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But China's efforts to increase supplies of any kind of electricity have been hamstrung by a lack of transmission lines.

Hurd's obsession with driving up profits left the company's staff demoralized and its ability to innovate hamstrung.

It is hamstrung by an absence of new models and negative reports on the quality of its vehicles.

Recalcitrant backbenchers hamstrung the prime minister's attempt to railroad the bill through the Commons.

In India and Sri Lanka, restrictive labour laws have hamstrung the emergence of a more competitive manufacturing base.

Rich countries also seem to be more hamstrung than China.

Power producers are hamstrung by market forces on inputs and by the diktats of a centrally-planned economy on pricing.

They like to size you up before they make their real move, like jackals finding out if the prey is as weak and hamstrung as it looks.

We have grown accustomed to the fact that collective global action is hamstrung by institutional and diplomatic rigor mortis.

Granted, Merkel has been hamstrung by voters who are in no mood to see their taxes diverted to profligate neighbors.

But Western donors, hamstrung by the effects of the financial crisis, have been slow (or reluctant) to respond.

American consumers remain hamstrung by debt, collapsed home prices and a dismal job market.

Furthermore, the raters were hamstrung by the conflicts of interest inherent in being paid by issuers to assess their bonds.

Many Republicans argue that an investigation would leave the CIA feeling betrayed and hamstrung in its pursuit of terrorists.

The result has overturned fears of a weak coalition government, hamstrung by its divergent parts.

In the technology sector, many foreign groups have been hamstrung by regulatory barriers.

Western companies are hamstrung because the legality of the scheme cannot be called into question.

The Fed is hamstrung by rising prices, while the government is needing to think about getting its finances back in order.

But the United States is hamstrung by its own rules that prevent the government from financing world fairs.

In other words, having to get consensus on every decision hamstrung Google's ability to act, or meant it spread itself too broadly.

Policymakers should have intervened to curb the excesses but were hamstrung by free-market ideology.

For months, Europe has been hamstrung by what one seasoned observer of the global economy describes as three 'No's'

It is fortunate that, unlike in the early 1930s, countries are generally not hamstrung by a gold standard.

Could it be that women have been hamstrung by a self-limiting belief?

In the short run, American consumers are hamstrung by wage stagnation and rising unemployment.

Italy and Spain, meanwhile, look hamstrung by a loss of competitiveness following a long period in which unit wage costs have risen.

What's worse, a Chinese LP putting money into the same fund might resent the fund being hamstrung because of its foreign taint.

In the past, many teams have been too hamstrung by the salary cap to fully go after players.

The new supervisory authorities are also hamstrung.

Why bother to negotiate with the Palestinians, some intelligence people may feel, when they can be constantly hamstrung by such trickery?

Of course, the iPad 2 is cheaper, but it's hamstrung by its very essence: a glorified smartphone.

Mechanical Phantom of the Opera is hamstrung by cards and membership cards making machine on rollers, blanket and plates, and so on.

We adults are hamstrung by our own plans and expectations.

When mobs still run away faster then you after you hamstrung them.

His efforts were hamstrung by her one remarks.

But the Chinese consumer is basically hamstrung by a lack of purchasing power.

The project was hamstrung by lack of funds.

In addition, Apec is hamstrung by basic differences of approach.

They are not hamstrung by inhibitions.

Many MNCs in China were hamstrung by bureaucratic red tape and simply could not react as quickly as many local companies.

But the SEC has been hamstrung by a lack of co-operation from regulators in China.

Sherman's influence, for example, helped stop Grant from resigning when the latter felt himself hamstrung by orders from Washington.

The new president is looking hamstrung even before he gets going