0 a tendon (= part that connects a muscle to a bone) at the back of the upper part of your leg -- подколенное сухожилие
a hamstring injury
1 to make it difficult for a person, team, or organization to do something -- срывать (планы, усилия и т. д.)
Here they will be hamstrung and restricted by one thing or another.
The industry, however, is at present hamstrung by unfair trade.
They will be hamstrung in capital terms, in just the same way as management buy-outs in any other industry have been.
How can we help ourselves if we are hamstrung by regulations?
I may point out that the efforts of the water boards are really hamstrung by interest charges.
We have made it clear in the past that we shall not be rushed into giving specific dates and thereby being hamstrung by them.
In my view, unless the problem of national assistance is solved, local government authorities will be hamstrung.
In that way they were entirely hamstrung and were generally unable to proceed with their schemes unless they went elsewhere for their loans.