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Other writers can soon come to feel straightjacketed by them, of course.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010
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Haiti can take care of itself if it is not straightjacketed by the aid industry.
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Other writers can soon come to feel straightjacketed by them, of course.
Archive 2010-03-01 Tim Stretton 2010
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Haiti can take care of itself if it is not straightjacketed by the aid industry.
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti Reconstruction: Mercenaries vs. Visionaries 2010
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Your singular ineptitude -- starting a war that didn't need to be fought, fighting it badly, the Katrina fiasco, and neglect of the financial crisis -- finally discredited a Republican, phony "conservative" culture, which has straightjacketed "the better angels of our nature" for four decades.
Blake Fleetwood: Thank You George Bush for Bringing Us Obama 2009
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But every time I actually tried to start writing the introduction, as opposed to just writing notes, I felt straightjacketed.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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But every time I actually tried to start writing the introduction, as opposed to just writing notes, I felt straightjacketed.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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And secondary schools have also been straightjacketed by endless Government dictat too.
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I would expand further on this thought, but to face someone in the 21st century who thinks that all “nutjobs” should be straightjacketed and confined away from everyone else is so wrong on so many levels I do not know where to begin.
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In my experience, even in the current crop of class-based straightjacketed game systems, (1) L50 characters have more tactical options, and (2) L50 teams function much better.
SonyBay 2005
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