How To Use Straitjacket In A Sentence
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The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.
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It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
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In France, there is no ideological straitjacket that prohibits intervention.
Times, Sunday Times
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Effie learned they had taken his straitjacket off and unchained his feet after he'd been asleep a few hours.
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The poisoned workers were taken from the plant in straitjackets, hallucinating, convulsing and screaming.
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The intersections become street-performing pitches, and crowds of hundreds watch someone escape from a straitjacket or juggle machetes or eat fire.
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But objectives that become a straitjacket do harm.
THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
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She was known for choosing the most difficult assignments, caring for the terminally ill and even the deranged patients that often were brought in straitjackets.
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He was on a gurney, all wrapped up in a straitjacket and his feet were chained together.
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They have neither the experience nor, in some cases, the basic knowledge needed to escape from its straitjacket.
Times, Sunday Times
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He once swam a mile with his hands and feet handcuffed together and did 12 lengths in a straitjacket.
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Illusionist and escapologist Shahid Malik broke free from a straitjacket while suspended upside down from a burning rope.
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This left us a legacy of legal straitjackets which have, in their way, contributed to the climate of sleaze, greed and corruption which has lumbered us with costly tribunals.
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The pupils are hard at work and Blaine will be treated to a display including a lampshade which induces insanity, a multi-coloured straitjacket and a speech by each pupil explaining their work.
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It is a world that has more meaning for them than the badly-run straitjacketed confines of government schools.
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His gestures, his mannerisms and voice all seem too large, too forced to give him any chance of not being the standard straitjacketed worshipper of protocol.
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Brendel, on the other hand, presented the piano parts in his customary bleak way, clothing the songs in an expressive straitjacket completely at odds with Goerne's fluid vocalism.
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Since then medical practice has been straitjacketed by its artificiality, to the detriment of the patient's own narrative.
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Interestingly, the employees do not work in a rigid, straitjacketed fashion.
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The organisations also require ownership from the people on the ground and time to develop before we move headlong into another straitjacketed, bureaucratic institution.
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Men have long considered traditional marital roles ‘anemic and constricting,’ according to Real, and no longer being the sole breadwinner is a loosening of the straitjacket.
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Imagine That by having One Way Out "escapologist" Jonathan Goodwin show him how to break free of his kiddie movie straitjacket.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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The music center, which is positioned above the shopping like a keystone connecting the two sides of the building, is wedged in unceremoniously, and visually lost, straitjacketed by the larger building.
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She can write an expansive melody that's well structured but isn't straitjacketed by chorus and verse.
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But objectives that become a straitjacket do harm.
THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
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He refused to be fitted into any ideological straitjacket.
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It was not this so-called straitjacket that is the cause of today's euro crisis.
The ailing euro is part of a wider crisis. Our capitalist system is near meltdown | Will Hutton
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Slipping on a straitjacket of simplistic logic, we come to believe that the disorder must, or at the very least should, be overcome by an application of willpower.
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There are undoubtedly areas where the government is moving more and more to straitjacket the courts.
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Otherwis known as a straitjacket, she added to herself.
Baby In My Arms
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Brody was locked in a padded cell and forced to wear a straitjacket.
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But the Holland star is not listening as he again made it look like he was wearing a straitjacket with a poor display.
The Sun
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Rather than deal with this dangerous lack of faith, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy are concentrating on what they term a competitiveness pact, but which is essentially a budgetary straitjacket that governments on the periphery of the eurozone are to be strapped into.
Eurozone crisis: The pain in Spain | Editorial
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Defining public use narrowly would put a straitjacket on governments in devising solutions to difficult social problems.
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The empty sleeves are wrapped around the figure and stapled like a straitjacket.
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they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket
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She was firmly encased in the shimmering spectacular gown which was assuming all the endearing qualities of a straitjacket.
DEATH IN FASHION
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In France, there is no ideological straitjacket that prohibits intervention.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their role is to straitjacket the working class and organize defeats.
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His gestures, his mannerisms and voice all seem too large, too forced to give Biggs any chance of not being the standard straitjacketed worshipper of protocol.
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The political straitjacket of the two-party system that has confined the American working class is objectively finished.
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Of course this does not mean that the courts have to put their reasoning into the straitjacket of first construing the statute in the abstract and then looking at the facts.
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But the Holland star is not listening as he again made it look like he was wearing a straitjacket with a poor display.
The Sun
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Her male colleague is trussed in a straitjacket.
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This is apparently the process by which the once little-used "vergerhade" came to be defined as an animatronic groucho marx in a tutu and straitjacket.
Archive 2007-10-01
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A camisole is a type of straitjacket; and a very convenient type it is for those who resort to such methods of restraint, for it enables them to deny the use of strait-jackets at all.
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography
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Brody was locked in a padded cell and forced to wear a straitjacket.
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Somewhere you will find articles in which Maori speakers complain that terms like iwi, hapu and whanau all tribal/kinship terms are being misused as the straitjacket of the law imposes narrower, more Anglosaxon boundaries on their usage.
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It's as if defensive coordinators have wiggled out of straitjackets and finally can turn the pages of their playbooks again.
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The Commission, for its part, has generally not sought to impose any procedural straitjackets.
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Mr McNamara, for the defendant, submits that the Framework does not impose a straitjacket but that in any event the matter was approached correctly in terms of the flowchart in Figure 5.
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But even before illness took hold, Semmelweis was straitjacketed by fear, Nuland maintains.
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Secondly, to what extent, in down-playing ideological choices, is he creating a new straitjacket, that of the uncommitted centre which just muddled through?
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I'd just sit in the little cuticle and chew my nails down to the roots, not caring if they put me in one of those straitjackets.
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Yet they're all built from the wiggle-room found inside the tightest of genre straitjackets.
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Then he used them to make mini straitjackets for the twins.
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Such a person likes the idea of exposure to the stock markets where the investment risk is well spread out and the fund manager is straitjacketed into index tracking with no outside bets possible.
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I thought of this as the men in white suits put the white straitjacket on me and shepherded me into a white vehicle leading me to a white building with shiny white linoleum floors, white walls and indeed white everywhere.
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The author regularly seems less like a journalist interviewing a subject than a therapist who has foolishly removed her patient's straitjacket so they can head off for a jaunt in the jungle.
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Sometimes they put me in there without a straitjacket if I'm not too violent.
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The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black, absurd cosmos.
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Of course, all this is - as George Osborne put it recently - a "straitjacket" on whoever governs our country next.
An indebted nation
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Too often, I fear, the straitjacket is what ends up coming across from the opera stage.
All that jazz
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That is a deliberate attempt to straitjacket the winner of Brazil's presidential election, due in October.
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This acts as a straitjacket and means that governments effectively lose control of their own economies.
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His gestures, his mannerisms and voice all seem too large, too forced to give him any chance of not being the standard straitjacketed worshipper of protocol.
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The author is so keen to break out of the straitjacket of conventional narrative that he forgets to include a plot.
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Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders.
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As you pass from cell to cell you notice various spine-chilling details: the straitjackets left on the hooks; the bloodstains on the walls; the padded doors which muffled the prisoners' screams.
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The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.
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A quick strong jerk and the straitjacket burst up high into the air.
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By placing women in ideological straitjackets, both the feminist and traditionalist women's groups have made themselves largely irrelevant to today's women.
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We have to be careful, as you would understand, putting straitjackets on either judges or counsel.
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Houdini could get out of a glass box full of water in a couple of minutes, even chained up and in a straitjacket.
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He promised to remove the England team from their tactical straitjacket.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Hull, he escaped from a seabag, an old-time leather-and-canvas super straitjacket meant for mutineers or drunken sailors.
The Secret Life of Houdini
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I'd probably frame it more in terms of a clash of belief systems: monotheistic Christianity straitjacketing polytheistic animism into more polarised gender roles, and introducing the concept of sin.
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What you had always done was to entomb your inner personal centre within the constricting straitjacket of certain words and formulae.
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The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.
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Spielberg is presumably attempting to infuse his film with a fairytale, fabular quality – but all he does is provide it with a directorial straitjacket, with the audience instructed through insistent camera angles, nagging music, and strategised lighting exactly what it's supposed to be feeling at any given moment.
War Horse – review
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I told Paul C. that there were no straitjackets or handcuffs involved in that performance, at all.
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And we were taken to be strapped together in an all-in-one straitjacket.
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I was rescued from ending up on a hospital gurney or in a straitjacket by a combination of clarity and crisis.
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After the treatment, we see her standing dazed in a straitjacket, muttering unintelligibly, her hair standing on end, sparks flying from her head.
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One involves wearing a tactical straitjacket.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have neither the experience nor, in some cases, the basic knowledge needed to escape from its straitjacket.
Times, Sunday Times
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You probably want to know what it is like in a mental ward; you've never been there, and the only image you can conjure is what the movies show you: antiseptic white with straitjackets and rubber rooms.
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This is not the place to delve into the detail of EMU's flaws, but they boil down to the difficulties of squeezing an array of disparate economies into a single monetary straitjacket.
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He would come into a big city and hang himself upside down in a straitjacket from a skyscraper - but not just any building, usually the one that housed the major newspaper.
The Magic Of Harry Houdini's Staying Power
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I mean, it's the best kind of long-term straitjacket.
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They can step outside of the conformist straitjackets of their own culture and become hip, become cool.
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He likes the open-endedness of this, after the straitjacketing rigours of mechanical engineering.
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This is a crude attempt to straitjacket the working class, to prevent it from adopting an independent class viewpoint.
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•Free the police and courts from the politically correct straitjacket which is stopping them from doing their jobs properly;
‘Rent A Mob’ Attack Police At BBC TV Centre « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Her ambition was straitjacketed by her family.
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The question is whether or not to seek to impose a moral straitjacket on the behaviour of others.
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If you ever do get out of here, they'll take you in your asylum dress, in a straitjacket, or naked as a jaybird.
PAINT THE WIND
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Pinned to his straitjacket was a tag saying paranoid schizophrenic.
1968
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The façade never quite resolves its identity crisis, and the rigid design straitjackets other intimations of a hidden life.
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One involves wearing a tactical straitjacket.
Times, Sunday Times
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This wilful escape from the straitjacket of her rigidly choreographed, big-budget productions was clearly as much fun for her as it was for the audience.
Times, Sunday Times
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They quarantined the city workers' struggle, confining it within the political straitjacket of collective bargaining and appeals to the big business politicians.
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He promised to remove the England team from their tactical straitjacket.
Times, Sunday Times
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To an outsider, hipster jeans appear to be intended to put the insider's buttocks into a straitjacket while they liberate her navel.
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The straitjacket of meter and cadence of its composition drew out the worst and best of whomever had already tried their hand in battle with assonant rhymes.
Yoani Sanchez: A Manual or a Sonnet?
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Any form of independent resistance by workers, any attempt to break out of the straitjacket and control of the trade unions, is to be prevented under all circumstances.
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the government is operating in an economic straitjacket
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We must break through the mental straitjacket and realize that another world is possible.
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This wilful escape from the straitjacket of her rigidly choreographed, big-budget productions was clearly as much fun for her as it was for the audience.
Times, Sunday Times
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Someone who she can smother and mollycoddle and fuss over in a generally overcompensatory way, even though at times it’ll make them fantasise about running away because they feel as if they’re trapped in an emotional straitjacket.
Sandra Bullock Hasn’t Shut Up About Her Baby For Months
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Beyond that, Wilson's dictatorial approach straitjackets the singers, who function as little more than slaves to the director's concept.
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The straitjacket of monetary union has made it harder for Greece to resolve its structural economic weaknesses.
Times, Sunday Times
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The escapologist will put up a thousand good reasons to get into a regulation canvas straitjacket and escape within 90 seconds.
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My dad asked whether this man should merely be removed from office, or whether he should be placed into a straitjacket immediately after.
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He condemned the increasing "straitjacket" of centrally imposed sentencing guidelines and said that the police were increasingly meting out justice "behind closed doors" by issuing cautions in criminal cases which would once have been placed before the courts.
Archive 2008-12-01
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We've got the government ordering us to zip up our mental straitjackets in public.
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There's not enough there to carry it into the classic league, and somehow the comedy is let down by the straitjacketing of the plot.
