Sentence examples for on a straitjacket from inspiring English sources

As for theatergoers for whom a return to the fraught home fronts of the '50s feels like putting on a straitjacket, there's always "Cry-Baby," an adaptation of John Waters's 1990 movie about how the rock 'n' roll spirit rips apart staid old Baltimore in 1954.

Ashley Cole, in his most vulnerable moments, used to wonder how he could play with such freedom for Arsenal, then feel as if he had pulled on a straitjacket every time he wore an England shirt.

Video games put more of a straitjacket on imagination, he complains.

Even Interpol, with blinders on and handcuffs on and a straitjacket is not going to do anything," says Tygart.

Mr. Wade, of Senegal, accused Europe of trying to impose on Africa a "straitjacket that does not work".

The conservatives' latest manoeuvre, described on article 50, is to put a straitjacket on the election next February, which had been expected to produce a less hardline parliament.The president, under siege, has two powerful weapons on his side.

On Tuesday, Mark Correia, 18, got strapped into a straitjacket on the set of Global News' "The Morning Show," and plans on remaining in the contraption for two full weeks before attempting his escape.

But personally, I call it a nuisance, a straitjacket on my life, and/or the root of all evil (depending on my mood).

It imposes a straitjacket on growth".

'I was put in a straitjacket on the isolation ward.

"If you do this via a treaty, are you putting a straitjacket on innovation?" The I.T.U.