Word: hamstrung
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...plotted their operation in Europe and Asia, and carried it out in the U.S. Bill Clinton recognized this "transnational" fact of life in 1998, when he named Richard Clarke, a National Security Council aide, as his counterterrorism czar to supervise the battle both at home and abroad. Clarke was hamstrung because he had no control over other agencies' budgets. But he made a strong case for having one person oversee the attack on terrorism and knock heads in the bureaucracy...
...fragility of life that we too often take for granted, but the fact that we are here, at one of history’s greatest institutions of learning. Although we may have acquired countless accolades in our relatively short lives, teenagers abroad with as much talent and ambition are hamstrung by corrupt governments and hampered by illnesses that the Western world has long since conquered...
...Rumsfeld plainly wanted to do more - he was hamstrung right from the get-go. So you look at Bush and Cheney, in terms of setting the administration's agenda, and you figure they decided they had bigger fish to fry, starting with...
This lack of recruiting power hurts the men's volleyball team more substantially than other teams. Football, which boasts a roster of well over 90 players, would not be severely hamstrung with one or two fewer recruits. Volleyball, on the other hand, often depends on recruiting to fill its roster, turning to walk-ons when talented athletes are turned away by the Admissions Office...
...uniform have another reason not to go along with the U.S. in its war on terrorism. In 1999, responding to the Indonesian military's brutality in East Timor, the U.S. Congress passed a law that banned U.S. training and education for Indonesian soldiers, which officials complain has hamstrung the military's ability to service its fleet of U.S.-made warplanes...