Word: straitjacketing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would not have agreed to become Finance Minister. TIME: Do you plan on remaining in politics when your term is up? Veltchev: Most likely not. I'm trying not to make long-term plans for myself, only for Bulgaria. TIME: Many people feel that the IMF keeps you straitjacketed. Veltchev: I felt that was more the case last year than this year. These days, thanks to my reputation, the IMF is more lenient and gives me more freedom. But even last year, the straitjacket was a comfortable one, because they are acting for our own good and are recommending policies...
...forcing the state government to adequately fund education, but they also passed a proposal restricting the state's ability to raise taxes. So the state had to increase school funding but wasn't allowed to raise money to pay for it, and the government tied itself into a fiscal straitjacket...
...contained a number of national statistics about assaults by “male fraternity members” that were never justifiably or directly linked to any events at Harvard’s final clubs. It refused to recognize that final clubs differ greatly amongst themselves and tried instead to straitjacket all of the clubs into the stereotype of abusive, dangerous institutions. For example, the RUS never properly explained how the Porcellian Club could attack women when it refuses to admit non-members (and, by implication, all females) beyond its foyer. Misleading information that seeks to lump the eight different clubs...
...scandal as another indicator of the sexual dysfunction at the heart of the church. And they have a point. Celibacy is an onerous burden that can easily distort a person's psyche. Moreover, many sexually conflicted men gravitate to the priesthood precisely because it promises to put a straitjacket on their compulsions and confusions. Alas, that straitjacket can often come undone. The absence of women in the higher reaches of the church further distorts the atmosphere; and the presence of large numbers of gay priests--forced to preach against their very identity and fight against their own need for love...
Dissent: A Progressive Straitjacket...