Policymakers should consider developing new rules that constrain the ability of highly indebted companies to borrow, the fund said.

Limitations on knowledge, understanding, and computational capability constrain the ability of decision makers to identify optimal choices.

The increased risk of prosecution constrains the ability of commanders to respond to fast-moving situations on the battlefield.

This further constrains their ability to save for a deposit.

Advertising revenue has slipped 10 per cent this year and circulation 5 per cent, while the company's debt constrains her ability to do more deals.

Oil stocks fell because of fears that new quarantine measures could further constrain demand.

Restoring the banking sector will necessarily mean that their living standards fall further, thereby constraining demand and imperilling recovery.

The short side of the market dominates, with limited quantity demanded constraining supply in the first case and limited quantity supplied constraining demand in the second.

Mature trees can reach 10m in height and 6m in spread, so try growing it in a pot to constrain growth.

If high taxes constrain growth, there may not be many proceeds to share out.

Many economies are still de-leveraging, and that might constrain growth and profits, particularly in the developed economies, where leverage has been high.

In so doing, it explains the reasons why many of the current worldwide efforts to reduce governmental deficits will inevitably make them worse and constrain growth and employment.

As those improvements come in, further outperformance becomes more difficult, while some have suggested that debt stuck stubbornly at about 1 billion has constrained growth.

Had it not been constrained by a lack of capacity, last week's 20% sales growth would have been five times higher.

Other developers may be constrained by the lack of cash from the banks.

There have been failings, but their freedom of action has been constrained by the lack of coherent direction from politicians and the inheritance of institutional structures from the past.

The group said that the short-term outlook for the housing market would be constrained by a lack of mortgages.

Its position in the market in the southeast, where production has in the past been constrained by a lack of skilled labour and costs have risen, also depresses those returns.