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Examples
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So I say, flexibility, yes; reform, yes; but paralysis and straightjacketing, no.
President To American Society Of Newspaper Editors ITY National Archives 1995
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The Burger King commercial with the "men in the white coats" straightjacketing the character?
CHE > Latest news 2010
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The Burger King commercial with the "men in the white coats" straightjacketing the character?
CHE > Latest news 2010
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That regulation, while well-intended, has the effect of straightjacketing the industry, meanwhile preventing usurpers and change and innovation, and making banks that are already too big to fail, too bigger to fail.
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Why do we need a straightjacketing amendment when we have too many already?
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Why do we need a straightjacketing amendment when we have too many already?
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