straitjacket
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The fate of a franchise depends on cramming them into a vast, complex puzzle of resource allocation that’s harder to navigate than a swimming pool in a straitjacket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
In a nod to business leaders, he has promised to shield entrepreneurs "from an unbearable fiscal and regulatory straitjacket".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
For all its aspiration of freedom, it is a straitjacket that cannot be removed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
She presents the pictures out of chronological order, so observers can’t tell whether these plots are returning to nature or being forced back into concrete straitjackets.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2021
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
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
Nonetheless, he’s performed yeoman’s work filling out an aging narrative straitjacketed by the exigencies of its author’s legal strategy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2019
Glass’s lyric setting has often felt straitjacketed by attempts to wedge words into his repetitive musical patterns.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2019
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
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
An elder statesman of U.S. finance this week warned against straitjacketing the nation's rearmament economy with price & wage controls.
From Time Magazine Archive
