Sentence examples for good straitjacket from inspiring English sources

But "the tyranny of distance", as Carter puts it, worked against them: "It didn't matter how good Straitjacket Fits were; it was two years before we could afford to return".

It was a good job he did, because the straitjacket would not have allowed him to ease austerity in last parliament and halve the deficit instead of clearing it as he had promised.

Theoretical physicist Professor Michael Duff of Imperial College London complained in March that "non-scientists trying to pick winners and constraining researchers with the straitjacket of 'impact' and 'national interests' is neither good science nor good economics".

"Age is just an abstraction, not a straitjacket," the film's Irene says with some bravado.

For most magicians, getting out of a straitjacket marks a right of passage.

Now increasingly that's looking like a non-starter, because you've got people on both sides of the argument saying 'look, why on earth would you want to walk yourself into a legal straitjacket?' It's not just people in the rest of the UK, it's people in the nationalist ranks themselves are saying 'hold on, this is not a good idea'.

A speculative attack on their currencies might wipe out all the good of having to put on Maastricht's monetary and fiscal straitjacket.

The Escape Artist was bound in a straitjacket and locked in a safe.

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

David Blaine, standing up there, is actually as good a magical metaphor for the moment as Houdini, fighting his way out of the straitjacket of immigrant identity toward prosperity, was for his, or David Copperfield, causing whole monuments to disappear while having dubious assignations with supermodels, was for the Gilded Age now in twilight.

But it also puts the Democrats in a straitjacket when it comes to any future proposal for universal health care or universally good schools.