Sentence examples for straitjackets of from inspiring English sources

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Why not free public schools from the straitjackets of state textbooks, externally written curriculums and one-size-fits-all instruction?

At the Olympics we liberate them from the straitjackets of convention and conformity that we too often ask them to wear.

What's so extraordinary about our current politics is the willingness with which all its players accept the straitjackets of pessimism or pettiness.

Others, no longer in the thrall of Marxism, found that their rugged individualism, honed in the tough lime quarries of Robben Island, did not fit easily into the straitjackets of bureaucracy and party discipline.

Or perhaps a little I-know-nothing-I-see-nothing is the typical mind-set of summer, that reverent time when Americans let things slide off their suntan-greasy backs as they lumber toward September, a month far more suitable to the twin straitjackets of anxiety and responsibility.

Through all his work you find the peaceful writing that admirably traces the ugliness of the world; the confidence of the narrative voice, seemingly conventional while eschewing the straitjackets of realism; and the all-pervading violence that informs every situation and eventually explodes.

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Harmonisation need not mean a straitjacket of uniformity.

Life is further tested by the straitjacket of rules.

Disgusted by the straitjacket of success, Frusciante's head flipped.

All were very aware that the straitjacket of Dodd-Frank might make contagion unavoidable.

Thomas Friedman argued that governments had to don the golden straitjacket of market discipline.

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