Sentence examples for designed to hobble from inspiring English sources

Some countries appear to have taken that message on board, but too many are still drawing up rules that seem designed to hobble business.

Republicans and White House officials fear that the currency issue is a "poison pill" designed to hobble trade negotiations in a way that would prove unacceptable to other countries negotiating the giant Pacific trade bill.

Deputies recently ratified two presidential bills designed to hobble unelected conservative institutions, only for the bills to be rejected by the most egregious of those institutions, a de facto upper house called the Council of Guardians.

Mr. Barak must realize that his own courageous efforts to make peace will be jeopardized unless he gains maximum public support in an open election, not an election designed to hobble the opposition.

Even more regulation comes from abroad, whether it is the new rules agreed in Basel that will force all banks everywhere to reduce the leverage that inflated their profits before the financial crisis, or the rules being drafted by the European Union that seem suspiciously designed to hobble the City and to shift some of its activities to rival financial centres in Paris and Frankfurt.

But opponents say the measures are designed to hobble the agency and give regulated industries more influence and could force researchers to violate privacy rules.

Yes, the documentary and foreign language film categories are hobbled by ridiculous rules that seem designed to exclude some of the best work.

While the "laptop," as a designed object, is an excellent tool, books are what define our early education and creating an electronic book that works and is actively useful seems far more intelligent than the original OLPC, which is a stab at a "less is more" mentality that eventually hobbles the very people it is designed to help.

While the "laptop," as a designed object, is an excellent tool, books are what define our early education and creating an electronic book that works and is actively useful seems far more intelligent than the original OLPC, which was a stab at a "less is more" mentality that eventually hobbles the very people it is designed to help.

Probiotic investigations have been further hobbled by current regulatory requirements, which were designed to serve as the framework for pharmaceutical research.

In the United States, the Moody's review points to a sector that has been hobbled, perhaps permanently, by the introduction of new regulation designed to curb risky types of trading and require banks to hold more capital in reserve.