Integrity is not just a promise to others but also a constraint on oneself.
In the tone of each there was an obscure constraint, and something in Mynors' smile of salute to Beatrice showed that he too shared it.
Listening there with beating pulses, and an unaccountable, undefined apprehension, I heard him pass through all the schoolrooms, clashing the doors impatiently as he went; I heard him invade the refectory which the "lecture pieuse" was now holding under hallowed constraint; I heard him pronounce these words—"Où est Mademoiselle Lucie?
This growing revolt of sixty against one, soon became oppressive enough; my command of French being so limited, and exercised under such cruel constraint.
But, in spite of all this, Anne felt that there was always a barrier between Leslie and herself—a constraint that never wholly vanished.
She was right, for Leslie's air of constraint suddenly vanished.
Uncles and aunts paid only short visits now; of course, they could not stay to meals, and the constraint caused by Mr Tulliver's savage silence, which seemed to add to the hollow resonance of the bare, uncarpeted room when the aunts were talking, heightened the unpleasantness of these family visits on all sides, and tended to make them rare.
With Tom the interval had seemed still longer, for he had been seated in irksome constraint on the edge of a sofa directly opposite his uncle Pullet, who regarded him with twinkling gray eyes, and occasionally addressed him as "Young sir.
The housekeeper had told him without the least constraint of manner that since Mr.
Lydgate found it more and more agreeable to be with her, and there was no constraint now, there was a delightful interchange of influence in their eyes, and what they said had that superfluity of meaning for them, which is observable with some sense of flatness by a third person; still they had no interviews or asides from which a third person need have been excluded.
Set a time constraint.
But the globalisation that began around 1990 and led to the astonishing rise — in fact, re-emergence — of China and other emerging market giants reflected a relaxation of the constraint on ideas.
If that is so lithium will become more expensive to the point at which its cost becomes a barrier and a constraint on electric vehicle sales.
" "It's become a beautiful constraint.
As an innovation consultant and entrepreneur, I was recently given a sneak peek at a new book on innovation called A Beautiful Constraint.
"The new move is again aiming at relaxing the funding constraint of smaller banks to encourage more lending to small businesses who are often crowded out by state-owned banks," said Minggao Shen, head of China research at Citigroup.
The post-it note is beneficial because it has a size constraint.
He, however, only laughed at her advice, saying, that his father had always kept him in too great constraint, and that now he rejoiced at his new-found liberty.
So when they were alone the king's daughter said to her eleven girls, show some constraint, and do not look round at the spinning-wheels.
