The government is operating in an economic straitjacket. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Too often, I fear, the straitjacket is what ends up coming across from the opera stage. From Wordnik.com. [All that jazz] Reference
Otherwis known as a straitjacket, she added to herself. From Wordnik.com. [Baby In My Arms]
Pinned to his straitjacket was a tag saying paranoid schizophrenic. From Wordnik.com. [1968]
While it might borrow from the interim constitution, the CA should not operate in a "straitjacket". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Of course, all this is - as George Osborne put it recently - a "straitjacket" on whoever governs our country next. From Wordnik.com. [An indebted nation] Reference
•Free the police and courts from the politically correct straitjacket which is stopping them from doing their jobs properly. From Wordnik.com. [‘Rent A Mob’ Attack Police At BBC TV Centre « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Kudos to you for spelling 'straitjacket' correctly. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
It appears that the one word term 'straitjacket' is linguistically correct and the proper spelling. ohknow. From Wordnik.com. [Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories] Reference
"I was in a three-dimensional straitjacket," says Meier. From Wordnik.com. [A Lavish Place In The Sun] Reference
A Teddy Bear in a straitjacket is now a collector's item. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2005] Reference
I wouldn't want to put us in that kind of a rigid straitjacket. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2007] Reference
The straitjacket that had controlled creativity began to loosen. From Wordnik.com. [Yoani Sanchez: Will a Half Million Laid Off Cubans Find Work in Private Enterprise?] Reference
That now provides a new kind of fiscal straitjacket for Congress. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2001] Reference
If you'd said it in an airport, you'd be in a straitjacket by now. From Wordnik.com. [Beltway Headliners Edition] Reference
Number two, he's here to abrogate the Torah, seeing it as a straitjacket. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Who Is Jesus? - July 6, 2000] Reference
And if a patient resisted that drill, she was eligible for a straitjacket. From Wordnik.com. [Rewriting Life Stories] Reference
Your HMO doctor, in other words, may be practicing medicine in a straitjacket. From Wordnik.com. [Beware Your Hmo] Reference
If I don ` t take my meds soon, someone ` s going to put me in a straitjacket. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2008] Reference
GRACE: I want him in a straitjacket back there in one of those Delta bathrooms. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2006] Reference
If you want your teddy bear in a straitjacket, you'll just have to do it yourself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2005] Reference
"Lieutenant Hansen is wondering whether he should get a straitjacket," Swanson said. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Station Zebra]
But now it's not clear whether that garment was a coronation robe or a straitjacket. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Blast Will Reverberate In Campaign] Reference
First, we must break out of the Reagan-era straitjacket concerning taxes and regulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall of America, Inc.] Reference
Next thing you know I'll be in a straitjacket slobbering my way to a mental institution. From Wordnik.com. [Unprecedented weirdness] Reference
As with many U.S. cities, the national two-party straitjacket is an awkward fit for the District. From Wordnik.com. [Fenty's toughest hurdle? D.C.'s 2-party system.] Reference
It came complete with a straitjacket -- we may have a picture -- there it is -- and commitment papers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2005] Reference
Houdini sometimes worked upside down but he was trying to get out of a straitjacket as fast as possible. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2008] Reference
Some said that I ought to be put into a straitjacket, for I was undoubtedly mad to think of such a thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
After all, it doesn't conform to the Soviet straitjacket style of "socialist realism"; the bull is light blue. From Wordnik.com. [Art In Exile] Reference
"Many feel that anything would be better than the military straitjacket that Musharraf is tailoring for the country.". From Wordnik.com. [Her Eye On The Prize] Reference
If anyone else committed to spend more than 100 percent of something, he'd be put in a straitjacket or arrested for fraud. From Wordnik.com. [Washington's Math Problem] Reference
Hammons offers a photo of Shakur in a straitjacket, his soulful eyes expressing a burden any oppressed person could identify with. From Wordnik.com. [It's A Hip-Hop World] Reference
Between them was their prisoner, a boy with a vacuous face, clad in a straitjacket that seemed to make no difference at all to him. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Twister] Reference
At a crucial moment, his brain had failed him, and now people would have to come in and cart him away and put him in a straitjacket. From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
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