hamstrung's Usage Examples:

As a metaphor to be "hamstrung" suggests being limited, by external imposition or not, in a way that.

bottom" floor which produced a competitive level of downforce, but it was hamstrung by the Ferrari V12 engine which suffered excessive blow-by, reckoned to.

League officials were so fixated on national sponsorships that they hamstrung the teams' efforts to market themselves locally.

insistence on neutrality, rather than declaring war on the Axis Powers, hamstrung negotiations with the Allies and he was removed from government.

As expected, the offense performed well; Oakland was instead hamstrung by unexpectedly terrible starting pitching.

The venture was hamstrung by technical, reliability, and fuel consumption issues.

When training young or inexperienced dogs, the wolf would be hamstrung.

Two years later, however, Weber County pulled out, and the district was hamstrung by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s refusal to reclassify.

committee; however, many infrastructure projects in the city remained hamstrung by his reluctance to introduce new municipal taxes.

defunct by 1961, as Deutsch and Bonnet's differing design philosophies hamstrung further cooperation.

The work against heroin and opium was however hamstrung by US foreign policy considerations: during the Vietnam War for instance.

the American militia refused to advance into Lower Canada, Dearborn was hamstrung from the outset from utilizing all of his forces.

But in defiance of Saleh's warning, the people of the tribe hamstrung the camel.

When he tries to expose the web of blackmail, sex and espionage, he's hamstrung by his editors' liberal media bias.

'non-journalists' who actually observed the reality of the changes without being hamstrung by press conferences and filing deadlines.

" But they hamstrung it, so he said, "Enjoy life for another three days: this warning will.

[citation needed] "The whole country is being hamstrung by Telkom and restrictive legislation.

Injuries hamstrung the Magic from the start of the season as Grant Hill missed the entire.

played at the World Cup, Scott Murray in The Guardian writes Weah was "hamstrung by hailing from a global minnow".

The party's early activities were hamstrung by a lack of money, and so it was restricted to the sort of headline-grabbing.

Synonyms:

sinew; hamstring tendon; tendon;

Antonyms:

consume; brighten; achromatic; orient;