The formation of Nato the following year also provided the first measure of unity as the sudden intensification of the cold war imposed a form of geopolitical straitjacket.
And Championship clubs have this week voted to join the other two leagues in adopting some form of financial straitjacket - in this case, by adopting their own Financial Fair Play rules based on Uefa's regulations in this area.
The euro instead became a kind of straitjacket.
We have sufficient political latitude to solve this problem .Observers fear that backing could evaporate if Rouhani is unable to deliver swift economic improvements in the form of loosening the sanctions which straitjacket on Iran.
Self-consciously avant-garde writing is a ready victim, too, of the age-old paradox of a movement that, in seeking to displace one form of artifice (in this case, the realist straitjacket), ends up by putting another one in its place.
This article was amended on 27 July 2015 to correct the spelling of straitjacket.
And though Mr. Mason looks perfectly normal from the chest up, horrible vestiges of his past stick to him, literally, in the form of a huge mass of loose skin choking him like a straitjacket.
"Philosophically, I am less enamoured with securitisation than I was," he told a private equity conference in 2005, likening this form of long-term bond, secured against future cash flows, to a straitjacket.
He acknowledges that post-1967, Godard, who at the time considered himself a Maoist, was trapped in an "ideological straitjacket," but adds that the ideas behind that ideology "provided the foundation for a new, cooperative form of filmmaking" that would inform the rest of Godard's career.
Despite the country's financial straitjacket – and threats by creditors that aid will dry up without further reforms - he pledged that Greeks would see instant relief in the form of funds extracted from a recent auction of private television licences.
