straightjacket|straightjackets|straitjacket in English

noun

confining jacket with long sleeves used to restrain potentially violent patients or prisoners

Use "straightjacket|straightjackets|straitjacket" in a sentence

1. the straitjacket of taxation.

2. John, he put in a straitjacket.

3. It was like being in a straightjacket.

4. The government is operating in an economic straitjacket.

5. Beijing may have been put a straitjacket for the Games.

6. They defected because russian dance was in a straitjacket.

7. I spent that night in a straitjacket of fear.

8. To them, the pound is already in a straitjacket.

9. He refused to be fitted into any ideological straitjacket.

10. You can't straightjacket artists and have them compete like athletes.

11. The national curriculum must be a guide, not a straitjacket.

12. The policy of the annually balanced budget represents a rigid straightjacket.

13. The new playwrights broke out of the old conventional straitjacket.

14. Or is he trussing her up in a golden straitjacket?

15. Guards trussed him in a straitjacket until his limbs became numb.

16. People realize that we lived in a straitjacket for along time.

17. Occasionally his behavior became so uncontrollable that he had to be placed in a straitjacket.

18. At other times, he wore a straightjacket, like the kind used in mental hospitals to restrain patients.

19. He once escaped from a straightjacket while hanging high in the air, upside down, from a crane.

20. The Catalans weaves its tale of simple people, reflecting character weaknesses and the straightjacket of tradition

21. The parliamentary straightjacket which the Labour Party had placed itself in was inimical to violent change.

22. Cameron knew how good his son really was, and encouraged him to break free of the pop straitjacket.

23. The Italian press has slammed what they claim is a return to the bureaucratic straightjacket of the Mussolini era.

24. However, as no votes have been recorded at these junctures the arithmetic straitjacket has remained largely hidden.

25. Designed for a government of clerks, civil service became a straitjacket in an era of knowledge workers.