Sentence examples for straitjacket in from inspiring English sources

What if Matt had not managed to get out of the straitjacket in time?

There's a faint hint of straitjacket in that shape, a resemblance that will make more sense later.

With his breath labored and his arms crossed like a chrysalis, he told the audience that if he did not escape from the straitjacket in a certain amount of time something unfortunate would happen to him.

The Washington consensus reigned supreme: persuade governments to put on "the golden straitjacket", in Tom Friedman's phrase, and prosperity would follow.Today big government is back with a vengeance: not just as a brute fact, but as a vigorous ideology.

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.

In part, Pauli blames businesses' lack of vision: "They are stuck in a mindset of cash-flow, supply change management and core business [which] makes it difficult for companies to get out of the straitjacket in which they're in".

"There's a general sense that we're not in a straitjacket anymore in terms of the discourse, and we're no longer just a monolith".

They make out like people are put in straitjackets, thrown in padded cells and just left to die or rot.

And Championship clubs have this week voted to join the other two leagues in adopting some form of financial straitjacket - in this case, by adopting their own Financial Fair Play rules based on Uefa's regulations in this area.

BTW: Does that straitjacket come in neon?

I'm handcuffed, and in a straitjacket, and locked in a steamer trunk that was frozen in a block of ice and thrown into the East River.