Word: hamstrung
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...past, government enforcement officials tried to freeze the bank accounts and confiscate the wages of delinquent aid recipients, but they are hamstrung by the inaccessibility of personal financial information. Automobile registrations, on the other hand, is a matter of public record...
...guaranteed plan for the withdrawal of Argentine troops. The alternative, Thatcher told the Commons, would play into Argentine hands. "It would be too easy to say 'no military activities during negotiations,' " she said in reply to a question from Opposition Leader Foot. "We should then be hamstrung. The people on the islands would still be under the heel of the invader, while Argentina increased its activities on the mainland, with supplies and reserves, to attack us at their will...
...from the U.S. had convinced the country's military commanders that a rightist monopoly of the most important jobs in the government might cause Congress to cut off military aid. Without Washington's largesse, which is expected to total $362 million in 1982, the military would be hamstrung in its fight against the leftist guerrillas seeking to topple the government. The generals therefore insisted on a respectable moderate as provisional President. Their preferred candidate was Magaña, who was also acceptable to the U.S. and to a faction of the P.C.N., the old political...
...destroying the Bruins, the Crimson suffered two injuries, making the netwomen literally hamstrung to field a team for this weekend's Ivy tournament. Freshman Deanne Loonin pulled her hamstring muscle while claiming a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Brown's Betsy Epstein Debbie Kaufman won her singles match, but aggravated a sore knee in the process...
...Nations to investigate its yellow-rain charges; last November the U.N. sent an eight-member team to interview refugees in Thailand. The team was denied visas to Laos and Viet Nam and for complex diplomatic reasons did not try to make on-site inspections in Cambodia. Not surprisingly, the hamstrung investigation found no evidence to "prove or disprove the allegations." Even so, the U.N. team reported that refugee accounts "could suggest a possible use of some sort of chemical-warfare agents" and recommended that the inquiry continue. The team visited Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan in February, and will issue...