straitjacket
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In a nod to business leaders, he has promised to shield entrepreneurs "from an unbearable fiscal and regulatory straitjacket".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
We would stop trying to straitjacket this into something more predictable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
For all its aspiration of freedom, it is a straitjacket that cannot be removed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Locking money into a restricted account felt like voluntarily returning to the kind of financial straitjacket they just escaped, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
And if you think having Problems in American Democracy is a fun way to end the day, you need a snug-fitting straitjacket.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
Humanmade levees, dikes and other flood-control measures act like straitjackets on these rivers.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
Montgomery’s school board president, William R. Thomas III, said, “We’ve been concerned in recent years with the stereotyped nature of school architecture,” referring to the “brick and mortar straitjackets of education.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
Then the lights went up, the walkways started moving, and out came the models — barefoot, staring catatonically ahead, in white clothing that resembled nothing so much as straitjackets of many styles.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2019
To start: Immobile models were conveyed down a moving runway wearing white canvas straitjackets - the most extreme expression of the uniforms that Alessandro Michele called “a strong sign of oppression.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2019
She learns surveillance techniques, performs backflips, and masters the removal of handcuffs and straitjackets.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
Try that as one of 47 straitjacketed senators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022
At a time when theater, the fabulous invalid, is straitjacketed by the pandemic, it’s heartening and a little wistful-making to have it recalled in all its messy midcentury glory.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022
These steep-sided, straitjacketed streams lost the ability to spill onto their floodplains and recharge aquifers.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2018
And so it was, that justice handcuffed, straitjacketed, blistered, and impartial, sent from its bed of torture a beam through Cooper's tough hide to his inner heart.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
In 1939, as the straitjacketing of the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
In other words, Cohen accuses traditional sensory science of artificially straitjacketing tasters in order to achieve a false objectivity.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2018
They seemed to enjoy the idea, he added, “that these forces were straitjacketing them, whether it was true or not.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2012
The straitjacketing of the Mississippi began with an obnoxious Army engineer named Andrew Humphreys, who lost 3,000 soldiers in the charge at Fredericksburg and later marveled, "I felt more like a god than a man!"
From Time ● May 12, 2011
We end up rooting for him and against ourselves--since all those straitjacketing studio decisions are based on a thorough knowledge of what we will pay for at the box office.
From Time Magazine Archive
