Sentence examples for hobble them from inspiring English sources

Restrictive planning rules hobble them if they want to open new stores in the suburbs.

Instead of offering soothing words and subsidies, politicians promise to crack down even harder on banks and regulators draft new rules to hobble them further or tax them more.Much of the opprobrium is focused on "casino" investment banking.

Where more progressive laws do exist in theory – Eltahawy cites recent draft legislation against domestic violence in Lebanon – attitudes within the police, legal system and society hobble them in practice.

But that may not be enough to keep the Mets in contention, and it could hobble them in years to come when they try to replace their aging players.

For all the nonsense that some designers talk about loving "strong women", "proud women", "sexy women", and blah di blah di flipping blah, it's notable how fond these same designers are of putting women in clothes that specifically hobble them.

However, far from benefiting designers, the amendment will in fact hobble them, according to Ivan Macquisten, from the Expired Copyright Homeware Organisation, a campaign group set up to oppose the changes.

In young children, malnutrition stunts mental and physical development, later hobbling them at school.

Both secured peace with their unions by vastly expanding benefits, a bargain that eventually hobbled them.

I.B.M. and Microsoft got off more lightly, but the investigations hobbled them for many years.

Yet many companies say the current level is so high it hobbles them in competing with foreign rivals.

It has also hobbled them artistically, and they can't enjoy their own wine without feeling guilty.