Sentence examples for straitjacket over from inspiring English sources

There is a fine stunt tradition in New York -- the great Houdini hung upside down in a straitjacket over Broadway.

There was a hint of lockdown, of them squeezing the space in midfield and throwing a straitjacket over Neymar, Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi.

It begins with Teller suspended upside down in a straitjacket over a bed of spikes; it ends up with Penn on a darkened stage eating fire and talking about how at the Franklin County Fair he always felt himself drawn into the sideshow tent to see the freaks and fire-eaters while his high-school buddies waited outside.

"It wasn't a concreted-over straitjacket".

"The Village was freedom, it wasn't a concreted-over straitjacket," he said.

"Recent events in Ukraine and the Middle East have served to highlight the vulnerability of our energy supplies and the political straitjacket that results from our over-dependence on fossil fuel imports from these volatile regions," the UK's former climate and energy security envoy, Rear Admiral Morisetti, said.

Some had a kind of fur straitjacket cum life preserver harness over their clothes.

It was not as spectacular a stunt as, say, the time he extricated himself from a straitjacket while hanging upside down over Niagra Falls, but it made his point: namely that homeopathic remedies are quackery.

But plot needn't be a straitjacket, rather a sturdy skeleton over which the beautiful drapery of dialogue, characterisation, period and location can be shown off to best advantage.

By validating the revolution and pledging early free elections, the Shah presumably hoped to put a straitjacket on the soldiers even as he handed over power to them.

** By validating the revolution and pledging early free elections, the Shah presumably hoped to put a straitjacket on the soldiers even as he handed over power to them.