straitjacket

In a nod to business leaders, he has promised to shield entrepreneurs "from an unbearable fiscal and regulatory straitjacket".

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

“I feel trapped in a tuxedo, like I have claustrophobia,” Almodóvar says, hugging his body as if he’s wearing a straitjacket.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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

It makes the whole project less overwhelming — more a compass than a straitjacket.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2025

Perhaps the place freed him from a straitjacket of grief.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

As Geoff Dyer stresses in his penetrating introduction, Lawrence ignores genre straitjackets as he blends travel writing, memoir, philosophical musings, storytelling and a novelist’s flair for portraiture and description.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2019

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

The report also noted the use of straitjackets and Dr Milner's patchy record keeping; both were against standard practice.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2019

She learns surveillance techniques, performs backflips, and masters the removal of handcuffs and straitjackets.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

Chastain may not wear a corset, but her Nora is straitjacketed all the same.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023

“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

Today, the Mississippi is little more than a massive canal, straitjacketed by earthen walls and traversed by massive freighters moving cargo bound for places as far north as Wisconsin.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 2021

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