offensive to Christians; and that it was the duty of a Christian prince to suppress pagan ceremonies.

He didn't think the memory was enough of a punishment for taking the life of an innocent human, but he was constrained again by the primary mission of the Guardians to protect humanity against evil, deserving or not.

The b usiness of a Special General Meeting shall b usiness of a Special General Meeting shall be constrained to the matter or matters put in the request.

William acknowledged that he had been constrained by ecclesiastical censure to make peace with Byland.

A further design question is to reconsider whether and how different activities should be spatially constrained.

The scope of the poetry is not, however, constrained by geographical or even earthly boundaries.

True MORB values and perhaps upper mantle geochemistry can be constrained only by considering data untainted by plume asthenosphere.

With two sections of single line and a busy mainline in between pathing is very constrained.

The Inspection Manager is no longer constrained to areas that can be easily reached by conventional means.

Our review of treatments for opiate misusers in a primary care setting was constrained by resources (time, staff ).

I think I'm just constrained by the rules of diplomatic nicety not to make an announcement on behalf of the Indian government.

The properties available for analysis are constrained by the set of actions that remain globally observable.

The columns T are constrained to be mutually orthogonal.

They function on the principle of constrained maximization of the Shannon entropy, which produces the most statistically probable solution consistent with the constraints.

N. Mtetwa and L.S. Smith, Precision constrained stochastic resonance in a feedforward neural network.

Details of article The effects of constrained movement on fission-fusion sociality in Colombian black spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps robustus) by Samantha Coleman.

One way of doing this was to make a homogenous trellis constrained code by forcing the parity bits to be identical.

Listeners find tropes easy to understand precisely because much of their thinking is constrained by figurative processes.

He was essentially an amiable man, who hated the zeal for an impossible orthodoxy that constrained "the church to institute a search after crimes which have not betrayed an existence, yea, and to drag into open contentions those who are meditating no evil."

The movable coil of the wattmeter is normally suspended so that its axis is at right angles to that of the fixed coil and is constrained by the torsion of a spiral spring.

He discouraged the king's advances, showed reluctance to go to the palace, and seemed constrained when there.

The fact that Rice was unduly optimistic and allowed the enterprises of the Convention to become almost hopelessly involved in debt, and was constrained to use some of the fund collected for missions to meet the exigencies of his educational and journalistic work, intensified the hostility of those who had suspected from the beginning the good faith of the agents and denied the scriptural authority of boards, paid agents, paid missionaries, &c. So virulent became the opposition that in several states, as Tennessee and Kentucky, the work of the Convention was for years excluded, and a large majority in each association refused to receive into their fellowship those who advocated or contributed to its objects.

But when Augustine is concerned to reconcile the reality of individual freedom with humanity's universal need of redemption and with the absolute voluntariness of Divine Grace, he is constrained to contradict most of those postulates of which in his advocacy of libertarianism he was an eager champion.

The soft objects are represented by implicit surfaces which are visualized using a constrained particle method.

You don't have to be constrained to one scent; many women also enjoy layering their fragrances - either with different perfumes or through the combination of different lotions, soaps and fragrance.

While Disney's Cinderella has a tight, somewhat bumpy, updo, a more classic Cinderella would not have her hair so constrained.

Many couples even find that renewal ceremonies can be more personalized and meaningful than their wedding day, because they do not have to be constrained by as many traditions or legal requirements for a vow renewal.

Luckily for budget constrained bass guitar hunters, there are plenty of places to land a good deal on your instrument.

Cardigans were especially embraced by high school and college boys as a way of looking collegial without being constrained by a jacket.

Plugging your Xbox in directly with an Ethernet cable gives you a more consistent speed, but your constrained by that same Ethernet cable if you need to place your Xbox in another room.

Symptoms include progressively constrained eye movements, droopy eye lids, muscle weakness, short stature, hearing loss, loss of coordination, heart problems, cognitive delays, and diabetes.

Except in the most corporate of atmospheres, women are not constrained to suits but can wear dresses or good separates.

This intelligent design makes it simple to find what you're looking for, because everything is constrained within its own individual pocket.

All human relations issues in the workplace are also constrained by civil rights law.

With a closed panel policy, you are completely constrained by the network or financially penalized for seeking care outside the preferred range of doctors.

Large as this progress was it would have been much greater if the Telephone Company had been granted adequate powers to put wires underground and thus instal a complete metallic circuit in place of the single wire, earthreturn, circuit which it was constrained to employ.

His extreme sensitiveness and hatred of pain constrained Mill to hold that, if a good God exists, he cannot possess infinite power.

Every plant is constrained to carry Out its functions of germination, growth, nutrition, reproduction, &c., between certain limits of temperature, and somewhere between the extremes of these limits each function finds ao optimum temperature at which the working of the living machinery is at its best, and, other things being equal, any great departure from this may induce pathological conditions; and many disasters are due to the failure to provide such suitable temperaturese.g.

The whole circumstances of the conquest of England constrained the conquerors to become Englishmen in order to establish themselves in the conquered land.

He kept on diligently collecting materials, and as he did so was constrained to modify some of the statements he had published.

The system of military service and the organization of justice corresponded to the part which the monarchy was thus constrained to play.

Closely related to the structure of metals is their degree of "plasticity" (susceptibility of being constrained into new forms without breach of continuity).

It cannot have been his conscience which constrained him to leave Teresa, for his next step was to marry Berengaria of Castile, who was his second cousin.

After their dispersion the Jews were constrained to have recourse to the astronomical rules and cycles of the more enlightened heathen, in order that their religious festivals might be observed on the same days in all the countries through which they were scattered.

Among the propositions he could heartily abjure was that relating to transubstantiation; among those he felt constrained unflinchingly to maintain was one which had given great offence, to the effect that Christ, not Peter, is the head of the church to whom ultimate appeal must be made.

In every great war we find them ranged on opposite sides, except when superior force constrained both.

As provost of the "chapter" in that city he directly felt the pressure of events; for on the suppression of religious orders and corporations, he was constrained to retire into private life.

The movable coil of the wattmeter is normally suspended so that its axis is at right angles to that of the fixed coil, and is constrained by the torsion of a spiral spring.

In 1868 the Russians entered Samarkand (May 14), and the emir was constrained to submit to the terms of the conqueror, becoming henceforward only a Russian puppet.

On the death of the childless tsar Theodore (January 7, 1598), self-preservation quite as much as ambition constrained Boris to seize the throne.

Nobles and ministers of state, with the chief ecclesiastics not only of the Russian Church but of the Roman, the Uniat, the Armenian, the Greek, the Georgian and the Lutheran Churches, found themselves constrained to serve on its committees.

It is generated by the extremities of a rod which is constrained to move so that its middle point traces out a circle, the rod always passing through a fixed point on the circumference.

The god has not been constrained or invited to enter in.

Though constrained by the general dangers of her position to make terms with Prussia, Maria Theresa long cherished the hope of recovering a possession which she, unlike her predecessors, valued highly and held by a far better title than did her opponent.

Serious military reverses constrained him for the present to withhold it, while on the other hand they served to increase the pressure upon him from anti-slavery men.

The conditions which tend to induce them contain generally, as one element, constrained visual attention prolonged beyond ordinary duration.

Abu Salama also was constrained to take the oath.

In 776 Mandi constrained him for a large bribe to renounce his right of succession in favour of his sons, Musa and Harun.

For (3) (a) we are constrained to refer the reader to Joly's own Manual of Quaternions (1905).

As a first application of the equations (2) take the case of a solid constrained to rotate with constant angular velocity to about a fixed axis (1, m, n).

When we consider the different attitude towards dogma of Roman Catholicism, we feel constrained to question whether the expression "dogmatic theology" can be equally suitable for both communions.

This he felt constrained to do, much against his personal desire; and subsequently he attempted in vain to purchase Sims's freedom, and many years later appointed him to a position in the department of justice at Washington.

This was to avoid a responsibility for which he felt unfit - a frequent attitude of more pious Moslems. Others say that al-Mandi, scn of al-Mansur, actually constrained him to be a judge and that he died a few days after.

The voivode Radu (1462-75) was substituted for this monster by Turkish influence, and constrained to pay a tribute of 12,000 ducats; but Vlad returned to the throne in 1476-77.

When it comes to decentralization, their slogans are "constrained discretion" and "the new localism."

Your average company is less liquidity constrained than your average employe.

On Grice's picture, what is said is tightly constrained by linguistic meaning.

The productive forces of Russia were artificially constrained by the bureaucratic system.

He had approached the shed full of animation, but on seeing Prince Andrew's face he felt constrained and ill at ease.

Regis was constrained to hold back for ten years his System of Philosophy; and when it did appear, in 1690, the name of Descartes was absent from the title-page.

The nobility is no longer all-powerful; it may be constrained to admit within its own body members for whose presence it has no wish.

His most ardent admirers, however, are constrained to admit that he was deficient in large-hearted benevolence; that he was destitute of any " enthusiasm of humanity "; and that so far as every sort of religious yearning or aspiration is concerned, his poverty was almost unique.

The Turkish government was constrained to pay them £142,425 by way of compensation.

The great emperor Kwammu (782806) was constrained to devote a space of five years to the reorganization of the whole system of post-stations.

Much against his own judgment, Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, the Federal general-in-chief, a veteran of the second war with England and of the war with Mexico, felt constrained to order an advance against Beauregard, while Patterson was to hold Johnston in check on the Shenandoah.

On the 2nd of April he was constrained to submit to the formation of a new ministry, in which the duke of Portland was prime minister and Fox and North were secretaries of state.

After five minutes of irksome, constrained conversation, they heard the sound of slippered feet rapidly approaching.

How should the past life of nations and of humanity be regarded--as the result of the free, or as the result of the constrained, activity of man?