We barely acknowledge the sexual straitjacket we force upon women.
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"A stutter can be like a straitjacket," she told NPR.
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Maybe Clark's lyrics deconstruct their own conservative straitjacket after all.
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The point, simply, is to avoid the straitjacket of should.
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Morenz was restrained in a straitjacket, a friend later said.
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European banks complain of being forced into an American-designed straitjacket.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Philip Hammond is struggling with his Brexit straitjacket.
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Nurses restrained Mohammad with wide Velcro strips that functioned as a straitjacket.
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It's like an edible Hieronymus Bosch painting wrapped in a paper straitjacket.
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Just because they didn't have to haul him off in a straitjacket!
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Only when annual GDP growth falls below 1% can the straitjacket be loosened.
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Hal bucked as if he were trying to break out of a straitjacket.
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Instead, law micromanages American life and creates a straitjacket on official decision-making.
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You have to channel him, but you can't put him in a straitjacket.
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AND FINALLY ... Straight outta jacket Ever wanted to know how to escape a straitjacket?
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But year-round regional theaters, needing reliable product, can straitjacket artists looking to stretch.
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Women have been shrugging off the straitjacket of the power suit for awhile now.
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But the equation of modern Chinese literature with politics is also something of a straitjacket.
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So the proposed long-term budget would not be a straitjacket on each succeeding Congress.
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And I understood that I had to act decisively to break this kind of straitjacket.
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And some of his longtime friends are urging him not to don a rhetorical straitjacket.
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Where ballet is buoyant, his dynamics are hammer-like; and his tempos tend to straitjacket dancers.
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What kind of plant would demand that NATO up their military spending to straitjacket mad Vlad?
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Friedman noted that adopting the euro meant locking Europe's economies together in a common economic straitjacket.
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Halfway through, however, Banville wriggles out of his self-imposed straitjacket to do a remarkable thing.
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Gorbachev embarked on major changes but within the straitjacket of a communist economic and political system.
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The steep repayment burdens have been a straitjacket on students and their career aspirations for years.
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And so I laughed at the absurdity of what I'd been fearing, laughed at the straitjacket of a definition I'd fashioned and had been trying to fit into, laughed with the awareness — with the sheer exhilaration of the awareness — that I could take that straitjacket off.
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Perhaps the greatest novelty of GP-led deals, however, has been to ease the ten-year straitjacket.
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Metal can be your identity, or at least a big part of it, without becoming a straitjacket.
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Last June, authorities devalued the naira by 220 percent only to then return it to its straitjacket.
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An unquestioning faith in military might and an underinvestment in diplomacy has tied Washington in a policy straitjacket.
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It serves as an affirmation of Emerson's belief that true learning can't be done in an intellectual straitjacket.
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"He can discipline himself to some degree, but you're not going to put this guy in a straitjacket."
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Bound by a socialist straitjacket, Cuba produces little else that other countries or its own people want to buy.
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Yet officials say that, given the choice, they would choose growth sustained by state investment over a fiscal straitjacket.
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But stuck in the euro straitjacket, they had to wait for the European Central Bank to provide help instead.
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Big tech doesn't want a Wall Street-like straitjacket, but growth will suffer without clear rules of the road.
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As Heinlein himself wrote in that libertarian manifesto, "Whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!"
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A lighter tax burden for corporates will also help boost growth with Greece now out of the bailout straitjacket.
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The ideological straitjacket "A Better Deal" creates goes deeper than a neglect of history or a refusal to empower citizens.
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Priebus is a "party guy" — an "organization man" who has trapped himself in a self-created straitjacket of party loyalty.
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Any Democratic nominee will be subject to the straitjacket of political correctness, quotas and demands from their fractious, squabbling coalition.
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The straitjacket of the euro, maintained through necessity in defiance of logic, may become untenable once unraveling has been legitimized.
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"For the first few scenes in the draft, I would feel like I was wearing a straitjacket," admitted Wilson-Cairns.
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The soaring spires, the sloping shores, the straitjacket of the street grid — many things give form to the great metropolis.
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Unsurprisingly, House Democrats, traditional allies of trial lawyers, overwhelmingly opposed the bill, calling it a "straitjacket" for class-action suits.
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In the video directed by Chase O'Black and Daniel Russell, Elohim transports herself to a mental asylum, strapped in a straitjacket.
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Veteran Democratic officials — even those who favor reducing regulations — call that a straitjacket inhibiting regulations that even business executives might embrace.
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Criss Angel says he doesn't remember the moment his dangerous straitjacket stunt went awry at his Las Vegas show Mindfreak Live!
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What is better than "Smokin' on pounds 'til them shits just dead weight / Ben Franklin straitjacket, my money gonna stay straight"?
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The straitjacket escape, however, would look boring in one long shot, and loses nothing from the momentum of fast-paced editing.
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Valentine's Day puts a tight straitjacket on any emotional messiness, and paints a big smile on everyone's face for 24 hours.
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The episodic foundation of television can be a straitjacket that promotes formula, but at least it insists that stories get told.
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And all ideas for a substantial budget to help countries in the straitjacket of the euro adjust to shocks have been rejected.
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At which point you can either choose to embrace your point of difference, or retreat back into the straitjacket of familiar dress.
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But as long as Republicans keep it vague, history shows they can put the whole government in a straitjacket with relative ease.
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He argues that the rules are a "bureaucratic straitjacket" impeding investment in broadband by companies like AT&T, Verizon and Cox Communications.
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I spent the next 24 hours in a safety cell, naked, surrounded by padded walls and with a straitjacket for a blanket.
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She learned to extract herself from a straitjacket—gifted to her by a magician who bought it from a now defunct asylum.
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Renfield, an asylum inmate, in sad-panda eye makeup and a deconstructed straitjacket, writing in what seems to be her own blood.
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In actuality, the differences are glaring and material and they amount closer to the difference between wearing a jacket and a straitjacket.
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At the height of the Cold War, all countries and especially developing ones, were forced to choose one superpower straitjacket or the other.
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A year after she arrived, one of the nuns discovered her body, stiff in the little straitjacket that she had been tied into.
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Fracking experts retort that the real absurdity is the regulatory straitjacket that Britain has imposed in response to public fears incited by NGOs.
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He says she told him Thomas was taken to Bellevue Hospital in a straitjacket in 1972 after threatening to kill her and Christian.
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You add fertilizer, then you spray this chemical; it's all about a war, trying to control nature and put it in a straitjacket.
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They were freelance philosophers working independently of the universities, criticising mainstream views and liberating thought from its academic straitjacket and neo-Aristotelian dogmatism.
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Two reports issued this week suggest that investors should strive to keep the spending straitjacket on oil companies even if prices improve further.
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There was a recreation of a Soviet jail and, special for the night, a female prisoner in a black straitjacket, who didn't speak.
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The demand for nuclear orthodoxy has excluded outsiders, particularly women, placing them in a "consensual straitjacket" of conformity in a male-dominated world.
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The straitjacket of tradition and the struggle for excellence; teenage fantasies that brush up against burgeoning adult realities; a refreshing lack of accountability.
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Rather, they were the genesis of his greatest contribution to classical music: the liberation of harmony from the straitjacket of tonic-dominant attraction.
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I think we all recognized that the days of the stylebook, of the rigid straitjacket of a certain orthodoxy to storytelling, is over.
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Adam Realman, will extricate himself, Houdini-style, from ropes, handcuffs and a straitjacket — and reveal a few secrets about how it's all done.
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It goes from Colbert genuinely laughing at a candidate who was supposed to be a joke to Colbert laughing hysterically, wearing a straitjacket.
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Part of the ugliness seems a reaction to the straitjacket of political correctness, which preceded Obama, and got worse in some corridors, mainly academia.
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But whoever wins Brazil's presidential race will inherit a fiscal straitjacket and an economy that only recently emerged from its deepest recession in decades.
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There are sword swallowers, tattooed ladies, jugglers, fire eaters, tiger tamers, and straitjacket escape artists, but the humanity of the performers is at center.
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The objects are prerequisites for a binding spell, an incantation typically used to keep someone from harming themselves or others, like a magical straitjacket.
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Greece's recent, very unfortunate experience with excessive budget belt-tightening within a Euro straitjacket would seem to offer a cautionary tale for Puerto Rico.
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It is a place where the only politics that are practiced or countenanced are those of political correctness — the straitjacket favored by the left.
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He often spoke of a need for flexibility in performance — warning that trying to "machine-in every detail" could "straitjacket" performers and stifle creativity.
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According to the papers Thomas was diagnosed as "a paranoid schizophrenic" and was kept in a straitjacket when she would visit him at the hospital.
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Pakistan's youth bulge needs a government capable of constantly escalating public spending, not one that wears a straitjacket tailored by Pakistani officials and I.M.F. accountants.
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The army of organizers they hired when fundraising and polling were at their peak — it ultimately ballooned to over 1,000 people — had become a straitjacket.
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And she criticized President Barack Obama for urging her not to attack Mr. Sanders during the primaries ("I felt like I was in a straitjacket").
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They are angry that the party is trying to put a Mao-era ideological straitjacket on an economy driven by private enterprises and young consumers.
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The singer was wheeled onto the stage in a white straitjacket, tearing out of it to start singing "Queen," the funky track off her latest album.
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A reformist, resolutely modern French president who wants to free his country from the straitjacket of the over-mighty state has been a long time coming.
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The famous illusionist lost consciousness as he hung upside down in the air, confined by at least one straitjacket during the show at the Luxor Hotel.
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Stuck within a euro straitjacket that has made it difficult for Italy to redress its economic imbalances, the country's economic performance since 2008 has been abysmal.
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Her bereft sons would be swept back into the straitjacket of royal protocol and privilege, brought up by their father as stuffily as he had been.
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Joan Crawford shrieks in a straitjacket in a promo for a 1964 movie straightforwardly titled Strait-Jacket, until her image is chopped in two with an ax.
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Elizabeth, a relatively unremarkable woman who has followed more or less the same routine for much of her life, may sound, by contrast, like a creative straitjacket.
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If and when Democrats ever regain power, the tax bill will become powerful tools for escaping a straitjacket that always constricts their big ideas for economic redistribution.
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Ferg spends the performance dancing around stage in a straitjacket, and Rocky comes onstage wheeled in by a nurse, who spends the performance trying to restrain him.
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He'd gravitated to music, as a performer, writer and band leader, managing despite the straitjacket of Jim Crow to absorb the black musical traditions he so admired.
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Now the nationalists in the regime are free to take apart Obama's Clean Power Plan, which they see as an economic straitjacket hamstringing the country's extractive industries.
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In the former, neither the president nor any of his close advisers seem to appreciate the strategic straitjacket in which they have placed a fragile Iraqi government.
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"Christmas is one of the most calorific periods of the year, and then you put yourself in a straitjacket when you go on a crash diet," he said.
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In 2016, Pepe became the patron saint of the fascist troll, an emblem on the small-minded neo-Nazi moral straitjacket that's been masquerading as nihilistic anarchy lately.
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The facile answer is to cite forces beyond French control: bureaucracy in Brussels; the currency straitjacket of the euro; the European Central Bank; the dark winds of globalization.
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For a moment, at least, the shrieking chorus dimmed, the demands that Donald Trump be put in a straitjacket and that the 25th Amendment be invoked quieted down.
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But while fiscal prudence is always necessary, for Democrats to put spending in a straitjacket — especially when Republicans have shown themselves completely irresponsible — looks like a bad move.
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Young people, empowered by mobile phones and computers, are changing the way they use their own language and breaking out of the straitjacket that has restricted communication for millennia.
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Thanks to the IMF's straitjacket, Jamaica has now reduced its public debt to 126% of GDP and trimmed its public-sector wage bill from 11% of GDP to 10%.
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Here you can see the straitjacket and the giant milk can from which Houdini escaped, as well as the rifle that in 1918 killed the illusionist William Robinson, a.k.a.
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At certain moments, we can almost feel his desire to shrug off the straitjacket of fidelity and make this tale of false gods and flawed superheroes completely his own.
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It's a shrewd, modernizing change that frees Wendy from the straitjacket of gender, allowing her simply to be a child rather than a surrogate mom or potential romantic foil.
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Removing the 'gender straitjacket' A new global study found that young girls and boys are outfitted with "gender straitjackets" by the age of 10, resulting in lifelong negative consequences.
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Britain's return to the gold standard in 1925 at an unrealistic rate led to a succession of political dramas, as the gold straitjacket squeezed the life out of the economy.
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Oh OK, I didn't because it's probably made up, but I do highly approve of a traditional carb 'n' fat-based Latin dish getting merrily thwacked into a corn straitjacket.
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With politic limits having been reached to fiscal pain, it is also difficult to see how the country will subject itself to yet more budget austerity in a euro straitjacket.
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That surveillance capitalism's abusive modus operandi is now inspiring governments to follow suit — aping the approach by developing their own data-driven control systems to straitjacket citizens — is exceptionally chilling.
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The buckles on a stretcher or gurney in an ambulance are merely a version of a seatbelt: "They are not involuntary restraints; it is not a straitjacket situation," he said.
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Italy's loss of competitiveness, coupled with its need to undertake serious budget adjustment in a euro straitjacket, has contributed to its highly disappointing economic performance over the past two decades.
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For all the security that "Jersey Boys" gave Mr. Young — presumably he could have a career singing Four Seasons hits ad infinitum — that keening vocal style loomed as a musical straitjacket.
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After restraining himself in a straitjacket for his previous video, Brett Eldredge was looking for a little more freedom when it came time to shoot the clip for his next single.
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That the sleeves were tied back into the body of the garments, straitjacket-style, reminded a viewer that controlling the fundamental unruliness of human bodies is among Mr. Owens's continuing concerns.
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First, Osborne has to find a way out of the straitjacket he made for himself by promising to turn Britain's budget deficit into a surplus by the end of the decade.
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I suppose this is the point where I should mention that in many ways, the three-act structure is a straitjacket that can make otherwise good movies feel predictable and formulaic.
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Well-intentioned efforts to avoid another financial crisis have put the banking system in a straitjacket, discouraging lending and reducing liquidity on trading desks, which has contributed mightily to market gyrations.
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On the streets of Buenos Aires, many Argentines were apprehensive the IMF could once again impose a straitjacket on their country, after the spectacular failure of its policies 17 years earlier.
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Gustavo Piga, economics professor at Rome's Tor Vergata university, said that by rejecting the straitjacket of EU rules the government had created an "enormous opportunity" to increase growth through public investments.
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The fragmentation in the political party system, there are seven parties in the German Bundestag, to a large degree related to repeat Grand Coalitions, has cursed the SPD into a straitjacket.
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First, like the Greek government before it, the Puerto Rican government is being required by its oversight board to do more budget adjustment than is advisable within a U.S. dollar straitjacket.
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Stuck within a euro straitjacket and saddled with a market-unfriendly populist government, it is difficult to see how Italy could grow its way out of its debt problem in those circumstances.
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When the charter was written by the seven "Fathers of the Constitution" (there were no women), Mr. Roca never expected it would be treated as the straitjacket that some now consider it.
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That's because the Era of Hurt Feelings hadn't reached the point of summoning its opponent, someone to cry out, "Enough!" and mobilize all the ones who are sick of wearing a straitjacket.
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I went on to inhabit the straitjacket of a "good girl," doing all the things that were expected of me: good grades, graduate school, a sensible career path and, most of all, decorum.
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The Paris agreement allowed all countries to tackle climate change according to their own capabilities, which meant no one was suggesting the U.S. had to be put in "a straitjacket", the minister said.
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I first made the decision to pack crime in while lying in a straitjacket in a prison cell after having the shit beaten out of me by the wardens at just 19 years old.
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Conclusion In sum, the Fiscal Oversight Board has ordered Puerto Rico to put on the equivalent of an IMF policy straitjacket without providing access to the few benefits that usually accompany IMF conditionality programs.
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This approach is not appreciated by his boyfriend, Louis Ironson (a terrific James McArdle, who wears his character's guilt like a scratchy straitjacket), a legal clerk prone to endless bloviation on morality and justice.
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Representative Tim Ryan, Democrat of Ohio and a prominent critic of Ms. Pelosi, argued that Republicans had not abided by such strictures of fiscal discipline, so Democrats shouldn't impose a straitjacket on their ambitions.
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In 2016, Höcke came under fire for a speech in the city of Erfurt, in which he demanded Angela Merkel be "removed from the Chancellory in a straitjacket" for her open-door policy on immigration.
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And this is particularly appealing because Congress is generally wedged into a straitjacket of inaction when it comes to new initiatives or reducing the deficit because it has no way to pay for either effort.
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After this positive shock, Mitsotakis approaches the euro zone and asks it to loosen the fiscal straitjacket which requires Greece to deliver a primary budget surplus (before interest payments) of 3.5% of GDP every year.
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" Complicating matters is the decision to confine such an unconventional figure as Cher in the straitjacket of the biographical jukebox musical — particularly the tripartite diva subgenus most recently botched by "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.
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Stuck within a euro straitjacket that denies Italy the option of devaluing its currency to restore competitiveness, over the past two decades, Italy has managed to lose more than 20 percent in competitiveness to Germany.
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"I had that crazy idea for 'Lose My Mind,' not realizing I painted myself into a corner of having to actually wear the straitjacket for the whole shoot," the singer-songwriter tells PEOPLE with a laugh.
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The authorities had placed me in solitary and put me in the straitjacket because I'd kicked off when they wouldn't allow me to see a visitor who'd traveled for two hours to get to the jail.
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Even as the Dodd-Frank law creeps toward full implementation – roughly one-third of the implementing rules remain to be written – there are proposals ranging from "repeal and replace it" to beefing up its regulatory straitjacket.
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"There is also a risk that Chinese financing and projects will prevent other foreign firms from competing on subsequent commercial opportunities, essentially imposing a straitjacket on African governments to deal only with Chinese entities," Devermont added.
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Fortunately, the lower courts have largely recognized that the decision should not be read expansively to impose a straitjacket on legislative efforts to deal with the serious US problem of gun violence -- unique among developed countries.
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As if I had been waiting for a crisis moment that would force me to squeeze out of the straitjacket of the script, I immediately began improvising my own story and the other actors followed suit.
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" When the campaign ended, veterans of the Agnew press plane gave Mr. Gold a straitjacket as a going away present, Mr. Crouse wrote, "because Gold tended to fly into quasi-psychotic rages at the slightest provocation.
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Even the the International Monetary Fund (IMF) now acknowledges that it was a big mistake in 2010 to have delayed Greece's debt restructuring and to have insisted instead on excessive budget tightening within a euro straitjacket.
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But Curry, the two-time league most valuable player, spent Games 268 and 267 in a virtual straitjacket, finding his 23-pointers contested and his passing and dribbling lanes clogged by quick-footed defenders with long arms.
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China's ambassador to the WTO, Zhang Xiangchen, said this week that China would not have views forced upon it as he warned fellow WTO members against seeing reform as a chance to put China in a straitjacket.
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Last week she managed to win over some pro-Brexit supporters, like the former foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, who supported her plan on Friday despite having criticized it for months, calling it a straitjacket, among other things.
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By not drawing the right lessons from Greece's recent failed attempt at fiscal austerity in a Euro straitjacket, the Puerto Rican government is all too likely to exacerbate rather than to cure the island's current economic crisis.
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The reaction to my claims was swift, with critics hitting back that there is no "evidence" for God and that I belong in a "straitjacket" for suggesting that God can comfort us in our greatest times of need.
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Even the International Monetary Fund now acknowledges that it was a big mistake in 2010 to have delayed Greece's debt restructuring and to have insisted instead on excessive budget tightening within a euro straitjacket without adequate structural reform.
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In all probability, such budget austerity would meaningfully exacerbate the island's present economic slump in much the same way as excessive budget austerity within a euro straitjacket deepened the economic slump in countries like Greece, Portugal and Spain.
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Still, for all his world-vaulting omnivorousness and pixieish humor, Sjon is a deeply personal writer, and the most powerful reading of "CoDex 1962" is that it's an attempt to wriggle out of the ultimate straitjacket: mortality itself.
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That means there is no way for Iran to loosen the straitjacket imposed by Trump's "maximum pressure campaign" other than proxy attacks on shipping, oil fields and in a possible more serious scenario, US targets in the region.
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From the moment the host Billy Crystal was wheeled onstage wearing a straitjacket and a face mask à la Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs," viewers knew the 33 Oscars were not going to be normal.
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With confrontational works like Mlle Bourgeoise Noire — which O'Grady has said was an attempt to address and "explain" to the "them" of the Eurocentric, white, Western art world — she felt as if she'd put herself in a straitjacket.
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Between the lines of Chandra's complaint about the Indian right wing's straitjacket on historical interpretation, I heard a writer bemoaning the inability of people to grasp the true complexity of the world, or even be allowed to represent it.
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Knausgaard's own account of the origin of "My Struggle" concerned a rejection of the fictionality of fiction, a state of crisis in which he needed to abandon the mimetic straitjacket of the novel to achieve authenticity as a writer.
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Many economists have called on Brussels to ease the fiscal straitjacket, whereby countries face punishment if they run budget deficits beyond 3 percent of gross domestic product, to stimulate spending and to accelerate anemic economic growth across the region.
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Stuck in a euro straitjacket and saddled with a market-unfriendly populist government, it is difficult to see how Italy can avoid a debilitating public debt and banking sector crisis should the European economy indeed succumb to another recession.
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But even more serious is the fact that we now have this massive agency that is in a straitjacket, unable to react effectively to the threats of today because it is a union organization, not a national defense organization.
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The Knicks, conversely, have long operated in a presumptive straitjacket, under the weighty adage that rebuilding in New York was impossible or at least unadvisable, given the astronomical ticket prices they charge and the impatient fans those prices create.
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With Italy having entered yet another economic recession and with it being stuck in a euro straitjacket, it is difficult to see how Italy will be able to grow its way out of its public debt and banking sector problems.
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She described how, as a student, she had been drawn into the fundamentalist Islamist sect, and how, after 10 years of marriage and with three children, she had fought to break out of what she calls the straitjacket of radical Islam.
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I now believe the greatest lie of Lean In is its underlying message that most companies and bosses are ultimately benevolent, that hard work is rewarded, that if women shed the straitjacket of self-doubt, a meritocratic world awaits us.
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When he declined his publisher's entreaties for a sequel to "The Exorcist" and instead delivered an elegiac memoir about his mother, "I'll Tell Them I Remember You," published in 21966, Mr. Blatty felt the first cinch of the horror-writing straitjacket.
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He created a necklace made of pearls and Rolex watches, mocking the era's conspicuous consumption; a dress made of bras, lampooning the underwear-as-outerwear craze started by Madonna; a shirt with the arms tied, so that it became a straitjacket.
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These structural economic reforms would seem to be all the more necessary considering that one needs an offset to the negative impact on economic growth from the large budget adjustment that the island will need to do within a U.S. dollar straitjacket.
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The U.S. is expected to move to tighten U.N. sanctions on North Korea — though the country has managed, despite the existing straitjacket, a construction spree that runs the gamut from a ski resort, above, to an experimental submarine, as our interactive details.
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Based on material from Alanis Morissette's 1995 megahit album and several of its follow-ups, it could have wound up in a bio-musical straitjacket or with a story either too light for the songs' furious intelligence or too broad for Broadway.
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But it could have referred just as easily to the protesters, who have rejected Lebanon's usual sectarian straitjacket — the political order that pits the country's 18 officially recognized religious groups against one another in a ceaseless power struggle — to unite in scorn for the system.
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They have historically served as a political marker to define the scale of US military involvement in places like Iraq, but military officials see the numbers as arbitrary, a straitjacket that forces commanders to artificially split units and use contractors to meet the caps.
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U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has long viewed WTO rules as unable to rein in China's trade practices and in March, USTR said the United States would not allow itself to be held to a "straitjacket" of WTO obligations to which it never agreed.
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Earlier, she lay on a bed of nails as if it were a pillow-top mattress, pulling a sunburnt tourist from the audience to stand on her torso as she reclined, and wriggled out of a straitjacket while reciting a monologue from The Glass Menagerie.
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Many Italians are attracted to Grillo's fierce criticism of the European currency, which he has deemed an "anti-democratic straitjacket" out of concern that the EU will impose harsh austerity measures on Italy in the case of a bank bailout, in the manner it did with Greece.
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She may understandably want to keep the focus on her own legacy, which remains tethered to a past that gives the movie its funniest, most sly bit: a white-gloved museum curator contextualizing a Westwood-McLaren shirt festooned with a swastika, straitjacket clasps and Sex Pistols lyrics.
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Whittlesey scheduled a screening of the anti-abortion film "The Silent Scream" at the White House, opposed the Equal Rights Amendment and warned that feminism was a "straitjacket" for women, having the effect, she said, of curtailing their legal rights in child custody and alimony cases.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — In making his case for abandoning the Paris climate accord, President Trump characterized the agreement as an economic straitjacket — one that would impose terrible burdens on Americans by shuttering the coal industry, suffocating growth and redistributing jobs and wealth from the United States to its competitors.
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The Republican nominee — three months after clinching the nomination — has begun frantically trying to reposition himself in the past week, installing a new campaign manager and controversial CEO to help him escape the straitjacket that his 14 months of incendiary comments and hard-edged policy positions have him in.
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"By creating a fiscal straitjacket through lower taxes, conservatives leave Washington with less money and raise the specter of deficits damaging the economy as a rationale to take away the benefits that millions of Americans depend on," wrote Julian Zelizer in The Atlantic shortly before Trump signed his cuts into law.
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The bot is also one of several artworks in the show that play with fantasies of the desert as a great existential escape: a refuge for anyone (or anything) seeking to shed the straitjacket of civilization, to vanish from sight or just be left alone under the purportedly sheltering sky.
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In whatever way you considered the items that the new Balenciaga designer sent onto the runway — for an audience with Mr. Rubchinskiy in a front-row seat — the radical tailoring proposition, contrasting architectonic suits proportioned to exaggerate the body in an almost cartoon way with others tight enough to straitjacket it, was above all about control.
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The RAA doesn't just seek to impose an accountant's straitjacket on issues of multi-dimensional complexity; it also would allow non-expert judges to second-guess the decisions made by an agency's technical experts, adding yet another hurdle to the regulatory process and giving industry-funded groups like the Chamber another opportunity to take out safeguards that hold big business accountable.
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While many Brexit supporters simply want to reduce the amount of immigration overall, others argue that the UK could have a more sensible immigration system if it didn't have the straitjacket of the EU. EU rules require the UK to admit all EU citizens who wants to move to Britain, whether or not they have good job prospects or English skills.
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"Schools must and will continue to support survivors and to be fair to both parties, we are required to do that, but federal guidance can be a straitjacket that forces schools to act in a way that may not further those goals," said Terry Hartle, the senior vice president of the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group.
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The final 100 pages of the book has riffs on Africa's Big Man politics, the motormouth chefs who grill meat in Kenyan markets (a particular Kenyan kind of wide boy who cheats his customers, but always with a smile), the petty traders, the freehearted truckers and the "twilight girls," who emerged from the racial straitjacket colonialism had imposed on the nation.
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" The modern art referred to was Abstract Expressionism, flaunted as quintessentially American during the Cold War era: "[I]n the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.
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In the latest publication of the papers concerning King George III, who ruled from 1760 until 1820, medical records show how much the king was subject to intense monitoring of everything from his sleep (from 1788-minute naps to a full seven hours at night) to how he had to be placed into a straitjacket — or waistcoat as they called it in the 18th century.
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Rick Lax, a magician who has worked in TV for years and helped create Wizard Wars, gives the competing examples of a box trick and a straitjacket escape: In the former case, where something new appears in the box, cutting away from the trick introduces an obvious problem for the audience, that the object could simply have been placed inside the box between cuts.
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