Sentence examples for a straitjacket of the from inspiring English sources

But it is not just that we find ourselves in a straitjacket of the past that we cannot shake.

Representative Bill Goodling, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the House Education Committee, said Mr. Clinton should look elsewhere for his legacy, accusing the president of "taking a Washington-knows-best approachamperingmpering states with a "straitjacket" on the use of federal grants.

On Tuesday, Mark Correia, 18, got strapped into a straitjacket on the set of Global News' "The Morning Show," and plans on remaining in the contraption for two full weeks before attempting his escape.

The Scots finance secretary added: "What we've essentially got is a chancellor putting a straitjacket on the public finances of Scotland, restricting our room for manoeuvre and restricting the hard cash - real money - we can spend".

The new regulatory tilt threatens to tie up innovation in a straitjacket of bureaucratic nannying while slowing the global economy, they say.

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

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

By the mid-1930s, the corps had done its job, putting the river in a straitjacket of levees.

Political leaders across Europe have begun to push back against the campaign of Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany to put the Continent's economies into a straitjacket of unrelenting fiscal austerity.

We are not making the most of their talents if we put them in a straitjacket of party loyalty.

Harmonisation need not mean a straitjacket of uniformity.