Quentin was not a man overly constrained by the bounds of loyalty or by a compulsion for honest dealing.

The word relaxed refers to the notion that serial programs are actually overly constrained by implicit serial dependencies (such as the program counter) and that one can introduce as much parallelism as possible without removing the ability to run sequentially.

Kenya's development has probably not been overly constrained by debt per se, though the strings tied to the loans have limited policy choice.

At both extremes of this relationship, one has either an overly constrained market system dominated by other societal institutions or a "market society" ruled by market actors, values and processes.

Traditional static languages require heavyweight toolchains and a coding style that can feel inflexible and overly constrained.

At the Venice Conference, the French foreign minister, Christian Pineau agreed to intergovernmental negotiations, with three provisos: the economic community was to be established in stages; customs tariffs should be reduced by only 30 percent; and national governments should not be overly constrained with regard to economic policy.

Modernizers say that its prosperous and aggressive economic environment has been overly constrained by laws originating with the advent of Islam nearly 14 centuries ago.