Word: hamstrung
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Springfield was also hamstrung by the absence of co-captian Andy Rice, sidelined with a broken...
...Ford's vetoes. Unlike the President, Mathias early favored financial aid to New York City. He seeks national health insurance and is far less restrained than the Administration about attacking unemployment. At the same time, he believes the Democrats have abused the federal role and in the process hamstrung the private sector. The Maryland Senator has little trouble defining his brand of moderate Republicanism-even though it involves a sizable reach back into history. His principles are the same, he contends, as those that motivated Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal...
...Tryon's narrative and descriptive talent is often hamstrung by annoying mannerisms and cliches (in a scant two lines he tosses off "fresh as a daisy" and "in the wink of an eye"). He can resist neither foreign phrases nor their quick translation ("Entendu. Understood"). He fussily overexplains his English as well: "Her husband was a hatter. Yes, a maker of hats." Some of the language is, alas, inexplicable: "His nose was long and authentic-looking...
...short term, barring miscalculation, continued U.S. brokerage is likely to prevent such a war. Along with their internal problems that counsel against renewed fighting, Arabs and Israelis alike know the U.S. is too hamstrung by its presidential election this year to assert the leadership necessary to produce new momentum in lieu of war. But 1977 will be the year of the crunch. Israel is fearful-and the Arabs hopeful-of heavy postelection pressure on Jerusalem to withdraw from occupied territories. Beset by unrest on the West Bank, a faltering economy and a bitterly divided leadership, Israel could find such pressure...
Unfortunately, OSHA soon found itself hamstrung due to a lack of vigorous political and financial support on the part of both Congress and the Nixon Administration. In the period prior to August, 1974, over one hundred bills amending the original OSHA act were introduced in the House and the Senate. Most would have curbed the agency's enforcement authority; some would have gutted it entirely. Furthermore, in line with the Nixon Administration's attempts to reduce the size and cost of HEW and other federal social welfare programs, OSHA and NIOSH received only small increases in their original, inadequate funding...