institutional constraint

collocation in English

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institutional
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən.əl/
us
/ˌɪn.stəˈtuː.ʃən.əl/
relating to ...
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constraint
noun
uk
/kənˈstreɪnt/
us
/kənˈstreɪnt/
something that controls what you do by keeping you within ...
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(Definition ofinstitutionalandconstraintfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Though noinstitutionalconstraintto illegal felling operates, social norms are present.
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What channelled the outcome away from redistribution, and towards investment, wasinstitutionalconstraint.
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And, again, decision makers backed into a dramatic intertemporal transfer only as their distributive efforts hit the walls ofinstitutionalconstraint.
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Village elections set up aninstitutionalconstrainton township leaders, who cannot dismiss village chiefs at their will.
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Village elections create aninstitutionalconstrainton township leaders, who cannot dismiss village chiefs at their will.
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This can often enable institutional constraints to be bypassed.
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Once nature became "interpretable," however, it was drawn into the interplay between the freedom to interpret and the institutional constraints upon interpretation.
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I focus here, however, on the institutional constraints on groups' efforts to externalize their long-term burdens.
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Each was forced into the final outcome by the logic of long-run optimization within institutional constraints.
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Feasibility and desirability can be framed, when appropriate, in terms of institutional constraints and policy precedents.
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What is lost is a sense of the institutional constraints under which the various colonial players operated.
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The institutional constraints faced by the lessors is lifted and the modifications to the existing institutions are discussed later in the paper.
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This paper makes an attempt to develop these analyses further to see the outcome of citizens' actions within the institutional constraints of the developing countries.
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Second, the need for site-specific innovations that address farmer and market preferences and the diversity in the policy and institutional constraints, all which affect adoption.
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Our group facing a long-term problem thus confronts the task of optimizing under institutional constraints.
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This has been combined with the creation of a relatively unfavourable electoral system, the product of institutional constraints imposed by the restrictive terms of transition.
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This is because of the manner in which social divisions interconnect, and due to institutional constraints on the behaviour of people within those divisions.
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As we make clear below, our analysis is based on the distinction between political agency (represented by government partisanship) and institutional constraints (represented by corporatism).
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Lastly, lawmakers often operate under binding legal and institutional constraints.
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But for now, their coexistence owes more to institutional constraints than any fundamental process of ideological transformation.
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