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the hamstrung
verb
Past of hamstring
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A defence shorn of the hamstrung Andreas Christensen merely disintegrated.
By the time the writer reached Central Park she was among the hamstrung and blistered.
Booked CF Diego Costa 6/10 The gamble to start the hamstrung striker backfired.
The second half, however, turned into an old cliché, with the hamstrung team playing as if it had the advantage.
Deceptively, Boro had begun on a bad note, the hamstrung Ben Gibson limping off inside 30 seconds.
What better place to ponder the hamstrung future of mankind than an island that encapsulates our ability to kill ourselves through damaging our environment?
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It is a peculiarly vicious cycle: the more hamstrung legislators are, the more direct democracy (through initiatives) trumps representative democracy, and the more unworkable the system becomes.
The environmental group Greenpeace says the U.S. deliberately hamstrung the talks.
Their capture had left Turkey, a member of the NATO military alliance and a key US ally in the Middle East, hamstrung in its response to the Sunni insurgents.
The delay has irked some sideline strategists who assert that the politicians have hamstrung the warriors.
Bad weather, congestion on the runway, hamstrung air-traffic control, computer failures and the late arrival of the incoming flight all turn air travel into a lottery.
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