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  • "Constraints" it acknowledged included "bureaucracy and ineptitude," low value-adding capacity, small and fragmented markets, an underdeveloped agricultural sector, and Africa's heavy debt burden.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Analyst: 'Constraints' likely lowered iPhone 4 launch sales

    MacNN | The Macintosh News Network 2010

  • Constraints on identifying individual insurance carriers and health-care providers stem from privacy and antitrust laws, he said.

    Health Insurers Will Give Claims Data to Institute Anna Wilde Mathews 2011

  • Constraints may include available resources, physical, imaginative or technical limitations, flexibility for future modifications and additions, and other factors, such as requirements for cost, safety, marketability, productibility, and serviceability.

    A Modest Proposal (By a Somewhat Modest Engineer) 2009

  • Constraints might be cultural, technical, political or collections-related - we're good at talking about the technical and resourcing constraints, but while we all acknowledge the cultural and political constraints it often happens behind closed doors and usually not in a way that explicitly helps the project succeed.

    A call for agile museum projects (a lunchtime manifesto) Mia 2009

  • Constraints on available gas do not allow otherwise.

    Jeremy Leggett: U.S. Must Help Saudi Arabia Turn Into "the Saudi Arabia of Solar," WikiLeaks Cables Say Jeremy Leggett 2011

  • Constraints on policing are necessary and important, but a judgement call on the part of police could have halted this much sooner.

    The Dukes of Hazzard, only with a Scion Tyler 2009

  • NASA could do VSE in budget, but the constraints on the agency have been such that it's been impossible to save the money one place to direct it into Cx. Constraints, btw, also include some of the earlier engineering decisions, with solutions coming before the requirements horse.

    Good Morning Houston - NASA Watch 2009

  • Constraints – Eighty percent of all obstacles to success come from within.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1204 2009

  • Constraints might be cultural, technical, political or collections-related - we're good at talking about the technical and resourcing constraints, but while we all acknowledge the cultural and political constraints it often happens behind closed doors and usually not in a way that explicitly helps the project succeed.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Mia 2009

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