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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cameron knew how good his son really was, and encouraged him to break free of the pop straitjacket .
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Designed for a government of clerks, civil service became a straitjacket in an era of knowledge workers.
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However, as no votes have been recorded at these junctures the arithmetic straitjacket has remained largely hidden.
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I spent that night in a straitjacket of fear.
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People realize that we lived in a straitjacket for along time.
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The smiling realists are relieved that good old-fashioned national interest may burst out of the straitjacket of Brussels directives.