Constrain in a sentence as a verb

It is a mistake to constrain the increase in domain to > larger or more frequent diffs.

"As an engineer, I love hearing firm constraints from the beginning.

"As a technologist, you know that the worst thing that you can do is over-constrain the problem before you start.

The fundamental principle underneath is one of balance, and you can trigger it with constraint.

The constraints are what breed elegance; there is no such thing as an elegant solution when there is no shape to the problem.

The entire point of the constitution is to constrain the ability of the government to do things.

The absolute worst thing you can do from a creativity standpoint is be completely unconstrained.

Constitutional or not, it just serves to limit the debate and to constrain opinions.

"B: "It certainly didn't constrain the imagination did it?

It's okay to document those constraints and, perhaps, make changes if you find the problem you've created to be intractable.

Making useless work where none is needed is wrong, so there is no reason to artificially constrain students to being present.

The largest or wealthiest employers can often afford to constrain their candidates to people who have proven themselves in other settings.

But operating without those constraints, whether real or self-imposed, is the absolute worst way to approach any creative problem solving endeavor.

You can't expect reforms made in the seventies to constrain intelligence agencies indefinitely.

Postgres for example, allows you to create regular expression constraints which you could use to ensure that a text column only contains a valid variable name.

Am I the only one getting burnt by MySQL and SQLite playing loose with types and silently coercing data almost randomly?Check constraints are also great and has saved my *** so many times.

It is my job as a company owner to help constrain and groom the subset of what's getting done every day so that the business prospers without burning through people like charcoal briquettes.

"Broadly speaking, the more desirable properties you try to obtain at once, the more you constrain the design, and it is absolutely possible to constrain the design to the point where there are zero solutions.

It's nice if the constraints are prioritized so you know what to give up if you can't satisfy them all. But there's nothing quite like saying "Yeah, we did this thing in two weeks that everyone assumed was impossible, and we did it without a binary push" or "Through our clever architecture, we accomplished with one server what everyone thought required a whole rack.

* If you ruthlessly constrain the features of a natural language-like programming language, it's possible that you can keep the advantage of human readability and dodge the disadvantage of the "uncanny valley", as `antihero` succinctly put it.

Constrain definitions

verb

hold back

See also: restrain encumber cumber

verb

restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations"

See also: stiffen tighten