Word: hamstrung
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...richer communities will be somewhat hamstrung by not being able to increase spending by more than 1.5 percent. But considering that the richest communities now spend than the poorest ones and will not have to reduce spending at all, it seems that Johnny will still be able to sound out B-M-W in Grosse Pointe Park...
...ultimate victim of repressed memory may be the psychotherapeutic profession itself. "Therapists are terrified," says MPD specialist Kluft. "Many are feeling very hamstrung because they fear any time they ask a question, it can result in a lawsuit." Instead of seeing a patient "as a person in pain and in need of help," Kluft complains, "the therapist is looking at a potential litigant. Some people have discontinued treating trauma patients...
...real tragedy, however, would be if the Clinton Administration became so hamstrung by public opinion that it hesitated to involve the U.S. in other matters that actually did have grave consequences for vital American interests...
...national drug strategy to the Senate Judiciary Committee, only to be met with impatience and testiness. Brown provided a cursory plan in which the Clinton Administration promised to focus on providing treatment for hard-core drug users and decreasing the occurrence of drug-related violence. "You are being hamstrung by an Administration that doesn't give a damn," said Senator Orrin Hatch...
...population. Two thousand U.S. Marines aboard amphibious ships in the Indian Ocean are available for the job, and % Pentagon sources say an additional 15,000 or more would be ready, provided that the U.N. Security Council approves the initiative this week. Somali strongman General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who has hamstrung the oversight of an existing 500-man Pakistani unit, says somewhat ambiguously that he welcomes the U.S. initiative. But even if he doesn't, U.S. officials said, the decision should be made regardless of Aidid's views. The critical factor is concern for the 2 million Somalis who risk starvation...