Sentence examples for straitjacket control from inspiring English sources

"Total, stifling, straitjacket control is not possible unless they want China to be North Korea, which they don't".In contrast to the Harvard team's approach, researchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed a program that concentrates solely on China's most popular microblogging site, Sina Weibo.

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

In 2001, for example, under a previous director, the Essex County Youth House came under fire for using long-term isolation as well as straitjackets to control its children.

But while applying for jobs, he also realized that some facilities mistreated the elderly by overmedicating them, putting them in "chemical straitjackets that controlled their behavior".

The straitjacket that had controlled creativity began to loosen.

"Deregulation broke the natural gas straitjacket system of price controls that was so dysfunctional it really discouraged development [of new gas supplies]," says Daniel Yergin, chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates.

Instead she seems mannered and controlled, an actor in a loose straitjacket.

Not content with the bookshop floor as his stage, Colfer has gone one further and taken over a West End theatre over the coming half-term week, in what looks like a growing trend for writers to break out of the straitjacket of the literary festival or traditional signing and take control of their own promotional activities.

That brutal aesthetic can be a straitjacket: plays would be rejected if they weren't sufficiently provocative or out of control.

The current system allows control-freak chancellors and ideologues to put government and politics in a straitjacket.

For eight months, during which time he was completely under the control of his voices, spirits and presences, he was kept under restraint, either in a straitjacket or tied down in bed.