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straitjacket
noun as in restraint
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Example Sentences
“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.
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.
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".
“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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