Sentence examples for feel hamstrung from inspiring English sources
This is a wonderful gift, not least because when public funding is under threat, many arts organisations feel hamstrung by an inability to take risks, artistically as well as financially.
Derbyshire feel hamstrung by not owning their own ground and believe that having access to grants via council backing would help generate larger revenue streams.
One monitor recently broke, and she felt hamstrung.
Until a few years ago, the police felt hamstrung by a City Council and a community that, reflecting their roots from the 1960s, looked askance at authority.
Perhaps it felt hamstrung by the weakness of the criminal provisions of the Mine Safety and Health Act, which are misdemeanors and cover only willful violations of health and safety standards.
Asked about the disciplinary process, Dr. Novello and her aides said they felt hamstrung by what they said were weaknesses in laws regulating the homes.
At a company known for its cautious pace, he has made quick decisions and given more authority to managers who felt hamstrung by the top-down style of the old regime.
What attacks?' " Speaking over dinner in an old hangout of the mafia criminals he used to prosecute, Mr. Dambruoso said he still feels hamstrung by Italy's political realities.
Speaking to Education Secretary Roderick R. Paige at a Senate committee hearing, Democrats said they felt hamstrung by the fast-approaching deadline for writing a bill and the absence of a budget outlining how much Mr. Bush would like to invest in education.
In the 1970s he achieved notoriety with a string of polemical Shakespeare productions – The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Othello, Hamlet – purporting to return the Bard to his popular roots and intended to scandalise the Abonnenten, the ageing, middlebrow season-ticket-holders whose tastes he felt hamstrung the repertoire.
) In making the announcement, Clinton said that he had considered men for the post and that "I never felt hamstrung by any commitment, even though I did want to name a woman Attorney General".
