straitjacket

Past precedent is important and instructive, but it shouldn’t be a straitjacket.

But the very decision to sell songs to targeted genre fans has turned into an aesthetic straitjacket.

What matters now for Rowhani is whether he can get anything done within the straitjacket imposed by Khamenei.

But they are struggling to overcome the ideological straitjacket that has become the U.S. Congress.

“I hope that the visit and U.S. engagement will put the generals in a straitjacket,” said Aung Zaw.

It was, almost literally, a political straitjacket for President Obama.

His arms were inserted in the long, closed sleeves of the straitjacket.

The next minute he was pinned, handcuffed, and in a straitjacket, after crippling one assailant with a kick on the knee.

I always thought him sane enough until today, but you can take it from me that either he or I ought to be in a straitjacket.

The straitjacket which German idealism has provided is certainly far too narrow even for the varieties of human imagination.

His first move was to take the straitjacket in his own hands and order me to stand.