A lame duck managing director would hamstring the Fund.

Hate to hamstring you, but you will take precautions? Mac.

We do not believe that, as some suggest, such a step would hamstring the Council by imposing rigid guidelines.

So when I stand in these legs, my hamstring and my glutes are contracted, as they would be had I had feet and were standing on the ball of my feet.

Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid because of them for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.

Otherwise, the vast explosion of public debt will permanently depress per capita growth by one third or more in most advanced economies a stunning permanent stagnation and would hamstring governments ability to combat the next recession.

A related argument is that domestic political processes can hamstring a government in the great game of poker or chess that international politics is supposed to be. As Obama has just discovered, having a legislature that clearly does not want to go to war weakens the executive s hand in international negotiations.