Sentence examples for straightjacket from inspiring English sources

In the former Soviet Union, where the old Communist system tried to warp every form of culture to fit within its ideological straightjacket, protest singing is often especially charged.

A new company called Yondr (based, of course, in San Francisco), has created a cell-phone straightjacket for concertgoers.

Bob Crow is correct to label the European Union as a free-market straightjacket increasing misery for the continent's majority (Exit Europe from the left, 18 May), but he is mistaken to imagine we can improve matters by leaving.

Though the pleated ruffle that drapes in a minaret shape over Chrissy's bare back is breathtaking, de la Renta thinks the whole thing is 'a little bit like a straightjacket.

"Europe, in its sort of corset, its straightjacket of a one-size-fits-all monetary policy, and the peripheral space around the Mediterranean of 25% youth unemployment.

Mourinho seemed pretty pleased with himself too bearing in mind the tactical straightjacket that meant all of United's better performers recently – not just Fellaini but also Ashley Young, Juan Mata and Ander Herrera – were subdued.

These are real heart-on-sleeve performances; even heart-on-straightjacket performances.

It is not about the absence of religion but the absence of religious power, a freedom from patriarchal straightjackets that might stifle our lives, dreams and aspirations.

But it also downplays the possibility that the left goes too far in that effort, straightjacketing the financial system with onerous regulation for years to come.Mr Mead is surely right that talk of the end of American capitalism is hysterical.

But rote recitation inhibits the ability to think beyond diagnostic straightjackets.

Several of his dresses, fitted like straightjackets, were padded with conical bras and quilted cones that protruded from the shoulders, backside and hips.