straitjacket
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As I have written before, Hoover Dam made today’s West, but also strapped it into the straitjacket of an implacable water shortage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Locking money into a restricted account felt like voluntarily returning to the kind of financial straitjacket they just escaped, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
He was seen as a deft negotiator of the centre ground, triangulating his way out of the straitjacket of traditional left-right politics.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
It makes the whole project less overwhelming — more a compass than a straitjacket.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2025
I looked over at the next desk and saw a girl sitting there, also wearing a straitjacket.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
These included freeing himself from chains, ropes, and straitjackets under water.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025
He also became an escape artist in the manner of Harry Houdini, thrilling crowds by extricating himself from straitjackets, bank safes and jails.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2020
There were straitjackets that looked like giant coveralls, straitjacket smocks, straitjacket anoraks.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2019
To start: Immobile models were conveyed down a moving runway wearing white canvas straitjackets - the most extreme expression of the uniforms that Alessandro Michele called “a strong sign of oppression.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2019
She learns surveillance techniques, performs backflips, and masters the removal of handcuffs and straitjackets.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
“Cape Coral is literally straitjacketed by the sins of the grandfathers: the ‘Mad Men’ of the ’50s selling lots, never really thinking beyond Grandma and Grandpa wanting to retire.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022
He wanted to be able to make his own entertainment, he told me, because so much around him felt straitjacketed, “trying to make different versions of the same thing.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
These steep-sided, straitjacketed streams lost the ability to spill onto their floodplains and recharge aquifers.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2018
And so it was, that justice handcuffed, straitjacketed, blistered, and impartial, sent from its bed of torture a beam through Cooper's tough hide to his inner heart.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
Mr. Wright analyzes China’s economic struggles through the lens of its financial system, arguing that the country’s problems are bigger and more straitjacketing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
In 1939, as the straitjacketing of the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
In other words, Cohen accuses traditional sensory science of artificially straitjacketing tasters in order to achieve a false objectivity.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2018
They seemed to enjoy the idea, he added, “that these forces were straitjacketing them, whether it was true or not.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2012
The straitjacketing of the Mississippi began with an obnoxious Army engineer named Andrew Humphreys, who lost 3,000 soldiers in the charge at Fredericksburg and later marveled, "I felt more like a god than a man!"
From Time ● May 12, 2011
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