Straitened

Given this straitened sense of what a democracy can do, it’s not clear why any contemporary movement would take on the task of creating it.

O’Connor’s voice retains its clarity and emphatic power, but it sounds as if it is now straitened by decades of pain.

A Great Awakening and charitable church-planting drive drew millions of citizens into pews and made daily outreach to the lost, the straitened, and the enslaved.

But in a Budget reflecting the straitened state of the Scottish public finances, Finance Secretary Shona Robison decided there were bigger priorities.

Modi went on to speak of how his uncle once suggested that, given his parents’ straitened circumstances, they could try selling wood to burn for cooking.

Despite her straitened circumstances, Tran is a do-gooder who feeds the hungry and nurses the sick or dying.

Richard Cromwell subsisted in straitened circumstances after his resignation, he went abroad and lived in relative obscurity for the remainder of his life.