straint

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straint

(streɪnt)
n
obsolete pressure or strain
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Handbook of Con straint Programming (Foundations of Artificial Intelligence).
Finances often add another con straint on the opportunities for a sibling of a child with special needs.
The court stated: "Weeks before eleven-year-old, 4'11," 96-pound Brandon Blackmon arrived at the juvenile detention center in Sedgwick, Kansas, officials there made a new purchase: the Pro- Straint Restraining Chair, Violent Prisoner Chair Model RC-1200LX.
Commonly used testosterone medications include Androgel, Depo-Testosterone, Axiron, Testim, Androderm, Fortesta, Delatestryl, Methiest, Testred, Android and Straint. They are often used to treat a condition known as hypogonadism, in which a man's testosterone levels are extremely low.
Conserved amino acid substitutions in West Nile virus isolates, Harris County, Texas, USA, 2002-2012 * Gene C prM E NS1 Straint Year 104 156 159 460 236 52 G NY99 1999 K V V I I T 1 TX114 2002 .
(2009) Knowledge as functional con straint in motor development.
Warfield Rawls writes that, as Durkheim puts it, all social facts must be the result of some relationship to social institutions (in traditional societies social facts of an ordinary everyday kind can be constituted in relation to social institutions): solidarity in the division of labor is a spontaneous process that cannot be produced by constraint, attention should be paid to the emergence of a spontaneous form of social solidarity that will not require external con straint, while constitutive and spontaneous self-regulating practices in modern societies can become an adequate form of social solidarity that does not rest on institutional constraint (the new basis of morality is self-regulating practices).
The QLK-150 is the next generation model of the world-leading docking system from Q''Straint, incorporating easier installation and a dash mounted membrane control unit.
RECORD Study notes daily Write out goals TIME-CON- December 2009 Must accomplish STRAINT within 10 games EVALUATE Look at grades and Receive feedback quizzes each week- each week from see teachers weekly coaches and team- mates REVERSIBLE Prepare for negatives/ I will overcome setback adversity/injury Goals Team Training goal SPECIFIC Win Conference Bench 300lbs MEASURABLE Yes-Win all games I'm at 280lbs now ACCEPTABLE It is always realistic Is it realistic in- to win.
It is understood that Surrey could, if they continue to drag their feet, leave themselves open to legal action on the basis of a 're straint of trade.'
Yet Americans still enjoy a substantially lower rate of violent crime than England, without the "re straint on personal liberty" English governments have seen as necessary.