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In 2020, consumers were flush with stimulus dollars and savings. Now they are much more constrained. – Vivek Pandya	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have lived in a constrained continuum in the sense that I have lived in the same street in London all my life. – Berliner Studio/BEImages/Shutterstock A fuller interview	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others. – Cormac McCarthy	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
The idea that Western fighter aircraft would allow Ukraine to operate combat air sorties over Russian territory in any sort of regular sense is just fantasy, the reality is that Western fighter aircraft will also be very constrained by the surface-to-air threat by Russian ground-based air defense systems, just as the Ukrainians currently are. – Justin Bronk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The policy tools Xi Jinping can use to support Russia is quite limited now, it’s quite constrained, politically, domestic support for Xi has declined dramatically. His third term does not actually start with a rosy picture. – Alfred Wu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Demand for seats on planes is increasing but supply is constrained, leading to higher ticket prices for consumers, if airlines could staff their aircraft more reliably, there would be more flights available, but the labor situation is challenging and adding to inflationary pressures in the industry. – Christopher Raite	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Mr. Archer is obviously disappointed with today’s sentence, and intends to appeal. It is unfortunate that the judge, who has previously expressed concern that Mr. Archer is innocent of the crimes charged and reiterated that belief today, felt that she was constrained not to act on her independent assessment of the evidence. – Matthew Schwartz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Purchase applications, already constrained by elevated sales prices and tight inventory, have also been impacted by these higher rates and declined for the third straight week. – Joel Kan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Higher mortgage rates have quickly shut off refinances, with activity down in six of the first seven weeks of 2022, purchase applications, already constrained by elevated sales prices and tight inventory, have also been impacted by these higher rates and declined for the third straight week. – Joel Kan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We set all-time records for both developed and emerging markets and saw revenue growth across all of our product categories, except for iPad, which we said would be supply constrained, as expected in the aggregate, we experienced supply constraints that were higher than the September quarter. – Tim Cook	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The diversification we're seeing in North Korea is puzzling considering the constrained resources in the country, what we see is really more than 10, around 15, potential nuclear delivery systems under development. It's really remarkable. – Ankit Panda	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They’re not constrained by worries about the Iran deal in the same way that Rouhani was. – Jeffrey Lewis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The investigation is being conducted by the prosecutors in the Attorney General Merrick Garland Attorney's Office and by the FBI field office. We have not constrained them in any way. – Merrick Garland	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're operating within a labor - and supply-constrained economy inside a competitive real estate market, especially in the construction, renovation and closing spaces, pausing new contracts will enable us to focus on sellers already under contract with us and our current home inventory. – Jeremy Wacksman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
With sustained strong demand for ocean shipping around the globe, we will continue to see constrained ocean shipping with higher-than-normal rates and more than usual cargo rollovers. – Pawan Joshi	Found on CNN 2 years ago
At Blue Shield of California, our goal is to work closely with each county, their public health leaders, and state officials to build a vaccine network that is only constrained by the number of vaccines we receive. – Paul Markovich	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Patience is going to be required because we just don't have enough doses, we're really constrained with supply right now. This is an issue at the federal level, the administration has promised to both be more transparent but also to quickly beef up production, so that we'll be able to get more supply here in Los Angeles County. – Barbara Ferrer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It was clear they did make mistakes -- and not just mistakes that happen when you're dealing with a novel virus -- also bureaucratic and politically-motivated errors in how they handled it, these had global consequences. You can never guarantee 100 % transparency. It's not just about any intentional cover-up, you are also constrained with by technology and other issues with a novel virus. But even if they had been 100 % transparent, that would not stop the Trump administration downplaying the seriousness of it. It would probably not have stopped this developing into a pandemic. – Yanzhong Huang	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't believe coal actually has any advantages over renewables, but with renewables' financing constrained post-pandemic, Southeast Asian policymakers may ignore environmental impacts and buckle to the lure of Chinese build and finance coal power plants. – Andrew Affleck	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
In the midst of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is of the utmost importance that there be stable leadership within HHS and that decisions are driven by science and the public health, any leadership changes being made at this time should be executed only to the extent necessary to ensure the Department and its employees are best positioned for the COVID-19 response. Our response to this crisis can not be steady if its leadership is being constantly shuffled and if experts are being constrained or removed when they insist on following the science and sticking to the facts. – Patty Murray of Washington	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Capacity becomes constrained. And, the law of supply and demand hasn't been repealed yet. So, obviously, prices go up as a result, and that's what you're seeing. – Brandon Fried	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I wouldn't because... I believe you should be constrained by the information that those articles are based on. ... If the House wants to start a new impeachment inquiry or pull it back and add additional elements to it, that's their choice to make. – Marco Rubio of Florida	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We were trying to integrate an Olympic-size pool near my house, and we had been constrained to a wading pool in the black community. – Elijah Cummings	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is simply no strong engine for growth in the market. Large economies are constrained by geopolitical uncertainty (Trade War/Brexit), while emerging/developing economies are dealing with this and relatively high prices, we are of course also tracking the Fed fund rates, treasury rates, commodity indices, PMIs, etc, all of which support our concerns on demand. – Richard Gorry	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

In 2020, consumers were flush with stimulus dollars and savings. Now they are much more constrained.

– Vivek Pandya

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have lived in a constrained continuum in the sense that I have lived in the same street in London all my life.

– Berliner Studio/BEImages/Shutterstock A fuller interview

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

– Cormac McCarthy

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

The idea that Western fighter aircraft would allow Ukraine to operate combat air sorties over Russian territory in any sort of regular sense is just fantasy, the reality is that Western fighter aircraft will also be very constrained by the surface-to-air threat by Russian ground-based air defense systems, just as the Ukrainians currently are.

– Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The policy tools Xi Jinping can use to support Russia is quite limited now, it’s quite constrained, politically, domestic support for Xi has declined dramatically. His third term does not actually start with a rosy picture.

– Alfred Wu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Demand for seats on planes is increasing but supply is constrained, leading to higher ticket prices for consumers, if airlines could staff their aircraft more reliably, there would be more flights available, but the labor situation is challenging and adding to inflationary pressures in the industry.

– Christopher Raite

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr. Archer is obviously disappointed with today’s sentence, and intends to appeal. It is unfortunate that the judge, who has previously expressed concern that Mr. Archer is innocent of the crimes charged and reiterated that belief today, felt that she was constrained not to act on her independent assessment of the evidence.

– Matthew Schwartz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Purchase applications, already constrained by elevated sales prices and tight inventory, have also been impacted by these higher rates and declined for the third straight week.

– Joel Kan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Higher mortgage rates have quickly shut off refinances, with activity down in six of the first seven weeks of 2022, purchase applications, already constrained by elevated sales prices and tight inventory, have also been impacted by these higher rates and declined for the third straight week.

– Joel Kan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We set all-time records for both developed and emerging markets and saw revenue growth across all of our product categories, except for iPad, which we said would be supply constrained, as expected in the aggregate, we experienced supply constraints that were higher than the September quarter.

– Tim Cook

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The diversification we're seeing in North Korea is puzzling considering the constrained resources in the country, what we see is really more than 10, around 15, potential nuclear delivery systems under development. It's really remarkable.

– Ankit Panda

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They’re not constrained by worries about the Iran deal in the same way that Rouhani was.

– Jeffrey Lewis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The investigation is being conducted by the prosecutors in the Attorney General Merrick Garland Attorney's Office and by the FBI field office. We have not constrained them in any way.

– Merrick Garland

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're operating within a labor - and supply-constrained economy inside a competitive real estate market, especially in the construction, renovation and closing spaces, pausing new contracts will enable us to focus on sellers already under contract with us and our current home inventory.

– Jeremy Wacksman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With sustained strong demand for ocean shipping around the globe, we will continue to see constrained ocean shipping with higher-than-normal rates and more than usual cargo rollovers.

– Pawan Joshi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

At Blue Shield of California, our goal is to work closely with each county, their public health leaders, and state officials to build a vaccine network that is only constrained by the number of vaccines we receive.

– Paul Markovich

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Patience is going to be required because we just don't have enough doses, we're really constrained with supply right now. This is an issue at the federal level, the administration has promised to both be more transparent but also to quickly beef up production, so that we'll be able to get more supply here in Los Angeles County.

– Barbara Ferrer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It was clear they did make mistakes -- and not just mistakes that happen when you're dealing with a novel virus -- also bureaucratic and politically-motivated errors in how they handled it, these had global consequences. You can never guarantee 100 % transparency. It's not just about any intentional cover-up, you are also constrained with by technology and other issues with a novel virus. But even if they had been 100 % transparent, that would not stop the Trump administration downplaying the seriousness of it. It would probably not have stopped this developing into a pandemic.

– Yanzhong Huang

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I don't believe coal actually has any advantages over renewables, but with renewables' financing constrained post-pandemic, Southeast Asian policymakers may ignore environmental impacts and buckle to the lure of Chinese build and finance coal power plants.

– Andrew Affleck

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In the midst of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is of the utmost importance that there be stable leadership within HHS and that decisions are driven by science and the public health, any leadership changes being made at this time should be executed only to the extent necessary to ensure the Department and its employees are best positioned for the COVID-19 response. Our response to this crisis can not be steady if its leadership is being constantly shuffled and if experts are being constrained or removed when they insist on following the science and sticking to the facts.

– Patty Murray of Washington

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Capacity becomes constrained. And, the law of supply and demand hasn't been repealed yet. So, obviously, prices go up as a result, and that's what you're seeing.

– Brandon Fried

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I wouldn't because... I believe you should be constrained by the information that those articles are based on. ... If the House wants to start a new impeachment inquiry or pull it back and add additional elements to it, that's their choice to make.

– Marco Rubio of Florida

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We were trying to integrate an Olympic-size pool near my house, and we had been constrained to a wading pool in the black community.

– Elijah Cummings

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is simply no strong engine for growth in the market. Large economies are constrained by geopolitical uncertainty (Trade War/Brexit), while emerging/developing economies are dealing with this and relatively high prices, we are of course also tracking the Fed fund rates, treasury rates, commodity indices, PMIs, etc, all of which support our concerns on demand.

– Richard Gorry

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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