Sentence examples for in its straitjacket from inspiring English sources

The moon struggled in its straitjacket: a tremor like that of an earthquake caused avalanches of empty cans to slide down from the mountain of refuse.

In a debate in Iowa in August, all eight presidential candidates said that even if the Democrats were to offer $10 of spending cuts for every dollar of increased taxes, they would turn such an offer down.One of the things that keeps the party in its straitjacket is the tea-party movement.

It was what was left to us, the daytime being the realm of the "real" world, a world that has very little tolerance for people who don't fit the mold of middle-class respectability and who, in fact, reject its straitjacket.

But as China forges ahead with its transition to a market economy, Vietnam remains far more wary, still caught in its Marxist-Leninist straitjacket and not sure it wants to wriggle out.

Mr. Rajoy is also putting in place a straitjacket to control the borrowing of the country's profligate regional governments.

It's as simple and ingenious as one would expect from the man who, with all the young guns of the Nouvelle Vague, freed cinema from its studio straitjacket in the 1960s.

Tied in a straitjacket of its own making, it only whispers how some of its 34 member countries might implement a series of technical measures, which it meekly says may provide support for jobs and growth "at the margins".

"This is a legitimate effort to untie the knot in the straitjacket of Brazilian labor law and thus increase the availability of jobs in our country," the weekly newsmagazine Veja concluded in its current issue.

Young Journeyman Jack found an enigma wrapped in a conundrum-in-a-straitjacket.

Then he crosses them: "Actually, I'm usually in a straitjacket... " It's true that Creed has very undancey body language.

By the mid-1930s, the corps had done its job, putting the river in a straitjacket of levees.