Sentence examples for policy straitjacket from inspiring English sources
What the crisis really demonstrates, however, is the dangers of putting yourself in a policy straitjacket.
And the troubles of the banks are largely responsible for putting the Irish government in a policy straitjacket.
The crisis would make it harder for Germany and other core members to sell the idea to voters that "bailouts are not a free lunch - they come with a policy straitjacket", it added.
He freed the country of the enormously harmful policy straitjacket imposed by the International Monetary Fund following the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and promoted programs that directly addressed the needs of marginalized Thais.
Meanwhile the euro's fiscal-policy straitjacket is exacerbating Germany's downturn.Crying into their beerThe European Central Bank likes to blame all of Germany's economic woes on its structural rigidities.
On the one hand, it gets all the upsides of E.U. membership, such as enhanced trade links and more foreign investment; on the other, it is excluded from the curse of Europe, which is the possibility of getting trapped in an economic-policy straitjacket.
But, in the view of one of the world's leading economists, who is also a former top policy maker, the fiscal straitjacket constructed by European leaders to avoid the need for a rerun of the Greek problems in other countries may create fresh issues in the euro zone.
Not only does the Treaty explicitly forbid the European Central Bank (ECB) from consulting national governments on the desirable balance of monetary and fiscal policies, it also seeks to constrain fiscal policies within a common statutory straitjacket (reinforced by the Orwellian 'Stability Pact' - a device for enhancing instability).
Managers at F.B.I. headquarters misinterpreted the policy, turning it into a straitjacket for their own investigators.
They were forced into a golden straitjacket, limiting their policy options to propitiate the long bond.
Aid carries with it the poison pill of conditionality that forces the opening of the markets to privatisation of state assets, and the straitjacket of monetarist policies.
