Constraining in a sentence as an adjective

They were constraining the sorts of things you could do,” Brown told us in 2012.

The Court is trying to limit the effects of its decision by constraining it to this one claim by the networks.

Yeah it's constraining to share code and have compile time #defines but if every vendor did the same there wouldn't be any common project.

But there is an inherent tension in an OS that's optimizing for that vs. constraining itself to the desktop and the desktop only.

The question I think is the question of an aversion to essentialism which is generally seen as constraining.

It was by definition lame, constraining, and uninteresting.

When IBM's Watson team was getting started, some people suggested using MapReduce/Hadoop, but the team quickly concluded it was way too slow/constraining and instead opted for an in-memory database with MPI for communication.

This gets at my major frustration with this presentation, which is that to present serialism as merely a fun and basically arbitrary means of constraining your artistic output is deeply hostile to the reasons for why the technique was developed and the music that people made with it.

Do you lose sleep over cable/satellite channels that could be available if only you paid for them?Do you yell at your network hub because it's capable of 150M down but you've only paid for 30?Do you freak out when you see people in VIP areas at events that you've paid general admission to enter?Tesla is being smart by constraining the number of products that they have to produce.

Constraining definitions

adjective

restricting the scope or freedom of action

See also: confining constrictive limiting restricting