Sentence examples for straitjacket on from inspiring English sources

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.

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

The association believes that to be a straitjacket on its marketing.

"Bung a straitjacket on them" is a last resort, reserved for the most serious cases.

"It tries to impose a rigid straitjacket of uniformity on countries as different as Finland and Greece.

If you've not put much thought into mental health issues or the stigma surrounding them, then in these sorts of situations, you probably won't put any thought into considering how viewers might feel when they see dancers in straitjackets on the stage.

To learn more, see my column Restraining Orders Can Be Straitjackets On Justice (Newark Star-Ledger, 7/28/08).

A few of the highlights of my thrilling adventure: being bathed in the warm glow of cinematic blue light in the cabaret, reading disturbing chalkings on an observational medical table, and a padded cell with occult symbols ripped into wall with a straitjacket limp on the floor at my feet (which I promptly put on and spooked fellow theatergoers with).

The lacquer develops hairline cracks, relaxing its straitjacket grip on the wood.