Sentence examples for a straitjacket on from inspiring English sources

It imposes a straitjacket on growth".

'I was put in a straitjacket on the isolation ward.

"If you do this via a treaty, are you putting a straitjacket on innovation?" The I.T.U.

Video games put more of a straitjacket on imagination, he complains.

The association believes that to be a straitjacket on its marketing.

"Bung a straitjacket on them" is a last resort, reserved for the most serious cases.

A few of the highlights of my thrilling adventure: being bathed in the warm glow of cinematic blue light in the cabaret, reading disturbing chalkings on an observational medical table, and a padded cell with occult symbols ripped into wall with a straitjacket limp on the floor at my feet (which I promptly put on and spooked fellow theatergoers with).

The pact, once seen as a means of imposing German rectitude on others, today looks more like a straitjacket for the Germans themselves.

But terry so dense it can feel like a straitjacket is on the wane.

It makes sense that she would strap a straitjacket back on to trap the terrorists who had committed an unpardonable crime.

Instead, it wants companies to adopt a series of broad principles on pay and it intends to make it easier for shareholders to ensure that they do so.This approach will infuriate pitchfork populists, who were hoping the Obama administration would impose a regulatory straitjacket on corporate pay after an outcry earlier this year over hefty bonuses dished out at firms rescued with taxpayers' cash.