Third, the departure of American forces from Iraq removes both a focus for Iranian retaliation and a constraint on America.
After the Bretton Woods system collapsed in 1971, trade imbalances ceased to be much of a constraint on the developed world.
Yankowski asserted that he didn't believe the recent U.K. auction of five 3G licenses would wind up becoming a hidden tax on the consumer, or even a constraint on competition.
Still, as Perkins tells it, the OT lawsuit was quickly settled, whereas analogous claims today drag on for years and have become a major constraint on whole industries, including smart phones, eReaders, and their newer relatives, the tablets.
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There is a further constraint on an issuer's ability to get a better deal.
The larger economic case is that while of course I agree that there is a real constraint on economic growth from resource depletion, I think that that as a binding constraint is a lot further away than many seem to realise.
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Walling off research from the rest of the firm is a severe constraint on the investment banker plying his trade, says Mr Hayes.
Battery technology has proved a major constraint on the ability to turn electricity (including electricity generated from renewable sources) into an efficient transportation fuel.
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New START skeptics argued that the Commission could in fact function as a significant constraint on missile defense, in ways that undermine the role of the Senate in the formulation of U.S. foreign policy.
If Congress imposes a hard budget constraint on itself by refusing to raise the debt ceiling and establishes Social Security and interest on the debt as priority must-pays out of revenues before any other programs may be funded, it would require total other, non-priority spending to be reduced not quite one-third on average during the next ten years.
One reason for this relationship, as he explains, is that the Laffer Curve is a real-world constraint on class warfare tax policy.
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But, as Joel Kotkin and Thomas Tseng argue in a study on Latinos and the housing market, the constraint on supply also has a political dimension.
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This has, in effect, lifted any constraint on credit growth, allowing a bigger build-up of private-sector debt.
So far no bill has bounced between the Houses more than 15 times, but one constraint on the process might be finding a different ink to signify the exchange of amendments.
Poets have long extolled the benefits of constraint on their craft (Shakespearean sonnets pack a lot of punch with iambic pentameter).
Given that, SNP ministers say, rUK ministers and the financial system would rationally prefer a stable sterling zone rather than Scotland deploying sterling free from constraint on their northern boundary.
Indeed, speculative excesses in asset prices and credit flows might occur more frequently in future, thanks to the combined effects of financial liberalisation and a monetary-policy framework that concentrates on inflation but places no constraint on credit growth.
That same constraint would apply to the independent Scottish government, which is a significant compromise on the notion of Scottish independence too.
While this constraint weighs most heavily on cash strapped start-ups, even a behemoth like Microsoft sells through distributors and Heinz relies on Kroger to pump out its best-selling ketchup.
GE, on the other hand, decided to focus on one turbine size that met the needs of markets where tight spaces were not a constraint and devoted resources to optimizing the efficiency of that turbine model.
The upcoming debate on the debt limit offers the perfect opportunity for Congress to stop playacting and put a real budget constraint into effect.
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