Word: constraining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep producing the same kind of material, but in the case of Yeah, It's That Easy, the different elements are unsuccessful. G. Love's music incorporates hip-hop, blues, funk, rock, soul and jazz, often within the same song. Somewhat paradoxically, this breadth of influences may serve to constrain, rather than expand, his musical frontier, because after pinpointing a way of incorporating all those elements, there wasn't much he could change without losing one or more of them. Unfortunately, unlike his groundbreaking initial efforts, G. Love & Special Sauce and Coast to Coast Motel, this new recording seems...
Such a move would severely constrain the bank's expansion plans and most likely end the 18-month war between developers and preservationists...
...Peimer says that simply changing gender ratios will not affect people's attitudes and that gender balance will not constrain the activities of radical feminists...
...joke was played by Beijing dictators but permitted by those who attended. Everybody seemed to cajole the Chinese bully, hoping he would stomp on heads more gently. The intimidator did just the opposite. Are we waiting until the Chinese bully grows so big that nobody is able to constrain him? JOANNA YU Surrey, British Columbia...
...constrain ourselves to live out the roles that fate deals us--"I am Chinese, so I must study medicine or ethnicity because that's my responsibility to my family and to my race"--or do we define ourselves, and in so doing, enrich the aggregate definition of being Asian American? Are we truly interested in breaking the mold, or merely being better able to rationalize it? Rationalizing is what these alleged "mold breakers...