How To Use Straightjacket In A Sentence
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While the generally liberal-leaning U.S. foreign policy establishment was quick to equate Obama's ascent to the presidency with a "new area of international engagement," the realities of realpolitilk has not only forced the President into a "straightjacket" with limited policy options vis-à-vis Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
Sigurd Neubauer: Tea Partiers, Watch Out: Obama's Iran Policies Echo Bush's
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Next, a scruffy-looking student enthusiastically volunteered to lace him into a straightjacket and secure him with padlocks and chains.
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The treatments comprised straightjackets, seclusion, insulin shock and electric shock treatment, that was it.
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Resnick also offers a great editorial about the silliness of defining science fiction, a genre which refuses to be put in a "straightjacket".
August 2007
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And not just any ordinary swaddle - we're talking Miracle Blanket swaddle, which is to say, full-on baby straightjacket.
Bustin' loose
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Couples should trade in the straightjacket of strict monogamy, which essentially doesn't work, and instead seek to be 'monogomish,' that is, being essentially faithful but allowing for outside liaisons which just might prevent the dissolution of the primary relationship.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The New York Times' Questions Monogamy
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But its also a kind of straightjacket that may discourage the kind of discourse that is capable of persuasion.
Professor John McGinnis on originalism.
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Former ITV executive chairman Michael Grade previously labelled the mechanism a "straightjacket" to the broadcaster's revival in the tough advertising market last year.
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Bond holders want above all to know they'll be repaid, preferably in uninflated dollars, and the best guarantee of repayment will be evidence that Washington has finally donned a fiscal straightjacket.
Boehner's Debt-Limit Marker
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Incredibly flexible, Captain Frodo is also an escapologist and specialises in freeing himself from straightjackets.
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She remains comically naive even when she is put in a straightjacket and has her hair shorn.
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It might be a looney bin, the only difference between a lab coat and a straightjacket is the location of the sleeves …
Would You Become Someone Else To Achieve Your Dreams?
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His argument is simply that there is a delicate balance between being prepared, and being straightjacketed.
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Some part of my brain was sane enough to understand that the others would arrive with a straightjacket if they heard me talk to empty space.
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For good behaviour, I was allowed to go around without a straightjacket and even visit with some of the more sane patients.
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I'm wondering if the straightjacket he was wearing was his or his management's idea.
The Sun
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And not just any ordinary swaddle – we’re talking Miracle Blanket swaddle, which is to say, full-on baby straightjacket.
Bustin’ loose | Her Bad Mother
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The same applied to straightjacket.
Times, Sunday Times
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An odd mix of waistcoat and straightjacket up top, with some kind of diamante augmentation around the neck, the whole combo topped off with a wide brimmed black hat.
Expecting Rain
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She refuses to let herself be confined in any of the old world's many straightjackets.
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If they actually used the word "straightjacket" in a textbook, the author should be drawn and quartered, and then his/her remains put into a strait jacket.
Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories
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Beyond the task of extricating women's liberation from the straightjacket of male-conceived leftist 'certainties' concerning emancipation, 'neofeminists', as the mass organisations sometimes referred to them, emphasised the distinct, equally systematic exploitation of women by men, adding women's sexuality and reproductive function as key sites of a power struggle, in addition to the relatively well-theorised impact of the capitalist mode of production on gender relations.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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The Italian press has slammed what they claim is a return to the bureaucratic straightjacket of the Mussolini era.
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Ignore those who would straightjacket permissible thought.
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Moreover, the Gold Standard of the 1930s, which we long ago abandoned, acted like a kind of straightjacket on monetary policies.
Jeff Sachs knocks it out of the park
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Rafa Benitez has always been a fan of Silva but the financial straightjacket he works in at Anfield is likely to prohibit any deal.
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Of course I do not seek to put the trial judge in a straightjacket.
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Shirui, himself, was the one who strapped Lhee into a straightjacket and threw him into the mental hospital.
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Obama's ascent to the presidency with a "new area of international engagement," the realities of realpolitilk has not only forced the President into a "straightjacket" with limited policy options vis-à-vis Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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It provides a way for good bands to reach big audiences directly, bypassing the gatekeepers and their straightjacketed radio playlists.
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Having no thespian-like skills, Jacks only act is to perform the tricks of Houdini, namely the handcuff and straightjacket escapes.
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