straitjacket
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Opinion is divided on whether these are sensible building blocks for the economy which allow living standards to improve, or a "dysfunctional" economic straitjacket.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
For all its aspiration of freedom, it is a straitjacket that cannot be removed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
It makes the whole project less overwhelming — more a compass than a straitjacket.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2025
"When Man City were on top of the game they had a style of play and a freedom. Everybody has a role to play, but Guardiola will not put anyone in a straitjacket."
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025
I’m imagining Dr. Katz calling an ambulance to come get me, teen-sized straitjacket and the works, when my mother comes back out.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
He also became an escape artist in the manner of Harry Houdini, thrilling crowds by extricating himself from straitjackets, bank safes and jails.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2020
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
The report also noted the use of straitjackets and Dr Milner's patchy record keeping; both were against standard practice.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2019
Straitlaced people who go over the edge may find themselves in straitjackets.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022
He wanted to be able to make his own entertainment, he told me, because so much around him felt straitjacketed, “trying to make different versions of the same thing.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Today, the Mississippi is little more than a massive canal, straitjacketed by earthen walls and traversed by massive freighters moving cargo bound for places as far north as Wisconsin.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 2021
Nonetheless, he’s performed yeoman’s work filling out an aging narrative straitjacketed by the exigencies of its author’s legal strategy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2019
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
Though labor and industry grumbled at his straitjacketing of wages and prices, the rise in the cost of living was only 18%, compared to a U.S. rise of 25%.
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