Constraints: The extent to which an individual's freedom of decision and action is limited by forces outside his or her control.

She too preferred a "solution that guarantees freedom of decision, rather than imposing another obligation, even if in the opposite direction."

That does not mean reducing freedom of action and freedom of decision making in the Member States.

Hospital managers, who will be accountable for meeting their targets, will otherwise be given maximum freedom of decision making.

If a battle-tested fleet admiral is assigned responsibility for administering an entire planet, then he should be granted the greatest possible freedom of decision.

Soul is body plus spirit, and directly connects with the intellect to enable the achievement of happiness by means of the freedom of decision.

It has failed throughout the world, not just in the G.D.R. By contrast, free enterprise means the freedom of decision, personal self-determination and broadly distributed wealth."

If we do not succeed in safeguarding individual MEPs' freedom of decision we cannot claim to be able to accomplish anything for the people of Europe.

I want a stronger European economy, not in opposition to, but in cooperation with the Monetary Fund, on the understanding that each of them retains its freedom of decision and action.

He particularly did not note that Blade's successes came because he was allowed exactly the sort of freedom of decision and movement that Mogaba had been petitioning for for almost two years.

I regard the view of the philosopher Mary Warnock as conclusive on this subject, that an adult's freedom of decision over his or her own body should trump any overriding claim from the state.

A constitutional amendment, which changed the formulation of the role of the Grand Duke in a way that it makes clear that his signature is automatic and he/she has no freedom of decision, was however passed.

"Anyway I am returning the check because Mrs. Macy and I feel that it would in some subtle way hamper us, and curtail our freedom of decision when the time comes to discuss plans for the future."

There is only one real reason for the open or underlying 'no' vote: the Irish people's wish to retain their freedom of decision faced with an invasive Europe, which would become even more so with the Treaty of Nice.

It proposed a new division of responsibility for finance between central and local government, and a structure of regional and national bodies to advise both the Secretary of State and LEAs on management tasks, while leaving considerable freedom of decision with both the LEAs and individual institutions.

"Whereas the earlier Jewish philosophers extended the omniscience of God to include the free acts of man, and had argued that human freedom of decision was not affected by God's foreknowledge of its results, Ibn Daud, evidently following Alexander of Aphrodisias, excludes human action from divine foreknowledge.