Synonyms for constraining
con·strain·ing

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1. confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restrictingadjective

   restricting the scope or freedom of action

   Synonyms:
   limiting, narrowing, close, confining, restricting, constrictive, constricting

   Antonyms:
   unrestrictive

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1. List of paraphrases for "constraining":

   limiter, binding, limiting, restricting, restrictive

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1. President Barack Obama:

   Our goal has to be militarily constraining ISIL's capabilities, cutting off their supply lines, cutting off their financing.

2. Peter Cafiero:

   You can’t really add anything anywhere, there is something constraining us everywhere at all times of day, at this point, on every line.

3. President Barack Obama:

   And I will then ask every member of Congress to ask why would we reject that deal and prefer a potential military option that would be less effective in constraining Iran's nuclear program and would have extraordinarily ramifications at a time when we've already got too many conflicts in the Middle East, and I'm pretty confident I can win that argument.

4. Ankit Panda:

   A robust Saudi missile program would introduce new challenges to constraining other missile programs in the region. To take just one example, Iran's missiles, which are a major concern to the U.S., would be more difficult to constrain in the future without parallel constraints on a growing Saudi program.

5. Vittoria Colliza:

   This [ mandates ] was really a change of paradigm, if you think about vaccine hesitancy and how authorities tried to handle it, at the beginning it was really a lot of pressure on explanations, on communication, and the aim was really not to oblige people but to convince them. And at a certain point, given the very large circulation of the Delta variant in several EU countries, authorities move towards something that is a bit more constraining.