Sentence examples for tie your hands from inspiring English sources

"You don't want to put out rules that make you look vacuous and you don't want to put out rules that tie your hands," Mr. Bradfield said.

In an interview years later with Australian immigration authorities, Abdellatif is able to recall the methods of torture with chilling detail: "They would tie your hands behind your head and dangle you from a bar.

But he understands that if there were a deal where you could get five or six dollars of spending cuts for a dollar of tax increase, that's a good deal to get, and it is not good policy to tie your hands in advance".

And if you didn't work hard enough the guards would take you in the bathroom and tie your hands behind your back and put a pressure hose in your face and hold it there until you'd sputter and you couldn't breathe".

"How often did he tie your hands behind your back?" "Every time".

"They would tie your hands to four stakes, then whip you with a cat-o'-nine-tails.

"It was like having someone tie your hand behind your back," she said.

Samuel Tombs, UK economist at consultancy Capital Economics, said: "There is little merit in economic terms of tying your hands so far in the future.

When your mother spilled your brother's secret, she put you in a devil of a spot: driving a wedge between you and him, and unfairly tying your hands.

"If you had a situation where Mexico is significantly depleting the aquifer and the aquifer is not being significantly depleted in Texas, it pretty much ties your hands on the Texas side in the long term, to manage that resource," he said.

"We want to make sure there is some surviving document that influences the last piece, to make sure the last piece fits in with all the prior pieces and the Libeskind master plan," Mr. Betts said, "but not in a too restrictive, rigorous, tying your hands behind your back kind of way".