It might be a looney bin, the only difference between a lab coat and a straightjacket is the location of the sleeves … ❋ Unknown (2008)
Moreover, the Gold Standard of the 1930s, which we long ago abandoned, acted like a kind of straightjacket on monetary policies. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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 (2010)
Resnick also offers a great editorial about the silliness of defining science fiction, a genre which refuses to be put in a "straightjacket". ❋ Unknown (2007)
But its also a kind of straightjacket that may discourage the kind of discourse that is capable of persuasion. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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 (2010)
Former ITV executive chairman Michael Grade previously labelled the mechanism a "straightjacket" to the broadcaster's revival in the tough advertising market last year. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Palestinians, realizing that having even the most rhetorically empathetic president to their plight in the White House still will not change U.S. policy to align with their human and national rights, have rightly jettisoned the straightjacket of the U.S.-led "peace process." ❋ Josh Ruebner (2011)
Third, and perhaps most important, TSA is breaking through the 'rummage for potentially dangerous objects' straightjacket that is the core of the agency's trouble with the public. ❋ Kip Hawley (2011)
"We will move out of the straightjacket of security, intelligence and military matters." ❋ Jay Solomon (2011)
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 (2011)
If we take a spiritual/mystical perspective, all of those different jobs may be as exactly the same job -- the same straightjacket or the same opportunity. ❋ Max Eternity (2010)
However, I am pushing another sort of response than the sociological straightjacket conveys. ❋ Max Eternity (2010)
Gadhafi is inordinately proud of his Green Book, an archaic mixture of primitive socialism, 1960s-style "people power" rhetoric, and traditional Bedouin values; it has been the touchstone and straightjacket for politics in Libya for nearly four decades. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2011)
