Sentence examples for tight straitjacket from inspiring English sources

The study also suggests it's not so easy to dream up models of dark matter that don't run afoul of data already taken, Schuster says: "All of this has to be done in a very tight straitjacket".

Enron was originally a natural gas pipeline company, swaddled like all such companies in a tight regulatory straitjacket.

The commission has since struggled to hold the pact together against criticism that the rules put too tight a straitjacket on national economic policy.

"Leveson's remedy is to terminate centuries of bold, brassy, often vulgar and disreputable — but also brave and important — British journalism and dress the press in a tight, clumsy straitjacket of his own manufacture," the columnist and former editor Max Hastings wrote in The Daily Mail.

With a vote in favour of independence safely in his pocket, the Scottish first minister would no doubt be prepared to slip into a seemingly tight financial straitjacket – knowing that his Houdini skills remain formidable – as long as Cameron hands over most of the oil and only a small part of the UK's debt.

BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson said it was "a very political speech from a man in a very tight economic straitjacket".

Harmonisation need not mean a straitjacket of uniformity.

But if the economic straitjacket stays tight, says a senior European diplomat, "in the long term I think the situation will be disastrous".Squeezing HamasThe pressure on Hamas could become fierce, especially if Egypt at last plugs, as Israel has demanded for months, the smuggling tunnels under its border with Gaza, slowing the flow not just of weapons but of money for Hamas's militants.

It is the damage done to us by growing up strapped inside a cultural straitjacket – a tight-fitting, one-size restraint imposed on us at birth – that leaves no room to grow.

Like Shatner, Dyer's persona has ossified into a cartoonish straitjacket that gets tighter the more he tries to wriggle free of it.

Don't forget the red floppy wide-brimmed hat! Outfit two is much like a leather straitjacket and is as skin tight as they come.