Julian Assange

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.

Australian Activist

Jenova Chen

When I was a teenager, I felt my life was constrained by rules, school, my parents. I wanted to feel like I was empowered and different; that's why superheroes, comics, manga, and video games filled my needs. When I got older, I realized power is not free; it comes with responsibility.

Chinese Designer

Tony Robinson

As a child actor, you haven't been allowed to be yourself for most of your life; you've been constrained by the demands of your job, your parents, directors. A fictional or amplified version of you exists, but when you're 17, you can't have a debate with yourself about authenticity.

English Actor

Robert Smith

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

English Musician

Lawrence Summers

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

American Economist

Dean Ornish

Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

American Educator

Margaret MacMillan

Women are interested in relationships and how other societies manage those relationships. They may have been constrained in what roles were open to them, but they could question and observe, and they could write it down.

Canadian Historian

Gail Collins

Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.

American Journalist

Robert Grosseteste

And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you.

English Statesman

Bjarne Stroustrup

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

Danish Scientist

Constrain also applies to intangible factors, not just physical limitations.

Beyond Physical

Often used with passive or impersonal subjects emphasizing the constraining factor.

Impersonal Structures

Constrain may imply a negative impact on freedom or progress.

Perception Matters

The action is usually involuntary, often enforced by external forces.

Forcefulness Implied

Often suggests unwanted pressure causing someone to act against their will.

Can Indicate Distress

Constrain can mean subtly pressured by circumstances rather than overtly forced.

Not Always Forceful

In science or math, it's about limiting factors to focus on what's essential.

Context-Specific Use

In specialized contexts, constraints are crucial for precision and replicability.

Clarity in Constraints

 we interested is constraining the amount of dark matter in the universe that's on the x-axis and the amount of dark energy on the universe that's on the y-axis everything within one of these ellipses is this is indistinguishable from one model from the other and so we want to make those ellipses as small as possible

Making sense of...

 scales there are additional dimensions crumpled to a tiny size so small that we have not detected them but even though the dimensions are hidden they would have an impact on things that we can observe because the shape of the extra dimensions constrains how the strings can vibrate

Is our universe the only...

 It helps you understand how you became you. But we don't always realize that we're the authors of our stories and can change the way we're telling them. Your life isn't just a list of events. You can edit, interpret and retell your story, even as you're constrained by the facts.

There's more to life...

 Their systematic approach to abstract principles was in stark contrast to the popular belief that math was an intuitive science, and an over-dependence on logic constrained creativity. But this rebellious band of scholars gleefully ignored conventional wisdom.

The greatest mathematicia...

 is constrained by our biology, and that goes against the common sense notion that our eyes and our ears and our fingertips are just picking up the objective reality that's out there. Instead, our brains are sampling just a little bit of the world.

Can we create new senses...

 But even though the dimensions are hidden, they would have an impact on things that we can observe because the shape of the extra dimensions constrains how the strings can vibrate. And in string theory, vibration determines everything.

Why is our universe...

 Open an application, that's an effect. Now when we compare this to our physical universe, it is overly constraining, because our universe is not digital. Our universe is analog. Our universe doesn't think in terms of zero or one,

The dawn of the age of...

 All of us with stigmatized identities face this question How much to accommodate society by constraining ourselves, and how much to break the limits of what constitutes a valid life? Forging meaning and building identity

How the worst moments in...

 they extinguish the candles to help us see visions more clearly I'm starting to see things differently that I know there are the things that I can see that they are the constrained people's faces

Shamanistic Potion PIPE...

 now we're gonna wait for user is too big to handle so we really have to sedate him it's really sad constrain your sanity after five minutes equals a week

Constrain

To limit or restrict someone or something.

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To control or influence something forcefully.

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To compel or force someone towards a particular course of action.

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In mathematics or science, to limit the variables in an experiment or equation.

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