Trammeled

There were its anticompetitive actions that "trammeled" the process that normally encourages innovation and consumer benefit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We're not talking trammeled, double track; we're talking artfully engineered, sustainably built serpentine trail that flows with the natural landscape. ❋ Mike Harrelson (2010)

“A good fire would clear this place,” Rytlock snarled, stepping through the trammeled gap. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

The unmarked road up to Cala Montjoi becomes clogged with cars seeking a less trammeled piece of beach. ❋ Lisa Abend (2011)

And not just the 2nd, but also the others that were recently trammeled upon by the Bush admin. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, rich Western countries can't easily wag a finger at China's labor practices, since Beijing is simply following a neocolonial path already well-trammeled by multinational moguls like Shell and Hershey's. ❋ Michelle Chen (2010)

I have been pummeled by blind nuns in Costa Rica, trammeled by a galloping male masseur hanging from a rafter in China, I've been to strange shady little strip mall parlors and glam spas that gave me cucumber water. ❋ Kirsten Dixon (2011)

Will Self on America from the Air by Daniel Mathews and James S. Jackson: My hunch is that the way in which every aspect of air travel is trammeled by the ineffably dull -- tedious airport architecture, monotonous Muzak, anodyne announcements, superfluous consumer opportunities -- is the result of an unconscious collective denial. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In this gray land of muffled sound and borrowed light, our very breath was snatched from our mouths and trammeled underfoot. ❋ William James Henry (2010)

I have trammeled the seeds, killed whatever they were going to be. ❋ Unknown (2010)