Sentence examples for hamstrung at from inspiring English sources
The British prime minister is seeking an extension, but May remains hamstrung at home and in Brussels.
The agency was certainly hamstrung at the start by the GOP's demand that the CBO first estimate the health-care repeal with an old baseline.
This means that research with the potential to reverse the course of Parkinson's disease or diabetes will be hamstrung, at least in America.
This has left the agency understaffed and hamstrung at the very moment when the markets are plummeting, public confidence is crumbling, and congressional leaders are harrumphing about the effect all this will have on the midterm elections.
Although hamstrung at first by an impossibly large cast of characters (Miller provides a lengthy dramatis personae at the beginning), once it gets going it is both a moving and surprisingly funny caricature of a quintessentially English family.
Though often hamstrung at home by headstrong state lawmakers, an entrenched taxi industry and a city in which even a single bike lane can inspire years of litigation, Mr. Bloomberg has found success overseas in pushing — and financing — a global transportation agenda during his final years as the mayor of New York City.
Otherwise, their bright start faded and prompted Pellegrini to make two substitutions before the hour mark, Martín Demichelis replacing the hamstrung Mangala at half-time and Jesus Navas injecting his pace at the expense of Fabian Delph.
He said that risk-taking was at times hamstrung by the "byzantine, bureaucratic commissioning system" at the corporation.
I look at two women I know from two different generations, both of whom grew up with a crappy stay-at-home mom and a nurturing dad who always had to be at work, hamstrung by traditional gender roles.
That decision has hamstrung many unionization drives at hospitals by leading to litigation about which nurses can unionize.
The result feels hamstrung and anticlimactic: "Look at me well; for I am, I am certainly / Beatrice".
