constrained

Origin of constrained¹

A president who has reveled in his ability to single-handedly direct policy—often prompting stocks, bonds, and the dollar to swing rapidly—now suddenly finds himself more constrained.

Our conversations with God shouldn’t be constrained by a fear of blaspheming in mentioning the dead and thereby challenging his judgment.

He and other Reaganites believed presidents had been dangerously constrained by what they saw as an overreaction to Nixon’s criminal behavior.

The evolving dark energy "model" used in most previous data analyses is just a mathematical formula that isn't constrained to behave as physical models do.

The reality is that Mamdani would be heavily constrained in office.