Last week, Madison's chancellor, Carolyn A. Martin, told the Wisconsin Board of Regents that she was hamstrung by state control.
Hamstrung by a state pension crisis that only continues to get worse, the state is preparing to cut some $300 million from its education budget and is considering making the 2011 income tax increase permanent.
But Haley is hamstrung by a state law that prevents the Confederate flag from being removed without a two-thirds majority vote from the state General Assembly.
She could be hamstrung if the state doesn't provide some new money for rehabilitation, and it's unlikely to.
Many blame wider post-war corruption, which has long hamstrung the Lebanese state's attempts to deliver basic public services.
Sort of, because the Atlantic Yards project also exemplifies how the city, in this case hamstrung by the state, got planning backward, trying to eke public benefits from private interests awarded public subsidies and too much leeway.
The state is hamstrung by these county political warlords.
Limited budgets are affecting all historically black colleges, and Grambling is further hamstrung by cutbacks in state funding, Caldwell said.
That's because they have to appeal to a wider swath of voters, many in states where the law is deeply unpopular or hamstrung by problems with a state exchange, rather than (often gerrymandered) House districts.
