Examples of hamstrung

• We are now no longer hamstrung by the logical analysis of not, which requires a propositional form for the negation to stand over.

• Once there, the missionaries found themselves hamstrung by bureaucratic red tape.

• Medicaid, in fact, stands out as a remarkable oasis of spending and coverage growth amid a parched desert of hamstrung antipoverty programmes.

• The debate often hamstrung the physicians.

• Disappointments such as these revealed that fear of electoral reprisal from racial conservatives hamstrung many politicians who might, in other vicinities, have been far more liberal on racial issues.

• We are once again in one sense hamstrung by our own rules of procedure.

• It has hamstrung us for too many years, and has given considerable advantages to other world competitors for international trade.

• We might make a small mistake and be unnecessarily hamstrung about it.

• Yet such industries are being hamstrung by this blind, obsessive, idiotic, inflexible imposition of cash limits.

• The local authorities have been hamstrung in their attempts to deal with the situation.

• He is also hamstrung by the fact that he has not resolved his attitude towards flat-rate contributions and earnings-related contributions.

• Such specifications have hamstrung our designers and manufacturers, whereas this new arrangement will free them.

• I do not believe that foundation trusts will work, because the manager will still be hamstrung by such interference.

• The assembly would be hamstrung until after the election three months later.

• In that way they were entirely hamstrung and were generally unable to proceed with their schemes unless they went elsewhere for their loans.