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straitjacket

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“They took her away in a straitjacket, man,” he said in a 2009 interview with The Times.

In a lecture this week, she firmly committed to get debt falling in five years' time, taking on the same self imposed straitjacket that currently constrains the Conservative government.

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The current system "acts as a straitjacket to firms eager to expand, because they end up tiptoeing around it to avoid extra costs," said FSB Wales' Ben Cottam.

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Last month, Morgan said his show was leaving television to focus on the Uncensored YouTube channel, saying that daily, fixed TV schedules have been "an increasingly unnecessary straitjacket".

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“The Supreme Court was clear that Bruen did not create a regulatory straitjacket for states — and we believe that the district court got this wrong,” Bonta’s office said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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