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Chris -- 2018-04-11
And even more mop-up of hand/ham substitutions. Of course “handstrung” is a word in its own right, but it’s usually applied to necklaces rather than people. Examples:
The premise is simple. Re-imagine the novel as a photographic picture book, scenes depicted without being handstrung by budget or casting.
http://feelinglistless.blogspot.com/200 … chive.html
This interview with Marie Andersson, lead singer of the Sahara Hotnights includies some pithy comments about how rock bands can be handstrung by gender perception
http://feelinglistless.blogspot.com/200 … chive.html
Despite being handstrung by Sosa he put a team capable of winning 90 games with some midseason trades on the field.
http://www.all-baseball.com/cubreporter … 20078.html
I’m sorry, if you produce a MacOS X, even under the best conditions you’re still going to be handstrung by the fact that Apple will need to test their operating system on the numerous hardware combinations
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_ … 30&rows=45
Sometimes members can offer suggestions about how things work in practice that differs from the way things are supposed to work—either because of actual experience or because a program representative is somewhat handstrung by the official terms and conditions of a program.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthre … 614&page=1
But Ashcroft and Bush act like they’ve been handstrung by an “activist court” granted that same court made you the president despite what the people by number wanted.
http://ermca.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1 … stcount=31
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Hmmm, I now see that, in 2006, Pat had already mentioned handstrung which I added to his 2008 post last week. I have here another variant, perhaps the result of misinterpretation by the ‘ard of ‘earing or created accidentally by h-droppers.
But armstrung by circumstances beyond his control, having no ministers in place and being a few days in office, he had to call for …
And some, if not most, of the Directors of these agencies are civil servants who are usually armstrung by bureaucratic principles.
... with their criminalities all in the name of politics, as we had a compromised police force and a judiciary armstrung by the executive.
... State Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for SARS-Related Abuses and Other Matters became armstrung by its creating authority, ...
I suspect strong-armed may be lurking in the background, ready to lend hassistance.
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