Sentence examples for a rigid straitjacket of from inspiring English sources

"It tries to impose a rigid straitjacket of uniformity on countries as different as Finland and Greece.

Those who raise the spectrum of a "super-state" crushing national sensitivities, or of a "rigid straitjacket imposing uniformity on countries", conveniently forget this.

He designed a tactical straitjacket to squeeze Barcelona out of its pass-and-move supremacy.

In a statement released by the education department (DfE), Oates said: "Publishing content year by year is not some rigid straitjacket.

So album leakers adhered to a rigid code of silence.

He has a rigid definition of what constitutes right-handedness.

It's a straitjacket of a structure, against which some of the contestants strain.

"So the European single market, which was seen as a source of prosperity, is presented as a straitjacket of red tape".

Harmonisation need not mean a straitjacket of uniformity.

It crams the complex politics of the time into a straitjacket of modern political correctness: empires are bad and freedom fighters good.

Too often, great works of literature arrive on screen weighed down by their reputations, immobilized in a straitjacket of cultural prestige.