Verb
To violate; to ravish.
To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.
To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.
To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress.
To compel; to force; to necessitate; to oblige.
To produce in such a manner as to give an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWar - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. George Washington
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient. Geoffrey West
If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever. George Whitefield
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. Robert Evans
Government power has been the unavoidable constant in life. Government decrees and the people obey, but not here. We have no king or queen, we have no dictator, we the people constrain government. Ted Cruz
A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation. So it is not necessary to use force to constrain the convict to good behavior, the madman to calm, the worker to work, the schoolboy to application, the patient to the observation of the regulations. Michel Foucault