Worse, so many doctors, scientists, and lab technicians had been drafted into military service that civilian operations were hamstrung. |
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A consideration of a filmmaker's poetics should not be aesthetically hamstrung by a flow of cultural associations. |
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Its construction has been hamstrung by numerous delays and corruption scandals. |
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That would give the government a much-needed handle on economic policy-making, which has been hamstrung by opposition obstructionism. |
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Is NASA too hamstrung by those restraints to do something as bold as returning to the moon and going to Mars? |
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The Kangaroos, once hamstrung by the constraints of a reduced salary cap, are chasing hard. |
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Manufacturing has slowed to a trickle, hamstrung by shortages of fuel and imported components. |
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It is false to suggest the Act is delaying the process or that development is hamstrung. |
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Oh absolutely, he does actually mean well, he's just hamstrung by a severe shortfall in the social skills department. |
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At first, drug companies were hamstrung by the need for an extensive summary of side effects whenever brand names were mentioned. |
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But our currency is hamstrung by severe structural distortions in both the economic and financial spheres. |
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He hammered the remnants of his blade into the chest of the one who shattered it, and jumped to avoid a swipe that would have hamstrung him. |
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The early, undercapitalized months of the company were difficult for Young, who felt hamstrung by his lack of resources. |
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The monetarists are hopelessly hamstrung by their fixation on narrow money. |
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It is hamstrung by a crazy quilt patchwork of warring state commissions, sanctioning bodies, and dubious fight contracts. |
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The Scottish economy cannot afford the tourist industry to be hamstrung by red tape and bureaucracy any longer. |
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But by now, it should be clear that apart from the baleful influence of science, and to a degree because of it, modernism has been completely hamstrung by its realism. |
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Perhaps he was hamstrung by his hamstring, which Wenger said was cause for serious concern. |
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Europe cannot afford to let either stronger or weaker regions be hamstrung in their development. |
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We are hamstrung by the annual ceilings, and the multiannual financial framework is of no use in crisis years. |
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Exchange rate policy is hamstrung by the absence of European consensus on the subject. |
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Why has that not gone out? Have the government and its officials been too busy, too hamstrung? |
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Yet many developing countries are hamstrung by their own policies that inhibit entrepreneurship. |
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Yet, too often, effective decision-making is hamstrung by the inability of these Member States to work together in their mutual interest. |
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But if you look at it across different income strata, particularly for middle income Canadians, you find that those Canadians are hamstrung. |
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Fluctuating commodity prices and a lack of credit have hamstrung Canadian steel producers, affecting profitability and future growth. |
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That has further hamstrung the ability of the commercial fleet to catch fish right now. |
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Because the Germans and the French are not consuming enough, private investment also remains hamstrung. |
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If one of my daughters were to meet a young man and they wanted to get married and he wants to provide for his family, he will be hamstrung. |
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However, the Medical Council feels it is hamstrung by 20-year-old legislation which restricts it from expanding the council to cope with its heavy workload. |
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Consumers, hamstrung by low confidence and a weak recovery, are reluctant to spend and borrow. |
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But Netanyahu may be hamstrung by a lack of international support, reports Dan Ephron. |
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A year into the job and still stuck in what he terms a transitional period, he is hamstrung by the need to offload several players before he can add to the squad. |
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They were simple conversations, ultimately hamstrung by translation. |
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Encyclicals have long been considered an imperfect genre, hampered by their style and hamstrung by the need to reconcile competing political and bureaucratic factions. |
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Smith's fearsomely focused narratives and majestically brutal accompaniment are alternately highlighted or hamstrung by perverse and frustrating production decisions. |
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Determined terrorists have become adept at forging EU passports at precisely the time that the agency charged with blocking their entry is hamstrung by a lack of personnel. |
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More familiar, but less important, were the internal squabbles and petty jealousies among civil rights leaders that hindered, but never hamstrung, the movement for justice. |
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The impact of reform will be slow and it is hamstrung by being unable to aggressively reflate its economy by the euro's self-defeating rules so clearly in need of change. |
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In fact, members of the medical advisory board will be severely hamstrung unless the company is prepared to provide them with certain marketing materials. |
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Come to think of it, both men are low-income stick-in-the-muds, hamstrung by past women, unable to escape dark, stifling homes, and psychologically unstable. |
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Public administration would be hamstrung if courts were free to second-guess reasonable administrative decisions. |
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Would the member prefer to see a time, as in years past, when governments were hamstrung and shackled, one arm behind them, without any kind of flexibility in terms of moving forward? |
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Although there was much in the Alma Ata approach that was forward-thinking and innovative, the take-up and full application of these principles was hamstrung in many poor countries by the wider economic context. |
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But the campaign has been hamstrung by scaremongering zealots. Some Nigerian Muslims believe that the polio vaccine is part of an American plot to depopulate poor countries. |
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Canadian police are hamstrung and Ottawa must do more. |
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Yet he feels that small business is hamstrung by government regulations. |
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The Act has hamstrung Band Councils for more than a century, denying them the most rudimentary governance tools that would allow them to address the needs and interests of their communities. |
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I never believed that because I have always been convinced that in those areas where the Union can take action, where it is not hamstrung by national vetoes, major results can be achieved if we work with Washington. |
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Even at this point, when we are a little hamstrung, the government now still has the ability to vote for this motion to allow us the flexibility at committee to bring in the proper amendments. |
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Most other regimes are either less sophisticated, or they are hamstrung by non-adjustable capital charges that are set at a minimum by law. Then there is the Brussels hurdle. |
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Yet watching two main party leaders concur so rancorously and babyishly with each other on Wednesday, for what seemed as long as possible, it suddenly felt rather easy to sympathise with the hamstrung PC Plod. |
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But we can't be hamstrung in our own country by having these gatekeepers effectively holding that money up in an environment where, frankly, there's a real constraint on shelf space. |
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Like the compradore elites, the revolutionaries of the former colonies are hamstrung by their hollow mimicry. |
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In retrospect, I was hamstrung by three things. |
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Unfortunately, while our fishermen are hamstrung and their vessels in a state of disrepair, factory ships from Japan, Russia and elsewhere are plundering the fishery resource in French waters. |
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As we have seen, Member States cooperating on a bilateral basis, without being hamstrung by needlessly heavy institutional constraints, have produced results. |
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The hamstrung State environmental Protection Administration might get ministerial status. |
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Defeat would hasten Benitez's exit from Liverpool, but Blackwell claims the bean counters have hamstrung Luton's chances of recording an FA Cup shock. |
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But they came nowhere near it, piling the pressure on the rookie boss and his squad after a performance he admitted was hamstrung by botch ups in attack and defence. |
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The company claims it is being hamstrung by government regulations. |
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Hamstrung by the lower standards of the boom years, it reported that it was still coping with the overhang of the bubble. |
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