hamstrung

It sounds like you're even more hamstrung than I thought you were."

This led to a hamstrung which left the union nearly non-existent.

We know, because a hamstrung department official tipped us off to the violations.

A hamstrung camel is left on the grave to die.

Andy Goldberg's direction has a hamstrung quality; what to do with these people who are sitting down most of the time?

Pribluda looked more like a hamstrung pig than anything else.

Sri Lanka's hamstrung hero is on and the trumpets are out.

But while the opposing sides fight in court, it is the hamstrung teachers who struggle in the classroom.

Cadillacs were the kind of thing that made America such a wonderful place, along with the trusting population and the hamstrung police departments.

We're more or less hamstrung until we get definitive orders from Washington, and it could be a day or so before that happens.

The bills would gut what is left of initiative in the hamstrung bureau that's supposed to control firearms.

A hamstrung selection process could tarnish the festival's credibility.

The entire section shuddered like a hamstrung beast.

Callina thrashed on the floor, shrieking like a hamstrung animal.

Opportunistic Democrats are already vowing to boycott the hamstrung ethics panel.

Second, this is a much more searching, heartfelt effort than its stilted and hamstrung manner would suggest.

"There're times I make allowances for you behaving like a hamstrung pig, lover.

It may be that a hamstrung Bush administration is a better bet than the same crew being free to act as it pleases.

I get very hamstrung in Rome.

She fell like a hamstrung deer.

Jason rasped, prodding the hamstrung man with his sword until the latter also surrendered.

We're more hamstrung than a cop.

I don't buy the "hamstrung" argument either.

Germans are the most hamstrung, because of automobile safety rules that forbid, among other adaptations, tinted windows.

The jacks lifted the clattering left track clear of the surface and the tank spun like a hamstrung buffalo.