constraint

The payoff was a liberating and original way of viewing your own society, denuded of its specialness and its constraints.

“They kept saying there was a time constraint, I had to make a decision,” she said.

In short, Mr. Obama feels no constraint in faithfully executing the laws as written by the Congress.

Gravity is transformed from the constraint that holds us dully to Earth into the power that lets us fly.

Immigration is even less "easy", because the main constraint on foriegn doctors is not visas, but residency slots.

We need to be prudent; in an era of budget constraint, I think it will turn out that little fixes will have the greatest payoff.

In that case, Valerie, you shall suffer no constraint; you shall continue here as you have done.

Austerity banishes familiarity from family life and engenders constraint.

His gestures, his manner, showed trace of it in a certain constraint, a sort of hesitating distrust.

At lunch Susan, between Liosha and Jaffery, became the centre of attention and saved conversation from constraint.

So, after a little constraint and coldness, he began to stand in much the same relation to him as before.