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"hamstrung" Definitions
  1. having been made powerless or useless; thwarted: The candidates also face a housing market crisis, subway strikes, and a hamstrung government.
  2. having had the hamstring tendon cut: She fell like a hamstrung deer.
  3. the simple past tense and past participle of hamstring.

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"We are really hamstrung right now in our understanding of exposure, and we're hamstrung in all sorts of complicated ways," Azrael said.
Still, the work is hamstrung by a plethora of weaknesses.
Analysts say the party is also hamstrung by internal divisions.
If you think that's hamstrung the businesses, however, you're mistaken.
But you have an organization essentially hamstrung by its mandate.
Without such changes, Williams warned, policymakers will find themselves hamstrung.
How severely hamstrung they actually are is difficult to stay.
Now it is hamstrung by slowing adoption and declining revenue.
But the iPad was also hamstrung in its earliest incarnation.
Northwestern's attempts at a comeback were hamstrung by foul trouble.
"I definitely feel kind of hamstrung or helpless," he said.
But Mueller also reiterated that Congress is not so hamstrung.
But they're very hamstrung by the relationship with the big retailers.
Clashes between telecoms and banks hamstrung mobile banking applications in Nigeria.
This, to be fair, hamstrung the early parts of the season.
She believed their claims that they were hamstrung, when they weren't.
Coming out, we believe the shares are likely to remain hamstrung.
She said the federal support latter hamstrung them in many ways.
All new major regulations would be hamstrung, even business-friendly deregulation.
Johnson says his candidacy is hamstrung by a polling Catch-22.
Hamstrung by outdated plants, PREPA has not raised rates in decades.
Recovery remains slow and hamstrung by limited financial resources, he said.
But now, under a unified Republican government, he seemed paradoxically hamstrung.
In the past, political activism was largely hamstrung by poor communication technology.
Any one of those episodes would have likely hamstrung a lesser candidate.
Across Turkey, the "No" campaign has been hamstrung by restrictions and intimidation.
The alleged misstatements "have hamstrung the search for the truth," GM wrote.
But the debt load firms placed on those retailers left them hamstrung.
You have greater flexibility if your income isn't hamstrung by large debts.
The smallest towns are also hamstrung by a lack of administrative capacity.
Restrictions placed on marijuana cultivation by the federal government have hamstrung research.
It has been hamstrung by infighting and difficulties in identifying profitable projects.
The island is hamstrung by emigration and a 45 percent poverty rate.
This right applies even to employees otherwise hamstrung by forced arbitration agreements.
The loss of live sports has also hamstrung its cable network ESPN.
Temple's next drive, hamstrung by a Zach Allen sack, stalled at midfield.
If the bureau is hamstrung, borrowers will have lost a powerful watchdog.
But frankly, Hogg and gun control advocates are hamstrung by the House calendar.
This, former employees say, has hamstrung FF's efforts and deepened its financial woes.
Without sweeping administrative reforms, the government itself will remain hamstrung by inadequate capacity.
For a graphic on Jet Airways planes hamstrung by lessor defaults, see - tmsnrt.
I think, by the way, policy journalism is particularly hamstrung by false equivalence.
Facebook hasn't killed WhatsApp or hamstrung its encryption and that's been good too.
Airlines are hamstrung everywhere by anachronistic restrictions on their ability to do business.
For four out of five American households, Stadia is hamstrung from the start.
But implementation of the deal has been hamstrung by squabbling between armed groups.
The company's development of AI has been hamstrung by its stance on privacy.
Previously, the political system had been hamstrung without a president since May 337120.
Hamstrung with techniques developed in the 85033s, the government cannot accurately price coverage.
The financial drawbacks for implementing drones have hamstrung tech companies and retailers alike.
Ms. Brookshire seems hamstrung by a performance style straight out of period movies.
Within management teams, decision making is often hamstrung by the need for consensus.
But onerous budget cuts have hamstrung the agency's ability to bring the case.
Top Republicans, meanwhile, basked in the fissures which have Democrats hamstrung at the moment.
But the Europeans would have been hamstrung even if they had avoided such mistakes.
Because the board's findings are not binding, its members are ultimately hamstrung, Fort said.
That approach also hamstrung reaction to the Rohingya crisis that erupted in mid-2015.
Nor can Mr Renzi claim to have been hamstrung by factors beyond his control.
" It's really hamstrung lots of news organizations, who say, "Well, the president said it.
"As a customer just looking for tickets, you're really hamstrung by CoSport," Rose said.
Across Asia, conservative values and deep-rooted biases have hamstrung progress on gay rights.
It is also true that our peace operations are often hamstrung by inadequate resources.
But its use in commerce is hamstrung by high transaction costs and low speed.
Very, very few presidents have the controversy and turnover that have hamstrung Trump's Cabinet.
We must also address court cases that have hamstrung effective public campaign financing systems.
Android device makers, on the other hand, are hamstrung by carrier interference and bloatware.
The UN is unwieldy, and hamstrung by big-power rivalries and small-power greed.
Hamstrung by a roster depleted by injuries, Harden took a career-high 41 shots.
Many European countries, meanwhile, are seen as too hamstrung by regulations to be profitable.
But a serious diagnosis in January would leave you hamstrung until the following year.
While these groups speak freely, candidates and political parties are hamstrung by the law.
Comcast's involvement was hamstrung by regulators as part of its acquisition of NBC Universal.
"Squash" allows this latest avatar of the hamstrung Gurney gentlemen a bit more latitude.
Both at home and abroad, Britain's prime minister is hamstrung by her political fragility.
Juul officials contend their ability to offer such innovations is hamstrung by regulatory policies.
London (CNN Business)Boeing was already hamstrung in China by the 737 Max crisis.
Congressional Republicans, especially in the House, are hamstrung by their lack of legislative experience.
Political fighting has hamstrung the government's handling of deficits, corporate taxes and foreign debt.
Federal efforts to deliver supplies have also been hamstrung by the lack of infrastructure.
S. ties because he had been hamstrung by domestic U.S. politics, TASS news agency reported.
Being a private citizen, I can do more than if I was hamstrung by politics.
Efforts to push it through the state legislature were hamstrung by the body's operating speed.
The island is hamstrung by $70 billion of debt and a 45 percent poverty rate.
Nigeria has been hamstrung in months by rebel activity on pipelines and other oil facilities.
So its RCS play is also being hamstrung by a limited pool of compatible devices.
However, these efforts have been hamstrung by opposition from employees as well as local manufacturers.
Kerslake warned that civil servants were being hamstrung by ministerial indecision and unworkable customs plans.
Every move should be scrutinized, and every attempt to harm the environment should be hamstrung.
To be fair, the deck was stacked against the committees because they were severely hamstrung.
Hamstrung by a roster depleted by injuries, Harden took a career-high 41 shot attempts.
But he was hamstrung by most states' refusal to provide the digital data he needed.
Neither partner professed worry about finding enough potential investments, a problem that has hamstrung Sequoia.
Perhaps nothing has hamstrung the M.T.A. more than a maneuver Mr. Pataki introduced in 2000.
The other is a really crappy musical, presided over by a disappointingly hamstrung Will Smith.
Jimmy Carter, for instance, was famously disliked by congressional Democrats, and it hamstrung his agenda.
The four-term leader has been hamstrung by corruption cases in which he denies wrongdoing.
As a result, it picked up passengers from other carriers hamstrung by the plane's grounding.
Wartford, hamstrung by injuries, looked exhausted and contributed to its own downfall with poor defending.
Some measures already exist, but councils are hamstrung by the near-impossibility of enforcing them.
Government efforts to address these challenges are—and seemingly will remain—hamstrung by partisan politics.
The General Assembly is creaky, and the Security Council is hamstrung by resurgent geopolitical competition.
States could take steps to fix these problems, but Cassidy-Graham leaves them relatively hamstrung.
Banks and insurance companies like Citigroup are similarly hamstrung by regulations limiting ownership and business scope.
But the two products that came before the Surface Laptop were hamstrung by their biggest ideas.
His decision poses the risk that future investigations of presidents will be hamstrung from the start.
Since the very first episode, The Walking Dead has been hamstrung by the comics it's adapting.
But Penn State also said it is hamstrung by the fact that fraternities are off-campus.
Recchia was hamstrung by a gaffe-prone campaign, a Brooklyn address, and a bad Democratic year.
As usual, the biggest winners from a hamstrung IRS are wealthy Americans and cash-flush corporations.
Their efforts to wipe out terrorist strongholds may be hamstrung if they can't pay for it.
Political infighting hamstrung the Confederate war effort at times, most notably in the area of conscription.
"They're going to choose to go to a state that's not hamstrung by this," she said.
Redlining in housing markets deprived minority families of homes and hamstrung their ability to build wealth.
Other oil-producing countries are too small or hamstrung by political constraints to control the conversation.
The administration has been hamstrung by a slow rollout of testing, making it difficult to track.
But people working for Unwitting Incompetents have no power, and their supervisors are often hamstrung, too.
Rising college costs, the student loan crisis and federal budget cuts have broadly hamstrung higher education.
The shortage has hamstrung the time-sensitive rice and corn harvest in the state of Portuguesa.
Mr. Dorsey demonstrates a lack of self-awareness, indifference, and yogababble that have hamstrung stakeholder value.
"Domestic demand still looks pretty hamstrung by this monetary transmission process, which looks pretty gummed up."
But they believed they had been hamstrung by administration lawyers about exactly what could be said.
They argue it would have hamstrung Congress from being able to legislate on drug pricing issues.
Public-private partnerships are hamstrung by a lack of big operators able to ensure consistency and scale.
"He's hamstrung," said Muzaffar Chishti of the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan Washington-based think tank.
He spoke against the backdrop of a Canadian economy that has been hamstrung by weak crude prices.
But Republicans are hamstrung by a simple reality: Their political fortunes are still directly tied to Trump's.
Homebuilding has struggled this year, hamstrung by shortages of land and labor as well as expensive lumber.
There is just one problem: America's miners are being hamstrung by an arduous and uncertain regulatory scheme.
Congo is a study in the UN's failures, and the way the organisation is hamstrung by politics.
Congress has been hamstrung for more than a decade by any attempt to enact comprehensive immigration reform.
Do you enjoy games that feature a half-dozen pitching changes per team and hamstrung, frantic managers?
The Yellow Ribbon program helps ensure that veterans are not hamstrung by tuition debt while they reintegrate.
Apple, hamstrung by a lack of new ideas, failed products and leadership turmoil, had lost its way.
Such an outbreak is a challenge for Chinese authorities, and has hamstrung the government in the past.
Should he again choose to celebrate with a bang, the United States will find itself furiously hamstrung.
The program consistently missed deadlines and was hamstrung by its hasty creation and federal restrictions on funding.
He also addressed Mr. Fardon's claim that police officers had become hamstrung and too passive on patrol.
But for all the linguistic gymnastics, the film is hamstrung by its directors' lack of visual imagination.
Senate committees, largely hamstrung by divisive fights over cabinet nominees, have barely moved forward with any bills.
They seem to be sort of hamstrung by that, scared of that, not wanting to acknowledge that.
Amazon is the smart speaker leader for now, though it's hamstrung by not having its own phone.
Unlike the fake-out moment that occurred earlier in the season, the conversation after Season 6 felt hamstrung.
By comparison, Windows 10 Continuum is, well, not good, hamstrung by very limited app compatibility and poor performance.
"They explained to us, once again, that they really are hamstrung in terms of their authorities," Bagdoyan says.
The big concern for GeForce Now—and one that's hamstrung past cloud gaming attempts—was bandwidth and latency.
Home-grown innovation could help, but is hamstrung by policies that shovel capital towards China's least productive firms.
We are likely already stuck in a feedback loop of falling prices, low demand and hamstrung monetary policy.
Government efforts to put more people on the food assistance program are hamstrung by lack of financial resources.
The unresolved court case has hamstrung Argentina's finances by locking the country out of the global credit markets.
To some extent, Westinghouse also was hamstrung by the NRC, which imposed stringent requirements for the new reactors.
Paris has been hamstrung too by delays in the A400M troop carrier, which also lacks the necessary capacity.
Removing regulatory oversight of such a competitively-hamstrung sector is all-but guaranteed to make the problem worse.
Several said they fear he would be hamstrung by a limited role in President Trump's national security apparatus.
We're hamstrung We're operating with at least 380,000 fewer government employees who are furloughed because of the shutdown.
The agency, hamstrung by conflicting allegiances, has been lax in following up on reports of corruption and doping.
Until they go professional, athletes are hamstrung in their ability to secure money from sources like endorsement deals.
The other eurozone members are hamstrung with an overvalued currency, while Germany effectively enjoys a significantly undervalued one.
Residential construction has been hamstrung by rising prices for building materials and shortages of land and skilled workers.
The researchers explained that the response to María was hamstrung by federal staffing deficiencies and lack of resources.
It would also fail to address the fundamental operational and fiscal problems that have hamstrung Puerto Rico's economy.
Home building has struggled this year, hamstrung by shortages of land and labor as well as expensive lumber.
The House of Representatives passed a bill to provide financial relief to Americans hamstrung by the novel coronavirus.
I had a great editor, too, I just think she was hamstrung, too, like the speed and everything.
The plaintiffs' case has none of the technical problems that hamstrung the Wisconsin and Maryland challenges this year.
And while central banks are hamstrung by low rates, fighting low inflation will increasingly fall to fiscal policy.
Delta Air Lines doesn't have any Maxes and it won market share from airlines hamstrung by the grounding.
It has also engendered some pity from those who see Congress as hamstrung by a dysfunctional White House.
Tesla is hamstrung in this area because its entire business is premised on selling cars to individual buyers.
But the effort has been hamstrung by repeated delays and political distractions since Trump took office in January.
But he was hamstrung by fiscal commitments under a $57 billion IMF financing deal he signed last year.
Apart from an economic slowdown, there is an ongoing crisis in the financial sector, which has hamstrung lending.
But these are limited efforts, and the nonprofit is hamstrung by the terms of the Public Broadcasting Act.
Building owners said the changes will leave landlords hamstrung, unable to charge enough rent to maintain their buildings.
Sarandos is attempting to position Netflix as the guardian of cinema, which, he says, is being hamstrung by Cannes.
Now, it's Rubio who's been hamstrung by his Washington and establishment ties and apostasies with the base on immigration.
Others complain of feeling hamstrung because they need to reach voters but worry about publicizing their events too widely.
But if a Brexit left the euro hamstrung, that would have a bigger effect on the basket, he noted.
In his eyes the humanities today are static and blinkered, hamstrung by their failure to acknowledge their evolutionary roots.
Analysts have said such a patchwork government may struggle to last until 2018, and that policymaking could be hamstrung.
Mario Kart 8 was a lovingly crafted game hamstrung by a crummy console that lived in your living room.
Our nation's agricultural industry would be hamstrung by costly and unnecessary land use restrictions, which would stifle growth opportunities.
Political appointees were never approved to leadership roles and the rank and file staffers fled the increasingly hamstrung department.
That selection came even after Christie had fired Stepien after the Bridgegate scandal that's hamstrung the governor's political career.
Its finance sector is in crisis mode, which has hamstrung lending, while the manufacturing sector is struggling, economists said.
But she felt "hamstrung" when she had to lock it up before entering secure spaces at the State Department.
But with Uber seeking to set a different tone, Mr. Gold was hamstrung in how hard he could push.
The shale resources are also considered costly and are hamstrung by mountainous geology, water scarcity and high land costs.
Hamstrung in the minority, Republicans wouldn't have the votes to make changes without support from at least some Democrats.
The status quo is a good arrangement for lawyers, accountants and lobbyists, but it has hamstrung the broader economy.
Spanish professional surfer Garazi Sánchez points out that female surfers are also hamstrung by a lack of financial support.
But when you encounter her at home, in a state of vulnerability, her hamstrung romantic aspirations can be devastating.
WERE YOU HAMSTRUNG FROM SPEAKING OUT BY REGULATORS DID YOU PERSONALLY WANT TO BE ABLE TO GIVE PEOPLE MORE INFORMATION?
But bankers believe Japan is hamstrung in what it can do in the run-up to G7 meetings in May.
Collin Gillespie and Robinson-Earl went a combined 0-of-8 from behind the arc, which hamstrung the Wildcats offense.
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Zimbabwe is facing a severe shortage of dollars, which has hamstrung its capacity to import fuel, medicines and now electricity.
In 2016 she said that increases in violence in cities like Chicago or Baltimore could be because police felt hamstrung.
You know, the people on the left -- MACCALLUM: And are we hamstrung in this area in New York right now?
He told me he thinks "the military's ability to prevail has been hamstrung by political considerations" during the Obama administration.
Consumer advocates had said the move would leave investigators hamstrung as they tried to root out cases of possible wrongdoing.
Many foreign traders have stopped accepting bond notes as legal tender, leaving businesses such as millers, brewers and miners hamstrung.
A $21 billion asset sale plan for this year and next has been hamstrung by court decisions freezing some deals.
It's the latest piece of good news for the fast food chain, which had been hamstrung by E. coli outbreaks.
He oversees the documents at the Justice Department there since Jeff Sessions has been recused and hamstrung, if you will.
Pemex has battled declining oil production levels for a decade now and remains hamstrung by approximately US$22029bn in debt.
Puerto Rico, hamstrung by a surge in emigration and a 45 percent poverty rate, faces $70 billion in total debt.
How good is Apple's AI going to be compared to Google's, which isn't as hamstrung by pledges of user privacy?
The coal-fired power plants are hamstrung by inadequate fuel supplies from the coal mines controlled by pro-Russian separatists.
All other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies are hamstrung by various federal laws that prohibit crucial CUAS functions.
Krikorian said the national party is hamstrung to gain more information about alleged attacks because of a lack of visibility.
The surprise order is welcome news for Boeing, which entered the air show hamstrung by the fallout from the crashes.
The automakers are hamstrung by the fact that particular parts for certain models are made exclusively by Meridian Lightweight Technologies.
The disaster, the federal suit says, has heightened economic and spiritual pain in a region hamstrung by poverty and drought.
U.S. homebuilders are thrilled with demand for housing, but they say they are being hamstrung by rising costs for lumber.
There's also the Clean Power Plan — President Obama's contribution to the Paris Climate accords — that is now hamstrung in litigation.
The French would like something more vigorous, but Mr. Juncker is hamstrung by German fears about prohibitive tariffs on cars.
Investors too have opposed some transactions saddled with excessive leverage or aggressive documentation, particularly from borrowers hamstrung by cyclical industries.
Republicans currently hold a 20163-34 majority in the chamber, a majority that has hamstrung the efforts of Democratic Gov.
He was hamstrung in part by an injury to quarterback Andy Dalton that put Jeff Driskel in the starting lineup.
But she is hamstrung by a military-drafted Constitution that divides power between the generals and her quasi-civilian government.
Corporations trying to handle large-scale litigation are also hamstrung by tighter budgets, the general counsels said in the survey.
With the Rockets hamstrung by frontcourt injuries, notably center Dwight Howard and forward/center Donatas Motiejunas, Smith fills a void.
SS: Are you being hamstrung not only by the European broader pace, but also by your own shareholders, as well?
Trump came into office wanting to improve relations with Russia, a desire that was hamstrung by the election interference allegations.
Outside the region, however, the lack of verifiable data and incomplete projections of the coronavirus outbreak's effects have hamstrung policymakers.
Unless changes happen very quickly, the next Democratic president will be hamstrung trying to communicate with a diminished bully pulpit.
Stocks have been hamstrung by signs of weak consumer spending and waning enthusiasm over a recovery in European corporate earnings.
Ferguson works well at range, and it was by mucking about out at range that Nurmagomedov hamstrung himself against Johnson.
Hamstrung by some of the world's highest cargo rates, railways are also being priced out by cheaper road and air transport.
Poorly run clinical trials have hamstrung the field before, and a headlong rush without more understanding could send it spiraling now.
The central bank is hamstrung: if it lowers rates to deter foreign money, it risks stoking up the domestic economy further.
At first glance, it might be hard to see why Trump would feel hamstrung by the Russia controversies engulfing his administration.
Cuban has also predicted recently that Trump would be a "puppet president" hamstrung by a lack of experience and intellectual vigor.
Neither quite replicates the experience of the other and both are considerably hamstrung versus the more powerful (and expensive) MacBook Pro.
But when cannabis research is hamstrung by marijuana's status as a substance illegal under federal law, it's a start, she said.
Cavill is also likeable enough but, again, hamstrung by the twisty, convoluted inventions designed to limit his abilities during long stretches.
The designer, Robert Trent Jones, was hamstrung by the drab prairie landscape, possibly made worse by a hasty tree-planting scheme.
"In effect, the Treasury has hamstrung law enforcement's ability to follow the money and hold pharma accountable for fraud," she said.
It also appeases some Democrats who argue financial rules passed following the financial meltdown unnecessarily hamstrung small and mid-sized lenders.
They have significantly hamstrung House and Senate agriculture committee leadership's ability to deal with the financial strife facing America's family farmers.
Both atheists and believers are hamstrung by the seeming fact that the existence of God may neither be proved or disproved.
But farmers have been hamstrung by retaliatory tariffs over the last two years, crushing Chinese demand and weighing on soybean prices.
The region has been hamstrung by a testing bottleneck that makes it difficult to ascertain how much the virus has spread.
But plans to bring the company's mass-market car, the Model 33, to overseas buyers have been hamstrung by logistical challenges.
That will be impossible if government spending caps remain too tight or if agencies are hamstrung for months by fiscal stalemate.
Iraq's ineffectual prime minister, hamstrung by pressure from Iraqi militias and neglect from Washington, abandoned the job after the Soleimani killing.
However, economists have said rate cuts won't necessarily change the face of a structurally hamstrung economy but rather soften the blow.
Electronic cigarettes, in particular, are already hamstrung by investigations, litigation and accusations of intentionally hooking underage kids on addictive nicotine pods.
The European Commission is methodical in its approach, and hamstrung by the need to get approval from its 28 member states.
The campaign of "They go low, we go hight" whose figurehead put down "bimbo eruptions" in the past has hamstrung itself.
But in a world of low interest rates in which the Fed is frequently hamstrung, we may not have that choice.
As Boeing has been hamstrung by the crisis, its rival Airbus has gained orders for hundreds of long-range A321 planes.
Many say the federal government is particularly hamstrung by the inability to offer competitive salaries on par with the private sector.
The board has already been hamstrung for the last two years because only one of its three seats has been filled.
United has been hamstrung ever since the retirement of Alex Ferguson by precisely this lack of vision, this ignorance of destination.
He mentioned the Department of Commerce specifically as being hamstrung in getting data on gross domestic product and retail sales, for example.
Adding to their burden, the lawyers have been hamstrung by a deliberate decision inside the White House to avoid an internal investigation.
Throughout her report Ms Madonsela complains of how her investigation was hamstrung by a shortage of money and obstruction by the president.
When the evidence thrown up by the reports into drug debt could no longer be ignored by police, they found themselves hamstrung.
So these CEOs are hamstrung and left to rearrange chairs on the deck of the Titanic while the whole ship is sinking.
The common complaint from builders is that they are hamstrung by a lack of skilled labor, which is keeping production levels low.
On the other hand, victims often feel hamstrung in the midst of attacks and don't want to lose a window to respond.
They will each take over federal agencies hamstrung by cyber protection barriers that they would never have tolerated in their previous jobs.
Given what happened the last time the union struck a deal with the league, Sherman and his peers may be severely hamstrung.
"We are hamstrung by the fact that you can't do legitimate scientific research unless you have a Schedule 1 license," he said.
Those retailers found themselves hamstrung by debt and unable to make the investments necessary to compete amid a rapidly changing retail landscape.
Banks complain that more onerous regulations have hamstrung their ability to play their traditional role in lubricating activity in the bond market.
The ACA and the HITECH Act have hamstrung doctors already drowning in stifling red tape with complicated new mandates, regulations, and bureaucracy.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court sits hamstrung, unable to deliver conclusive rulings on some of the most pressing legal issues facing the country.
Under the Obama administration, educational initiatives have been hamstrung by the power of the teachers' unions and by political correctness on steroids.
Though he used his campaign to spread his ideas, Mr. Yang said he had been somewhat hamstrung by his run for president.
As if all of this wasn't discomforting enough in itself, the political establishment appears hamstrung, unable to agree on how to respond.
Today, however, there is less snowpack than ever, and the river is still hamstrung by obligations that are nearly a century old.
The economy is being hamstrung by the Trump administration's 253-month trade war with China, which has eroded consumer and business confidence.
Both currencies have been hit hard as the coronavirus outbreak hamstrung global trade and tourism, while denting prices for key commodity exports.
And without corresponding protections abroad, creators will be hamstrung in leveraging platforms to reach new audiences and generate revenues in other countries.
Earlier iterations of the Apple Watch, and frankly, most other smartwatches, have been hamstrung by their dependency on your phone for data.
The euro zone's third-largest economy has been hamstrung by a sizeable pile of non-performing loans (NPLs) over the past decade.
The loan's rating is hamstrung by a capital structure that is roughly 299.5 times levered on an adjusted debt-to-Ebitda basis.
Advisers also say Obama was hamstrung on Iraq by a 2008 agreement negotiated by the Bush administration to pull out all troops.
Congress is trying to tackle this issue, but its bipartisan efforts are being hamstrung by heavy lobbying from doctors, hospitals and insurers.
But it isn't hard to find 2010s pop culture works where the longing for some community in the past hamstrung the present.
Ms. Devos will also be hamstrung by the fact that her deregulated school choice philosophy has not been considered a resounding success.
Will the Los Angeles Rams be hamstrung by the knowledge that they got this far by the grace of several sleepwalking referees?
They can't be trusted because they are hamstrung by their own user experience needs and their business models, which depend on our attention.
Basic stuff: They are hamstrung by new regulations which are costing them up to a quarter of the price of a new home.
National and local organizations have stepped in to fill the holes of an overwhelmed, local government hamstrung by budget hurdles and logistical challenges.
But they are hamstrung by disagreements over how to treat technology firms and competition for investment in a world where capital crosses borders.
"He refused to be imprisoned by his disease that kept him hamstrung longer than Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in South Africa," Clinton said.
Innovative industries in Ethiopia have been hamstrung to preserve this philosophy, and those who do access the internet are targets of relentless hacking.
A president's policies should not be hamstrung, the main dissent suggests, by an alcohol-tinged insult he uttered at a party decades ago.
Currently there are very few games available and most, like Lifeline (the best Apple Watch game) are just hamstrung variants of phone games.
But laws guaranteeing ownership have been hamstrung by an entrenched social hierarchy, a rigid caste system and lack of political will, campaigners say.
Over the last several years, a banking sector crisis in India had left many lenders hamstrung and impeded their ability to issue loans.
Even the FTC's own commissioners fear it might be too hamstrung to serve as the primary cop on the beat for net neutrality.
Additionally, particular apps or sites—such as those that might compete with your telecom company—are not blocked, slowed down, or otherwise hamstrung.
While Perriello's economic message was in line with populist progressive policies, he was hamstrung by his record on reproductive rights and gun control.
Housing has been hamstrung by expensive building materials and land and labor shortages, which are contributing to a dearth of homes for sale.
The slow installation and subsequent pilot trainings have hamstrung airlines reliant on the planes during one of the busiest summers for travel ever.
An ongoing crisis in the finance sector has hamstrung lending, impacting investments, while recent policy reforms have left small-and-medium businesses reeling.
The lack of a star quarterback has hamstrung the franchise, leading to lost games, coaches, front-office members and a generation of fans.
Party officials are hamstrung — there is no mechanism for removing Mr. Trump as the party's candidate; he would have to step down himself.
Regardless, even if Falcon or another political opponent could win the vote, analysts say he would most likely be hamstrung by Maduro's allies.
Dogged by investigations and hamstrung by a lack of achievements, he has thus far failed to settle on a sharp message for 230.
India's banking sector crisis has left most state lenders hamstrung with mounting levels of bad loans, investigations into fraud and restricted growth opportunities.
Their claim is that crime rose because the police found themselves hamstrung in a political environment in which their every move was scrutinized.
The larger Australian milk production is a welcomed boost for Murray Goulburn, country's largest dairy processor, which has been hamstrung by lower supplies.
Those investigations have hamstrung Trump's ability to take steps to improve US-Russian relations, the most obvious one being a lifting of sanctions.
Such delays have hamstrung efforts to build new transmission lines that would move renewable power from the Great Plains to East Coast cities.
They argue that it is overly bureaucratic, bizarrely structured, too dependent on a handful of major donors, and often hamstrung by political concerns.
And public health experts worry that efforts to contain an outbreak could be hamstrung by budget cuts that have weakened state health departments.
Nevertheless, he is somewhat hamstrung by his promise to an exhausted American public that America no longer will become enmeshed in endless wars.
But Tesla is hamstrung by this model, as far as the potentially $8 trillion autonomous ride-hailing and ride-sharing business is concerned.
Learning to live on less than you make from the start of your career means you'll never feel hamstrung by lack of money.
The husky-voiced tenor Ian Koziara made a vulnerable Max, hamstrung by bullying and desperate to find some means — any means — to prevail.
The lack of an operational board has hamstrung the agency, which Congress reauthorized in December for four years after months of partisan fighting.
Still, the economy remains structurally weak, hamstrung by poor infrastructure, struggling exports, the threat of militant violence and a very narrow tax base.
But he was hamstrung by the fact that the business arrangements his son had struck when he was vice president just looked bad.
But they're all hamstrung by uneven plotting that relegates almost all of the season's most revealing moments to the first and last episodes.
But others say she is hamstrung by a 2008 constitution that enshrines the military's power and which her party is trying to amend.
It can be hard, though, for traditional retailers hamstrung by debt to build up the infrastructure necessary to support an expansive e-commerce business.
Because all the business experience in the world won't make you a successful president if you're hamstrung by your past dealings at every turn.
At the same time, the incumbents will continue to struggle with innovation, hamstrung by their scale, regulatory burdens and decades of accumulated technical debt.
It can be hard though, for traditional retailers hamstrung by debt to build up the infrastructure necessary to support an expansive e-commerce business.
The investigators, hamstrung by a lack of subpoena power, were forced to rely on witness cooperation which naturally limited the scope of their findings.
"Frozen by 'paralysis of analysis,' hamstrung by constraints both real and perceived, Obama officials debated courses of action without truly taking one," he said.
Cybersecurity stakeholders are pushing U.S. lawmakers to rescue WHOIS, a tool for identifying internet domain ownership that's been hamstrung by the EU's privacy regulations.
On the other hand, doctors and nurses also feel hamstrung by regulatory and reimbursement requirements, and thus unable to deliver best-in-class care.
They spend huge amounts of time and money manually transferring data between services and are, once again, hamstrung by a lack of developer resources.
He said Trump had been trying to make a point about being "hamstrung" in his efforts to deal with Russia because of the investigation.
Likewise, while some governments invest heavily and directly in their flagship airports (and airlines), budgets in America are often controlled by hamstrung airport authorities.
The common denominator in these redistricting battles is the determination of reform-minded voters who see how polarization has hamstrung government and halted progress.
But Nagpur is already benefiting from a change that will allow companies to move goods across state borders without being hamstrung by local levies.
Because he refused to be imprisoned by a disease that kept him hamstrung longer than Nelson Mandela was kept in prison in South Africa.
"He worries about his ability to negotiate with various entities and how much he's hamstrung by this," a second senior White House official said.
As late as 2007, the site still looked about the same, as construction was hamstrung by lawsuits, budget overruns, design changes, and a recession.
An ongoing crisis in the finance sector has hamstrung lending and impacted investments, while recent policy reforms have left small-and-medium businesses reeling.
More generally, the decision in the Amex case is emblematic of how antitrust enforcement came to be so hamstrung in the last 40 years.
Senate Republicans, who might be eager to tear into Mr. Franken, have been hamstrung by accusations of sexual misconduct and assault against President Trump.
The Supreme Court not only has limited integration through the courts but has also hamstrung school districts that want to integrate on their own.
Architectural mistakes are a reflection of the Shed's hamstrung inaugural programming, which trades the experience of art for the spectacle of superstar-driven events.
As a result, serious attempts to combat climate change are hamstrung, and all of our children and grandchildren are likely to suffer for it.
And the West is trying to fight back, albeit unevenly: A congressional effort to confront Russian disinformation has been hamstrung by divisions in Washington.
In the meantime, Cooper, hamstrung as he is by the General Assembly, has managed to maneuver his way to a handful of quiet victories.
Similar large-scale studies like this have been hamstrung by too many participants coming from a similar background, oftentimes only those with European ancestry.
Like most societies throughout the Middle East, the kingdom's economic development is hamstrung by arcane bureaucracies and inside connections, translated as corruption to outsiders.
The Yankees were hamstrung at times in 623 because Alex Rodriguez could not play in the field and Beltran had become increasingly less mobile.
Boeing's issues with the Max have left it hamstrung from pursuing a plan to build an all-new aircraft to serve mid-range routes.
Deutsche Bank is undergoing deep restructuring, hamstrung by having to pay out billions of dollars of fines to end a slew of legal rows.
India wants even more new military technology, but it is often hamstrung by tight export controls from key suppliers like the US and Britain.
Information is tightly compartmentalized in order to protect higher ups in the organizations, something that has hamstrung efforts to make any major, penetrating prosecutions.
So until Democrats win a majority in the Senate or take back the White House, they're essentially hamstrung — making the next two years absolutely crucial.
In the summer of 2017, the Argentine team had been inactive for two years, hamstrung by an association that showed little interest in arranging games.
However, Turnbull said Australia's role had been hamstrung by differences between domestic and international law, a loophole that his government would close with new legislation.
America Movil executives have complained publicly the company is hamstrung from entering underserved areas because that would only increase its market share, prolonging antitrust scrutiny.
It had been hamstrung by political backlash in the state, and polling showed that a majority of Californians disapproved of the plan as costs ballooned.
Remember that it is poor ringcraft which has hamstrung the career of Zabit's very talented stablemate, Edson Barboza since he began fighting truly elite opposition.
Despite slashing interest rates by a total 125 of basis points in 2015, the RBI has been hamstrung by the limited pass-through by banks.
By focusing on being the best-organized team in the world, the players were absolved of the inferiority complex that hamstrung Iceland in Bjarki's day.
Mainly they're hamstrung by the fact that many liberals have seemingly gone into permanent conspiracy theory land, a place which does not brook irony easily.
The greenback remains hamstrung versus its rivals, restrained by concerns over global growth, the U.S. government shutdown and a yet-unresolved U.S.-Sino trade dispute.
The company has promised to sell off $21 billion in assets this year and next but has been hamstrung by court decisions freezing asset sales.
But Shoprite's Angolan business produced its sharpest growth, as the retailer was able to replenish goods while other retailers were hamstrung by foreign exchange rules.
Neither Clinton could accept the simple fact that Hillary had hamstrung her own campaign and dealt the most serious blow to her own presidential aspirations.
The tournament went ahead but it was hamstrung by the UFC immediately removing Overeem and bringing him into the main brand after his quarterfinal victory.
The Texas running game was so hamstrung by Russell Martin that the Rangers only attempted a single steal, by Elvis Andrus, who was thrown out.
Trump will likely claim that he was assuring the Russians that he could cut any deal and was not in anyway hamstrung in going forward.
Feinstein, who fought for years to pass legislation in support of a permanent designation for the lands but was hamstrung by a deeply divided Congress.
The powerful seem hamstrung by the ascendancy at home of rightist insurgents whose appeal to disaffected citizens feeds on opposition to migrants in their midst.
For investor Christopher Rossbach, chief investment officer at J. Stern & Co, Schneider would not have moved to Nestle if he feared being hamstrung by tradition.
Recent efforts to repopulate the northern white rhino have been hamstrung by the fact that both Najin and Fatu are infertile, according to the study.
Even before the game's release, Devolver Digital was being hamstrung on Facebook thanks to the site's restrictive policies around drug-related content, the developers say.
Ibama employees said they have also been hamstrung by new restrictions on their ability to destroy logging and mining equipment found in illegally deforested areas.
" The team at New York-Presbyterian Hospital is isolating suspected coronavirus patients and taking proper precautions to prevent the spread, McCarthy said, but "they're hamstrung.
They could be a reminder of what's hamstrung Democrats in the past: ceding ground to centrists who insist on largely unobjectionable — and uninspiring — white papers.
Republicans argue they were hamstrung by the legislation's $1.5 trillion ceiling, the result of the arcane and partisan process used to fast-track the bill.
"Frozen by 'paralysis of analysis,' hamstrung by constraints both real and perceived, Obama officials debated courses of action without truly taking one," Mr. Burr said.
Their nearly 18 percent share of the vote hamstrung Swedish politics, with the mainstream parties unable to form a government for more than four months.
That's because a gridlocked government — hamstrung from passing either party's initiatives or reforms — tends to generate better returns than when one political party controls Congress.
However, I believe the airlines have hamstrung themselves in many situations by relying too much on stringent protocols and less on commonsense and customer service.
Their nearly 18 percent share of the vote hamstrung Swedish politics, with the mainstream parties unable to form a government for more than four months.
California's experiment in legalization is mired by debates over regulation and hamstrung by cities and towns that do not want cannabis businesses on their streets.
Is because the government didn't let all the good American companies go in there, or they totally hamstrung them to the point they couldn't repeat.
Residents say they have few options and can't afford trash bags, while local officials are hamstrung because the land is privately owned by Union Pacific.
In its motion, the agency claimed that the resources needed to advance its case were hamstrung by the ongoing government shutdown, with no end in sight.
The Spanish justice system's actions against the region's leaders has since then hamstrung the pro-independence camp and further muddied the electoral waters before Thursday's vote.
In the past, he's been hamstrung by his gaffes, which have included saying "This is a big fucking deal" while introducing Obama's Affordable Care Act announcement.
Facebook tries to pretend it's hamstrung by its policies oftentimes, but it's a private company just like Apple, with all the same options at its disposal.
Disney "hamstrung Netflix by announcing a bundle of Disney+ and ESPN+ and ad-supported Hulu at the same price point," said Kamal Khan, analyst at Investing.com.
To make matters worse, one of the largest corporations relevant to the durable goods portion of the manufacturing sector has been hamstrung virtually the entire year.
VW is hamstrung by the different interests of its stakeholders - which include a powerful role for trade unions - and a lack of new leaders, he added.
Renewable energy is not yet plentiful or potent enough to completely supplant fossil fuels, while atomic energy is fraught with risks and hamstrung by political resistance.
Despite ongoing debates over Twitter's rules for policies around verification and suspension, company executives seemed befuddled and, at times, hamstrung when it came to enforcing them.
"The president was very clearly referring to MS-13 gang members who enter the country illegally and whose deportations are hamstrung by our laws," Sanders said.
Balls put that at around 70 percent, adding that even though the Federal Reserve is normalizing policy it might still be hamstrung when the slowdown comes.
Delta Air Lines, which does not have the troubled plane in its fleet, said it has marginally benefited as rivals' operations are hamstrung from the grounding.
Since the Security Council, hamstrung largely by Russian intransigence, has proven itself incapable of acting in a responsible way in Syria, other collective bodies should act.
The latest set of projects were required to address climate issues in an innovative way, be commercially viable, and not hamstrung by regulatory hurdles, said Buchner.
On Thursday, a power shutdown at one of Wells Fargo's main data centers caused a cascade of issues that hamstrung many of the bank's core operations.
They said the response to the malaria outbreak had been hamstrung by increased red tape, which slowed the distribution of preventative measures such as mosquito nets.
But career personnel at the State have little or no experience with how to procure the best systems or are hamstrung by the procurement process, itself.
Violent civil strife haunts Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, while the global glut in oil production has hamstrung Arab Gulf economies, complicating their efforts to modernize.
Pro-Thaksin parties have won every election since 2001, but the past 15 years have seen crippling street protests that destabilised the government and hamstrung business.
You might think Europe is treading water these days, with one of its biggest financial centers, London, hamstrung by Brexit and the uncertainty it has fostered.
In what should have been a major breakthrough for this comedian, I Feel Pretty instead becomes a good idea totally hamstrung, gutted, eviscerated by poor writing.
The populist wave sweeping the developed world is rooted to some degree in all of this: hamstrung governments, powerful companies, buoyant markets and widening wealth gaps.
Many economists believe the Fed played a critical role in guiding America out of the recession as other authorities in Washington appeared hamstrung by political gridlock.
His government has struggled to disburse funds for roads, ports and power stations, and many critical infrastructure projects were hamstrung by bickering ministers and red tape.
Ultimately, though, Toys R Us was hamstrung by debt payments and forced into liquidation when it couldn't keep pace with Amazon or invest in its business.
Rather, smaller companies are being hamstrung by the economy&aposs very strength: Low unemployment has shrunk the pool of job seekers and intensified competition for workers.
But perhaps that was the point: The Warriors, hamstrung by injuries and fatigue, could play a deeply imperfect game and still nearly take down the Spurs.
The East Asian metal scene is chock full of brilliant artists, both old and new, whose successes have until recently been hamstrung by geography and hardship.
They hamstrung President Ronald Reagan's efforts to roll back Communist advances in Central America and did their best to impose a "nuclear freeze" on America's arsenal.
But the USMCA could be hamstrung if the Democrat-held House refuses to bring it to a vote as signed by the three countries last year.
Yet almost all the growth came from government spending and exports, with domestic consumption hamstrung by miserly wage gains and a sharp downturn in home building.
Instead, we find them stuck on the same sofas, cruising the same struggling streets and hamstrung by the same old obstacles (rap sheets and general inertia).
She's actually sort of annoying, and doesn't really stamp her presence on the production like she might, hamstrung as she is by a drawn-out tutorial.
Latitude for all the good he might do for Saudis could become hamstrung if the political price of keeping him as a friend looks too steep.
Democrats already fear being hamstrung as they lay out their case that Trump should be removed from office for pressuring Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rivals.
Alfred Bossman, a 42-year-old electrical engineer, said the cost of doing business was too high and that economic development had been hamstrung by corruption.
By failing to accept responsibility for her loss and being the liability who hamstrung her team's efforts at every turn, she looks like a sore loser.
Buyers throughout the country continue to be hamstrung by record low supply levels that are pushing up prices – especially at the lower end of the market.
But the London market has been hamstrung since March, when traders said Turkish state-owned banks withheld lira liquidity and swap rates soared well above 1,000%.
If nothing much emerges from the meeting, analysts said, the Kremlin can repeat the standard Russian line that Mr. Trump is weak, hamstrung by domestic politics.
Democrats are coming to believe they have hamstrung themselves in pursuit of their goals by worrying about so-called pay-fors, policies that offset the cost.
However, both the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now — with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs.
Meanwhile, the ongoing crisis in India's banking sector has left most state lenders hamstrung with mounting levels of bad loans, investigations into fraud and restricted growth opportunities.
"Both the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now — with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs," wrote Pelosi.
It's a poor place by American standards whose economy has been in shambles for about a decade and whose bankrupt government is now hamstrung by its creditors.
At the time of Westbrook's fourth foul, the Thunder were down only 50-5, but with their star guard somewhat hamstrung by foul trouble, things fell apart.
If Congress does not act, then the Food and Drug Administration would be significantly hamstrung in its ability to approve any new drugs in a timely manner.
As good, and big, as the display is, the laptop is still hamstrung by the greatest foible of 15-inch laptops: the size of the damn thing.
While a strengthening economy and tightening labor market, which is steadily driving up wages, are supporting the housing market, sales remain hamstrung by a dearth of inventory.
For traditional lenders such as Mizuho, hamstrung by years of low interest rates, tie-ups with tech firms offer an opportunity to attract younger, tech-savvy customers.
The future of Cuper is more uncertain as Egypt underachieved after so much promise although they were hamstrung by the untimely shoulder injury to talisman Mohamed Salah.
The message to voters, with lawmakers now back home and either avoiding constituents or straining to answer their questions, is increasingly murky -- and hamstrung by past sloganeering.
Investors and partner countries are worried that policymaking in Germany and Europe may become hamstrung by a political deadlock that is about to enter its fifth month.
But if Mueller or Congress produce damaging revelations, or if Trump moves forward with decisions that provide evidence he is obstructing the investigation, Kelly will be hamstrung.
Trump's message as an outsider candidate was that normal politicians were unable to protect ordinary Americans, in part because they were too hamstrung by laws and regulations.
They were inevitably hamstrung after the Isaias government ignored their requests to visit Eritrea, but their research also suffered from selection bias, and that was their doing.
Ms. Mosby already had a challenging case; by refusing to tackle the report head on, she hamstrung her team, in the courtroom and in the news media.
She was hamstrung, however, by the component score of her program, which measures composition, interpretation and performance, among other elements, and includes judgment of a skater's artistry.
They could have been better: The stimulus should have been bigger and more sustained, and Republican opposition hamstrung the administration's economic policy after the first two years.
But despite Wray's assurance and increased public focus on the danger of white nationalism, the FBI is still somewhat hamstrung in how it responds to the threat.
They fret that the lumbering federal bureaucracy is hamstrung by outmoded technology, often in such troubling ways that veterans have a hard time obtaining their medical records.
I've asked the company for clarification on this, and whether the company recently booted GhostGunner — which would circumstantially identify it as the company that indirectly hamstrung Hatreon.
Claiming to be hamstrung by an audit from the Internal Revenue Service, then-candidate Trump promised to release his tax filings as soon as he was able.
How the intelligence community is adapting Among the federal workers most hamstrung by efforts to reduce their presence in the workplace are members of the intelligence community.
They were ordered to keep their shareholder payouts at last year's level and build up their capital buffers — but don't expect them to be hamstrung next year.
The directive effectively leaves the mainly southern hemisphere competition hamstrung after only six completed rounds, with any team entering New Zealand having to spend two weeks quarantined.
"The president was very clearly referring to MS-13 gang members who enter the country illegally and whose deportations are hamstrung by our laws," Ms. Sanders said.
Ghebreyesus faces the unenviable task of spearheading the multilateral response to the Wuhan coronavirus, while heading an agency still hamstrung by defective management, governance and financing structures.
But recognizing the good these two presidents did does not mean being hamstrung by the assumptions they lived with or the compromises they felt forced to make.
Such preparations, he added, meant that while the daily activities of such organizations had been severely hamstrung in recent days, most had already replaced the affected data.
Immigration judges are hamstrung, Tabaddor said, because of the close working relationship between the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attorneys who prosecute immigration cases.
Second, the Air Traffic Organization is hamstrung in its modernization efforts because it is unable to issue long-term revenue bonds, as airports and other utilities do.
With U.S. firm Westinghouse in Chapter 11 proceedings and France's Areva being restructured, Rosatom's two main competitors are hamstrung by financial difficulties, boosting the Russian firm's chances.
The luxury market is largely overbuilt, while there is a shortage of affordable rental housing, and developers are hamstrung by the now record-high cost of construction.
She recognizes that her proposals like the Green Manufacturing Plan, Medicare for All and sweeping anti-corruption reforms could be hamstrung in the Senate by filibusters. Sen.
Competition among drugmakers in major markets like the United States is intense, and Chinese companies are hamstrung in particular by a lack of money committed to research.
With a Republican-controlled Senate and a president uninterested in or openly opposing the left's agenda, the new House majority is legislatively "hamstrung," Vox's Ella Nilsen notes.
Of how, in its heyday, on a tiny budget, it became an eye into Britain's soul and should stand as an important lesson for today's hamstrung media.
Government attorneys had argued in a United States district court filing Wednesday that the ongoing government shutdown hamstrung their lawyers by cutting off funding to the Justice Department.
Trump, whose likely run for a second term in 2020 could be hamstrung by a poor approval rating, sees the economy as a central part of his appeal.
It lays out several factors that hamstrung the White House's ability to coordinate a response, including partisan concerns not only on the campaign trail, but also in Congress.
When famine strikes, relief agencies are typically hamstrung from providing meaningful help — until the suffering attracts big cable news coverage, which then sparks sufficient donations from wealthy countries.
This person also would be hamstrung by the Board's loud embrace of its "strategic review" plan, which it has asserted is the only way forward for the Company.
Courts are currently hamstrung a bit by current antitrust law, which hasn't been updated much since J.P. Morgan was known more as a person than as a bank.
"Despite identical personal qualifications and firm financials, firms led by female CEOs may be hamstrung in terms of their ability to take a company public," the study said.
But the central bank is hamstrung in its ability to raise interest rates in the face of pressure from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, to keep them low.
So while the Treding Topics section will doubtless get better, it's also temporarily hamstrung by an inability to tell when something is a (really bad and boring) joke.
Whatever comes to pass, the Martells' existing role in the story will likely be as occasional diplomatic allies to whoever seems likely to prevail over the hamstrung Lannisters.
Free Fire Ben Wheatley's latest misfire wastes a bunch of good actors (Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer) and is hamstrung by a goofy tone.
Unless the UFC makes some changes, DJ's fights will forever be hamstrung by the fact that no one can even recall seeing the guy he is facing before.
At this point last year, Sony was reporting a profit four times larger and was, overall, doing much better than it is today, albeit hamstrung by smartphone losses.
Civil suits brought by individuals or activists "have been successful because they can prohibit association, seize firearms, and other assets so that these groups are hamstrung," Belew said.
Deutsche Bank, which is undergoing a deep restructuring, has been hamstrung by having to pay out billions of dollars of fines to end a slew of legal disputes.
Cruikshank, where it held that the Second Amendment did not apply to the states, hamstrung federal efforts to protect black freedpeople in the South from white supremacist terrorism.
They're super knowledgeable about what's going on in their companies and their industries, and often aren't as hamstrung as executives or analysts to tell it like it is.
Read more: A former senior FBI official said agents are hamstrung in fighting white nationalist violence because they're 'wary of pissing off the guy in the Oval Office'
Regional LNG rival Tanzania has struggled to match Mozambique's pace of progress in getting its own fledgling industry off the ground, hamstrung by regulatory uncertainty and other factors.
In addition, the sector which accounts for about 12 percent of the economy, has been hamstrung by weak global demand and an inventory correction in the United States.
A lack of communication between the two, combined with a lack of understanding about how freshwater and brine interact beneath the Salar, has left authorities hamstrung, says Cristi.
The resistance by some of the city's populace to its own after-hours music scene has hamstrung the efforts of DIY artists to nurture a lively, healthy scene.
But, hamstrung by his prominent support for comprehensive immigration reform -- something wildly unpopular to much of the GOP base -- McCain's campaign totally collapsed in the summer of 2007.
Now a hamstrung F.C.C. is in even worse shape to deal with agile scammers armed to the teeth with technologies that enable them to exploit and torment consumers.
In the end, Doten's novel is both an illustration of how Trump and Trumpism have hamstrung public discourse and a set of instructions for untying ourselves: Remain vigilant.
Those rules have also largely penned in homegrown titans like Tencent, whose overseas expansion plans have been hamstrung by the unique demands of catering to China's online population.
"However, both the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now – with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs," she wrote.
The internationally recognized government in Tripoli, hamstrung since its inception in 2016 by rejection from rivals in the east and powerful local armed groups, is fighting for survival.
DuBois is hamstrung by its narrow scale and adjusted high debt to Ebitda ratio, which is between 7.0-8.0 times, S&P said in a September 17 report.
Critics say that restriction has hamstrung the independent expert group, making it hesitant to take on politically sensitive issues and unable to assess the true value of treatments.
On a local Facebook page, SOMa Lounge, residents complained that the pilot ban hamstrung their gardeners, leaving their yards looking unkempt, with grass suffocating beneath piles of clippings.
Cost-benefit analysis challenges have hamstrung Securities and Exchange Commission rule making, and disrupted the government's strategy for overseeing too-big-to-fail insurance companies and asset managers.
"Both the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now — with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs," Ms. Pelosi wrote.
The capabilities of the US to detect and operate against foreign agents using social media is severely hamstrung by various legal requirements and political fears of government monitoring.
Its woes are a microcosm of wider crisis in Puerto Rico, where $70 billion of debt threatens to cripple an economy already hamstrung by staggering poverty and rampant emigration.
Ultimately, any attempt to stop the Cultural Revolution was hamstrung by the same reason today's China has been unable to properly reckon with its history: the primacy of Mao.
Some legal experts say complex financial crimes are hard to investigate and prosecute, and many law enforcement agencies lack skilled staff and resources or are hamstrung by political interference.
Germany's flagship lender is in the throes of a major restructuring, hamstrung by having to pay out billions of euros of fines to end a slew of legal rows.
But while several states have schemes to give land to the rural poor, the high cost of land in India's cities has hamstrung slum redevelopment and affordable housing schemes.
Worawut Wichaidit, a spokesman for the anti-junta group United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, said having an election is better than even if the new government is hamstrung.
Some well-wishers fear that Mr Vizcarra, a micro-manager with little national experience, will be hamstrung by fujimoristas intent on preventing the institutional reforms he hopes to make.
His capacity to conduct reforms is hamstrung by the looming presence of Mr Nazarbayev, who will not want to see the system he fashioned dismantled, or even tinkered with.
"A weaker dollar should benefit emerging-market currencies, but for now they are hamstrung by all the uncertainty around China," said Ray Attrill, head of currency strategy at NAB.
It has a D-pad, but it's a really bad one that's hamstrung by the apparent need to be able to press all four directions independently of one another.
At least one U.S. airline that doesn't fly the 737 Max —Delta — said that it's benefited as its rivals that do have the grounded aircraft grapple with hamstrung fleets.
Local officials want to maximize tax collection on rental units, while tech advocates say internet firms should not be hamstrung by myriad local rules on what they can publish.
Though Justice Horkins was in a sense hamstrung by the high burden of proof required by criminal law in alleged rape cases, his 26-page judgment is still instructional.
Sanders' plans are important, as many activists here readily concede, for reasons they learned the hard way, as his campaign became increasingly hamstrung by the limits of its insurgency.
The sanctions have hamstrung refineries in the United States, as many giant Gulf Coast facilities need heavier oil to produce high-margin refined products like diesel and jet fuel.
Under new Chief Executive John Cryan, Deutsche is undergoing deep restructuring, hamstrung by having to pay out billions of dollars of fines to end a slew of legal rows.
Tesla's second-quarter deliveries were hamstrung by a shortage of 100kWh batteries, the company says, which are created using new production-line tech and facilities, leading to new challenges.
The appointment of a special counsel and indications that the investigation is inching closer to the President himself have hamstrung the administration's legislative efforts and damaged Trump's political capital.
"Congress has really hamstrung the ability for ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] to track these things and this will make it more difficult," Thompson told Hill.
Whether the U.S. fully withdraws or not, in both cases the U.S. has been hamstrung by neighboring countries that appear to only pay lip service to being U.S. allies.
But in his speech, Hensarling laid the blame for a lackluster economic recovery squarely at the feet of the new financial rules, which he argued has hamstrung the economy.
The first is restrained but headstrong; the second hamstrung by emotional repression; the last abandoned, almost, to the flood of feeling that he has kept back for so long.
As prosecutors and judges press ahead with the cases, many Argentines question whether the ruling class can move beyond a culture of graft that has hamstrung the country's progress.
He was determined to avoid a similar result despite circumstances so eerily familiar that another defensive collapse would not have been much of a surprise for this hamstrung roster.
Brooklyn Nets By trading for D'Angelo Russell, the Nets were able to acquire a genuinely exciting young player despite being hamstrung by a dearth of draft picks and assets.
LATAM has racked up repeated losses since it was formed in the 2012 merger of Chile's LAN and Brazil's TAM, hamstrung by Brazil's economic problems and negative currency effects.
"They have opened up a new segment, one which the conventional carmakers have not discovered because they are too hamstrung by their own processes," said Christoph Stuermer of PWC.
And, hamstrung and under constant assault is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has worked to return nearly $12 billion to consumers from predatory actions by the financial industry.
But they said that the official, Dr. Mercedes España, was hamstrung by an apparent lack of commitment by the Maduro administration to deal with the nation's various health crises.
Convention planning is also hamstrung by the fact that as long as Senator Bernie Sanders remains in the race, Democrats do not yet have a de facto presidential nominee.
Federal agents, hamstrung by budget cuts and now under siege in the Trump administration's campaign against environmental regulation, don't have the mandate to hold drillers accountable for shoddy practices.
Meanwhile, Americore found itself increasingly hamstrung by high-interest loans and unable to pay employees and vendors, a situation that disrupted the operations of the rural hospitals it owns.
Hamstrung by troubles with lethal injection — gruesomely botched attempts, legal battles and growing difficulty obtaining the drugs — states are looking for alternative ways to carry out the death penalty.
The big picture: Cities, especially those in the first wave to receive e-scooters, have been hamstrung in responding to unsanctioned, unregulated rollouts that call to mind Uber's playbook.
In recent years, a low oil price has signaled fears of global stagnation and deflation and the worry that hamstrung governments were not in a position to stimulate growth.
The nerves that hamstrung him that week become more acute when he is a spectator, and so Scott generally prefers to stay home and watch the majors on television.
There's rich drama to mine there, but, like the Cave case, it's all hamstrung by the show's perplexing disinterest in making Poppy out as anything other than a hero.
Lingering Brexit concerns left sterling hamstrung on Monday, boosting firms with a larger international exposure such as Shell, Unilever and Diageo, which lent further support to the main index.
Prosecutors were hamstrung in large part because of evidence they were not allowed to introduce, like testimony from other women who accused Cosby of similar acts of sexual assault.
Lenihan says that his team had Lagos in mind during development of the technology, a global megacity where residents and businesses are often hamstrung by spotty access to power.
All of this means that although Yang's pilot was somewhat risky given FEC rules, it is ultimately a very smart play, especially given how hamstrung America's elections watchdog is.
Lingering Brexit concerns left sterling hamstrung on Monday, boosting firms with a larger international exposure such as Shell, Unilever and Diageo, which lent further support to the main index.
But K-12 education in America is decentralized enough that DeVos has been largely hamstrung on the administration's agenda of promoting vouchers, charter schools, and other school choice programs.
Along with some previous poor decisions, the cap-sheet-cluttering deals handed out by the franchise this summer have hamstrung its ability to build a significantly better roster going forward.
One of the first investigators on the case, Steve Thomas, recalled to CBS being hamstrung in obtaining basic evidence by a DA's office who were "intimidated" by the affluent Ramseys.
You can already track your sleep on the Apple Watch using third-party apps, but the device has always been hamstrung in this regard by its relatively slim battery life.
Alexis Gray, senior economist at Vanguard Asset Services, told CNBC Wednesday that the ECB was probably "somewhat hamstrung" when it comes to ramping up stimulus measures over the coming months.
In early January, at the news conference celebrating Mike Piazza's election to the Hall of Fame, General Manager Sandy Alderson reiterated the importance of not being hamstrung by outsize contracts.
The government -- in which President Ashraf Ghani shares power with the man he fought an election against, Abdullah Abdullah -- was hamstrung, many argue, by this communal rivalry from the start.
But he is somewhat hamstrung by his lack of pedigree among the generals; he is the first president of an independent Mozambique not to have fought in the liberation war.
Under new Chief Executive John Cryan, Deutsche Bank is undergoing deep restructuring, hamstrung by having to pay out billions of dollars of fines to end a slew of legal rows.
Mr Hammond is hamstrung by his poor relations with Theresa May, who made no secret of wanting to get rid of him if the June election had gone to plan.
And yet until Thursday, overlap between the two has been severely hamstrung; you could only install it on a Samsung Galaxy device, or by getting off of a beta waitlist.
Research on robots has for decades been hamstrung by extravagant costs—the popular research robot PR2, a pair of arms not dissimilar from Blue, will set a lab back $400,000.
India, in Pool B along with Argentina, Canada, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands in Rio, have often been hamstrung by an inability to stay competitive in the final 15 minutes.
LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling languished near 14-month lows on Thursday, and strong British retail sales did little to support the currency hamstrung by fears about Britain leaving the European Union.
Sure, Alain Vigneault insisted on Tanner Glass in his lineup and made indefensible decisions with his defensemen's minutes and matchups that hamstrung the Rangers, but Karlsson was the Senators' everything.
Nintendo's first Fox McCloud game proper for the Wii U was hamstrung by terrible controls, which is unexpected from developers Platinum—hopefully it'll have been retuned come its April release.
"If we stay on the present course, I fear the FCC's actions to promote set-top box competition could be tied up in court and hamstrung for years," Nelson said.
The RWDSU's continuing effort to unionize the company's 270 retail locations across the United States was first launched in 2013, and found itself hamstrung by the company's anti-union tactics.
Suu Kyi's defenders say she is hamstrung by a constitution written by the military that left the army in control of security and much of the apparatus of the state.
Venture capitalists also worry that SoftBank is using debt in some deals and coming in with terms that can end up leaving companies hamstrung if growth in their business slows.
But until Medine was approved as its first chairman, the board had just two staffers — they were brought over from other agencies and were hamstrung in what they could do.
Just as DEA agents were working their way up the pharmaceutical supply chain, much as they would in a case against any transnational crime organization, Congress hamstrung their enforcement efforts.
The airline has racked up repeated losses since it was formed in the 2012 merger of Chile's LAN and Brazil's TAM, hamstrung by Brazil's economic problems and negative currency effects.
Government trial attorneys have become hamstrung and are strictly forbidden from cooperating with defense counsel for motions to reopen cases where a foreign national clearly has a path to residency.
Data capsules like these suggest that the Latino vote is simply hamstrung by the same factors that impede the Election Day turnout of all Americans: poverty, youth, lack of schooling.
That order, and a more limited form of the ban issued in March, were hamstrung by months of legal challenges until the Supreme Court approved a limited version in June.
As a result, every rally, financial contribution, or canvassing effort to benefit a Dem campaign in many states goes to support a candidate who is fundamentally hamstrung to begin with.
The government of Boris Yeltsin, while genuinely progressive in some ways, was hamstrung from its beginning by a failure to solve the lingering economic catastrophe it inherited from Soviet times.
"For too long, we have hamstrung ourselves, and limited our ability to provide our allies and partners with the defensive capabilities they require, even when in US interests," Navarro said.
The gun industry did one better: Under legislation pushed for by the National Rifle Association, the federal government until recently was hamstrung in even funding scientific research into gun violence.
It's true that President Trump's ratings are the lowest of any modern president at this point in a first term, which has hamstrung his ability to pass any major legislation.
Progress in the Senate investigation has been hamstrung by strict banking secrecy laws and anti-money laundering legislation that does not cover casinos and cannot compel them to disclose information.
Civilian governments have always been hamstrung by the machinations of Pakistan's security forces, with their obsession over India, their aggressive investment in nuclear weapons and their double-dealing in Afghanistan.
Hamstrung by a shrinking economy, population and tax base, Japan is pushing to boost tourism through "integrated resorts" - Las Vegas-style complexes that include casinos, shopping arcades and conference centres.
Deal-starved international financial institutions are hamstrung by the lack of dollar-denominated transactions in Latin America when compared to volumes in developed markets such as the US or Europe.
The move comes at a time when Maduro's socialist government is in the midst of a crackdown on domestic freedoms and Caracas' financial transactions have been hamstrung by Western sanctions.
Sanders allies' successful campaign to change Democratic National Committee rules they believe hamstrung his first presidential campaign are often wrapped, as evidence of his movement's power, into the same riff.
Will Mr. Brown use his platform to push for reforms in California's notoriously dysfunctional tax system, hamstrung by Proposition 20183 and a heavy reliance on volatile capital gains tax revenues?
It's diverting, a good way to spend a couple of hours, but it's hamstrung by something that's unavoidable: The whole central concept — raiding tombs — is just, well, not that interesting.
The strategist also addressed growing interest rate concerns, which have hamstrung the S&P 500 and the over the past two months and reacquainted traders with more normal levels of volatility.
On the other hand, to win power for themselves, the parties of left and right would need to unite in the sort of coalition that is customarily hamstrung by policy differences.
"If we stay on the present course, I fear the FCC's actions to promote set-top box competition could be tied up in court and hamstrung for years," Nelson said Thursday.
Yiannopoulos said on his Facebook page that police purposefully hamstrung the event and that yelling protesters, one of whom appeared to be with the anti-Trump organization Refuse Fascism, stifled him.
Now Adams and Hempstead are questioning whether tenure, a system they both believe in as it safeguards intellectual freedom, has actually hamstrung how universities like theirs deal with sexual harassment cases.
Mrs May's former aides moan that figures such as Philip Hammond, her chancellor, hamstrung the prime minister by refusing to play along with her pantomime preparations for a no-deal Brexit.
The sector is being hamstrung by land and labor shortages, which are making it difficult for builders to fully take advantage of lower borrowing costs and construct more affordable housing units.
California took the money, only to see its plan to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles hamstrung by bureaucracy, crippling land use issues, and the Golden State's vicious brand of NIMBYism.
Activity in the space in 2019 has been severely hamstrung by companies that are being forced by shareholders to prioritize cost cutting and developing existing assets, rather than buying new land.
The patrol, carrying local inspectors from West African countries, aimed to highlight the problem and supplement national efforts, which are often hamstrung by budget and technology constraints, making detentions relatively rare.
Posen warned that with inflation and interest rates still very low, governments hamstrung, and financial connections between nations "very dense and complicated," incoming policymakers won't have a tried and tested playbook.
It would empower public officials to do their jobs and prevent the spread of health threats, whether in the form of viruses or other diseases, without being hamstrung by partisan bickering.
The past couple of years were a slow, painful swan song; the former folk hero was earthbound and hamstrung and otherwise transparently mortal, and mortality tends to be a life sentence.
Macri, hamstrung by a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that gives his government limited options to rev up a stalled economy, is trying to turn attention instead to security.
While it won't be hamstrung by protectionist interests in the European Union, its relatively smaller economy, largely open markets and desperation for new deals will weaken its clout in trade negotiations.
Even if Amazon makes bigger bets on shows with so-called "global appeal," like its "Lord of the Rings" adaptation, Prime Video will continue to be hamstrung by this fundamental flaw.
"But you can't go out and pick the best candidate that we want for this position and tell him he's hamstrung by a number of people that are here," he added.
China has begun reviewing how it has hamstrung foreign banks with a long list of regulations that limit the services they can offer and cap their ownership stakes in Chinese banks.
But she is hamstrung by her dislike of Bergson and Hecht's affiliation with the Revisionist movement, which evolved, after Israel's founding, into the right-wing Likud party of Begin and Netanyahu.
However, they've been hamstrung by the Trump administration because making these changes requires specific waivers — known as 1135 waivers — that can only be used when the president has declared an emergency.
The months of ensuing civil uprising — and the government's response — culminated with over 30 dead, a hamstrung economy, and a country deeply divided over issues of free speech and government abuses.
He spoke of his frustration under the Obama administration, when he said that just a year ago officers were hamstrung from doing the kind of enforcement they signed on to do.
Despite the lawfulness of their enterprises, these business owners find themselves financially hamstrung by an antiquated section of the tax code that prohibits them from deducting business expenses from their taxes.
If the intelligence community decides to resume "about" collection, a method proven to have violated Americans' rights in the past, Congress's oversight role should not be hamstrung by a permanent reauthorization.
Chipotle, whose products include tacos, burritos and salads, has tried to assure customers about the quality of its food after a string of food safety incidents first hamstrung sales in 2015.
Now he's hamstrung by the Senate's filibuster rule, which allows a minority of 85033 Senators to prevent bills from coming to a vote by refusing to close debate on them. Sen.
Though they reached high-level office — Mr. Romney as a governor and Mr. Gore as a senator and vice president — they were often hamstrung by their limited performance abilities as presidential candidates.
McEnroe is an interesting expression of Kipling's sentiments, but ultimately it's hamstrung by its choice to focus largely on one side of the match — the less interesting one, in movie terms, anyhow.
The Philippines enjoys one of the most liberal media environments in Asia, but violence against journalists is common and probes into killings are often inconclusive or hamstrung by lack of witness testimony.
Several projects, including TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL to the United States, and the expansion of the government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline to the West Coast, have been hamstrung by battles with opponents.
The announcement follows a torrid period for Vicenza's outstanding debt as the fate of the lender, hamstrung by a capital shortage and on track for a state rescue, hangs in the balance.
After all, Donald Trump and the new European right-wing apparently share a skepticism of a solid NATO alliance, a united European Union and the regime of sanctions that have hamstrung Russia.
But it has been hamstrung by years of delays, during which competitors have come up with alternative pipelines to ship Canadian crude to foreign markets that may reduce the volumes flowing south.
"The housing market has been hamstrung by insufficient supply, with inventories of homes remarkably low given the home price growth we have experienced," MBA's chief economist Michael Fratantoni said in a statement.
The GNA has been hamstrung by its failure to win endorsement from Haftar's allies, and its leaders have appeared increasingly isolated and dependent on Western backing since arriving in Tripoli in March.
Many foreign traders have stopped accepting bond notes as legal tender, leaving businesses such as millers, brewers and miners hamstrung - and there are concerns that the RTGS dollar will be equally unloved.
More than its contemporaries, 'Uncharted' plays like a movie While Uncharted wasn't the most financially successful of the cinematic game franchises, hamstrung playing on Sony hardware, it quickly became a critical darling.
Instead, for more than 50 years, American businesses and farmers have been hamstrung by it, unable to fully tap into a market with 11 million people just 90 miles from our shore.
Washington (CNN)Democratic data gurus are lashing out at Hillary Clinton after she complained publicly that her campaign was hamstrung by a party that had out-of-date information on individual voters.
The former vice president's rollout has been spot on, with none of the gaffes or negative press coverage that hamstrung his attempt to build momentum in the run-up to the announcement.
It seems harmless enough — other types of business own and operate their own stores all the time — but the company has been hamstrung in states where the dealership lobby is particularly strong.
Clyburn also cited a court decision last year that hamstrung the FTC's ability to enforce privacy protections, and she argued that there is now no agency to ensure consumers' data is secure.
Drones are developing so rapidly that the Federal Aviation Authority can't keep up, but most unmanned aerial vehicles are still hamstrung by a limited range, forcing pilots to keep them in view.
Trump's desire, often expressed during the 2016 presidential campaign, to improve relations has been hamstrung by findings from U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered to help the Republican against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
As a consequence, consumers will be needlessly hamstrung both in fuel choice and ways to save money at the pump at a time when summer gasoline prices are at four-year highs.
The White House has banned live audio, cameras, and streams at press briefings consistently since the end of June, leaving some outlets hamstrung and raising questions about the administration's commitment to transparency.
Brexit and U.K. leader Theresa May's ill-fated snap election have left the Conservative government hamstrung and weakened, as the prime minister seems to be hanging onto her position by a thread.
About as many peg the GOP's failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act as Trump's biggest defeat, a prime example of the bipartisan opposition they believe has so far hamstrung his presidency.
The problem, of course, is that this creates the worst of all possible worlds: an enterprise hamstrung by government rules, with essentially a government-sanctioned monopoly, that has taxpayers footing the bill.
In our insistence on despair as the most authentic iteration of experience, we risk writing fiction that is hamstrung in its ability to represent our humanity with the necessary breadth and nuance.
"The backbiting is further paralyzing federal agencies, which have been hamstrung by slow hiring, disorganization and an overall lack of direction since Trump's inauguration," is how Politico described it this month. 953.
For example, when Sinclair found its merger ambitions hamstrung by a rule barring a broadcaster from owning multiple stations in smaller local markets, the FCC quickly set to work eliminating that restriction.
Facing that future interference from an adversarial foreign power, the US is hamstrung to prepare and deal with it because, well, the president wants all the credit for having won last year.
Climate change is so unlike any risk we have ever dealt with that we are hamstrung by a basic inability to articulate what it is, or what it means for our lives.
Especially after March 4, as its citizens await to discover what sort of new government they will get, Fabro's "Italy" feels familiar again, a portrait of a country both exquisite and hamstrung.
Analysts hoped the dismissal of Mr. Abrahams would help restore the independence of a justice system drawn into factional battles within the governing party, the A.N.C., and hamstrung by high-level corruption.
With no prior experience in animation and a brazen contempt for the corporate censorship and parent groups that had hamstrung pre-Nicktoon shows like Ren and Stimpy and Animaniacs, Vasquez and co.
Recovery is also hamstrung by the fact that few are left untouched by a severe disaster: The officials responsible for leading the recovery are themselves sometimes fighting to get on their feet.
Although the United States could have devised additional policy initiatives to change the global energy market the past two decades, it has been hamstrung by its longstanding worship of free-market principles.
Francois Savary, chief investment officer at Prime Partners, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Wednesday that Turkey is economically hamstrung by its continued need to finance what it owes to other countries.
In the end, however, she and other candidates were hamstrung by the same thing that has sheltered Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg — the structural discrimination that comes from how we define electability.
But they said they were hamstrung because, under federal antitrust law, a trade association cannot control or suggest prices of members, and lawyers advised them to avoid even discussing prices with competitors.
However, reductionist and neocolonial theories of Mexican cartels have for too long hamstrung efforts to properly understand these complex entities and capture the vast potential therein, according to Dr. Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez.
Albania hopes to start soon, Macedonia is hamstrung by its dispute with Greece about its name, Bosnia is mired in inter-ethnic squabbling, and Kosovo is not even recognised by five EU members.
It isn't a great gaming rig for competitive players, but you can enjoy some good-looking rounds of Civilization VI or XCOM 2 without being hamstrung by a less-than-ideal frame rate.
I used it as my primary laptop for a week, and it delivers on the extreme portability and flexibility if it seems a little unnecessarily hamstrung for a device that ships for $1,000.
Some investors have said the green bond market has been hamstrung by a lack of commonly agreed standards on what constitutes a green bond and transparency about how proceeds from sales are used.
Empirical assessments of QE programmes convey mixed messages about their impact, and are hamstrung by the difficulty of isolating the effect of one policy among many on complex economies buffeted by many forces.
"Some interested buyers, such as The Philippines, are hamstrung by their military assistance pacts with the US," firearms expert Daniel Watters notes in a meticulously researched timeline of the rifle and its cartridge.
Critics say the 10,000-strong U.N. force's ability to bring peace to Mali is hamstrung by its lack of an aggressive counter-terrorism mandate, so it cannot hunt militants to pre-empt attack.
And such is the despair that the German notion of Kerneuropa, or "core Europe", is resurfacing, in which those countries willing to forge ahead should not be hamstrung by the reluctance of others.
Instead, they have set up a binary choice between persuading London to go back to the drawing board for a year or two and remaining as a hamstrung member state or quitting immediately.
The police were hamstrung in their investigation because, while a California state law made it illegal not to report a witnessed crime against a child, it only applied to children 14 and under.
The card, revealed Monday at an elaborate Apple event, is hamstrung by the still-limited reach of Apple Pay, according to analysts led by Rod Hall, a senior equity analyst at the bank.
Merkel earlier this month gave her strongest endorsement of Macron's proposals, but Germany has been hamstrung in taking more decisive action on any concrete proposals until it has a new government in place.
Coal will further be hamstrung by the flight of capital from the sector, with commercial and development banks, insurers and trading companies starting to retreat from financing and insuring mines and power plants.
His (fictional) father is a minister who associates with Martin Luther King senior, both members of an older black generation for whom the new police officers, hamstrung as they are, represent a breakthrough.
While the OCE remains hamstrung by the lack of subpoena power, attempts to undermine it by both parties in Congress are a disservice to the public and to the House as an institution.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the hamstrung Supreme Court has slowed the number of new cases it is accepting for next term, likely reluctant to take on cases the justices may not be able to resolve.
Last year, Chinese airline profits were hamstrung by a weak yuan given the fact that carriers had taken many U.S. dollar-denominated loans to buy planes as part of ambitious fleet expansion plans.
Meanwhile, Chinese companies — which have been big spenders outside China in recent years — have been hamstrung by a series of new regulations introduced by Beijing to curb what it called "irrational" foreign investments.
Trump has sought better relations, but has been hamstrung by a two-year investigation into the 2016 influence campaign by Russian operatives to attack Trump's Democratic rival in the presidential election, Hillary Clinton.
Boeing orders continued to slow last month as the manufacturer, hamstrung by the grounding of its bestselling 737 Max after two fatal crashes, handed a bigger lead over to its European rival Airbus.
As the DPKO assessment makes clear, a month later, the UN's contingency planning remains hamstrung by a lack of resources and, even if deployed, peacekeepers that are largely untested in preventing mass atrocities.
That's why it's easier to write about someone who has died, like Reed, and why Jimmy McDonough and Stephen Davis are hamstrung in their respective unauthorized biographies of Al Green and Stevie Nicks.
Both sides would again try to win the prime ministerial contest and, assured of the Senate vote, the pro-military parties would get it again but still be hamstrung in the lower house.
Second, the "debt sanctions" levied by the Trump administration that prohibit United States citizens or institutions from buying or issuing new Venezuelan debt have hamstrung the Maduro government's ability to raise new funds.
A bloated, lumbering production that seemed hamstrung by excess when it opened in New York 10 years ago, it has been reincarnated at the Garrick Theater in a slimmer, more light-footed form.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's next government seems certain to be hamstrung by tough spending restrictions after the country missed its 2015 public deficit target by almost a full percentage point, far more than expected.
The country's thinly populated north, where Aboriginal influence and traditions are much stronger than in the south, is not as hamstrung by political debates and residents' concerns about the health effects of smoke.
But critics said Europe's efforts to salvage the deal had been weak, in part because all three countries — not just Britain — have been hamstrung by their desire to maintain good relations with Washington.
Retail soon dramatically changed, led by the rapid rise of Amazon, and Toys R Us found itself hamstrung by payments, unable to make the investments it needed to in order to keep up.
"It's hard to see a compelling argument that they would have been hamstrung in their ability to create jobs if they had been forced to pay taxes like everyone else does," said Gardner.
Biden bundler Dick Harpootlian lashed out at the Democratic National Committee, saying its decision to ban joint fundraising committees this cycle has hamstrung the Biden campaign, which has been under assault by Trump.
The speaker, Carl Heastie, said this month that his members were concerned that the plan would leave them hamstrung in the face of independent expenditure groups that can flood a race with money.
But on the critical issue of cargo cheating, even an army of honest inspectors would be hamstrung by the fact that they do not have equipment to independently weigh trucks right before loading.
With Brexit talks all but hamstrung over how much Britain should pay to leave the European Union, opposition lawmakers and other critics are now openly questioning whether May can continue as prime minister.
But Hannity I got to say your show was great and the point that Trump made yesterday when he said, he was clearly annoyed that the Mueller investigation has hamstrung the relationship with Russia.
"Darren Woods did an effective job in laying out the story, but he was hamstrung by his predecessor's mistakes and the market's increasingly skeptical sentiment on the stock," Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov said.
Whatever the resolution, the company is effectively hamstrung: Either Amazon's directive supersedes Mackey's, or the company ends up with a two-tiered system where warehouse workers aren't offered stock but grocery store workers are.
The endorsement was a jolt for the bipartisan bill, but it also jabbed at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has relentlessly threatened a pot crackdown and would be hamstrung and humiliated by the measure.
BA is the only airline not hamstrung by these costs because it already holds more than 50% of the slots—few of which it ever paid for, given its history as the flag-carrier.
Delhi's AAP government, for instance, has found itself hamstrung by varied forms of obstruction from the BJP-led central government, not to mention by scores of spurious lawsuits and repeated police raids and investigations.
Lawsuits seeking to hold big businesses responsible for gun violence are hamstrung by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a federal law that shields gunmakers and sellers from liability in most cases.
Buttigieg has been hamstrung by racial controversies back home in South Bend and being gay is a barrier for some black people, but his campaign has been working overtime to make a connection here.
Many Europeans secretly yearn to return to that happy arrangement once (they assume) Mr Trump leaves office in 2021; or sooner, if he is hamstrung by a hostile Congress after the November mid-terms.
"That's not to say we should be complacent, but I don't see any evidence to say we are hamstrung in our ambitions to lead not just in the U.S. but to lead the world."
New York (CNN)Mark Cuban is questioning Donald Trump's ability to function independently if elected, saying the presumptive Republican nominee would be a "puppet president" hamstrung by a lack of experience and intellectual rigor.
State officials said they were hamstrung in what they could do to punish prison employees by the collective bargaining agreement with the corrections officers' union, which makes it almost impossible to fire a guard.
He later said that he had been hamstrung from making changes there, blaming his boss, Robert J. Wussler, the president of the CBS Television Network, who had preceded Mr. Frank in the sports job.
As a civil regulatory agency, the S.E.C. does not have the authority to obtain a warrant, so it claimed it would be hamstrung in trying to obtain email evidence in its securities fraud investigations.
But on Thursday, the American search giant tried to portray itself as a stalwart of online competition as it responded to European antitrust charges that it had restricted consumers' choices and hamstrung its competitors.
Two of Macron's main opponents were hamstrung by corruption allegations during the bitter battle for the presidency and his government has put political probity front and centre in its first two weeks in power.
Four-times Asian champions Japan lost 4-1 to Colombia in Brazil and have been hamstrung by a poor build-up to the tournament, including the sacking of Bosnian coach Vahid Halilhodzic in April.
Major powers are rushing to strengthen their militaries through artificial intelligence, but the US is hamstrung by certain challenges that rivals like China may not face, giving them an advantage in this strategic competition.
"I saw America in full — not as it appears on Twitter and cable news, where we're constantly shown a country hamstrung by our differences and unable to tackle the problems we face," he said.
Yet Part D plans are hamstrung by current rules from really negotiating over drugs in these protected classes, allowing pharma to run up huge profits on patients who desperately need these often-expensive drugs.
Editorial Soon after his inauguration next month, President-elect Donald Trump will nominate someone to the Supreme Court, which has been hamstrung by a vacancy since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February.
The FBI's domestic terrorism investigations into right-wing extremists might be hamstrung by politics, even as the FBI appears to be directing more resources toward the spurious threat posed by black civil rights activists.
It is moving ahead while other mass transit improvement ambitions — for the subway system in New York City, for an innovative elevated train line in Honolulu — have also been hamstrung by costs and opposition.
She's hamstrung by her affection for him, if mere affection is the word: She had him design her face-lift and slept next to a blown-up photograph of the two of them together.
But efforts to move 10,000 people out of harm's way have been hamstrung because "the resource envelope is small" and costs for new homes, schools, water pipes and other infrastructure are high, he added.
But even as Mr. Obama makes progress in his drive to forge closer commercial ties with Cuba, the process is hamstrung by sanctions that have left American businesses wondering what they are permitted to do.
So they have in effect hamstrung, yes, the president but also their ability to cut the deals that they need to cut whether it&aposs on what Walid very correctly says, Ukraine, Syria or nuclear.
Trump has spent his first months hamstrung by a series of events, such as his debunked insistence that Trump Tower was wiretapped by President Barack Obama and the lengthy saga over campaign ties to Russia.
Within two months, Into's entire editorial staff was laid off, and by spring, Grindr had shelved plans for an initial public offering, which had been hamstrung by mismanagement and government scrutiny of its Chinese owner.
Structural problems have hamstrung growth, and Pakistan is awash in external debt, having taken on billions of dollars in loans from countries such as China and Saudi Arabia to ease pressures on its current account.
Earlier this year, Breed passed two new laws expediting the building of navigation centers that historically had been hamstrung by lengthy permit and challenge processes that kept any potential solutions moving at a glacial pace.
But manufacturing, which makes up about 22018% of the economy, remains hamstrung by weaker business spending on equipment, an inventory glut, a bitter trade war between the United States and China, and softening global growth.
Ninth Circuit Federal Judge Alex Kozinski, one of the more vocal critics, suggested in the preface to last summer's  Georgetown Law Journal's Annual Review of Criminal Procedure that he felt hamstrung by strict federal guidelines.
A leaking campaign by the CIA is one consequence, and presages a potentially crippling problem for the Trump administration: Even a president, with all of his executive power, can be hamstrung by a hostile bureaucracy.
Print outlets, particularly local newspapers, have been decimated for years—first hamstrung by the loss of their classified advertisement monopoly, and then ultimately undone by a lethal combination of digital disruption, mismanagement, and private equity.
The problems are myriad because the ethics office was hamstrung by design from day one: It cannot launch investigations or impose sanctions, for example, and rules protecting its director from being fired are missing entirely.
With three interwoven narratives and very strong themes, the second game in the series was arguably its narrative high point, but it was hamstrung by technical problems so deep that they are difficult to overlook.
The opposition Labor Party, for example, has more a stringent selection process for candidates, so its lawmakers have so far avoided the resignation wave that has hamstrung Mr. Turnbull's Liberal Party and some minor parties.
In 2012, in its first ruling on the Affordable Care Act, the court hamstrung Congress's expansion of Medicaid eligibility from the very poor to the working poor by effectively making expanded coverage optional for states.
Bolsonaro has hamstrung Brazil's environmental enforcement agency with budget cuts amounting to $23 million -- official data sent to CNN by Observatorio do Clima shows the enforcement agency's operations have fallen since Bolsonaro was sworn in.
India's financial sector has struggled with an ongoing crisis where banks and non-bank lenders have accumulated large amounts of bad debt that are weighing on their profitability and have hamstrung lending as a result.
In recent months, the administration's broader effort to roll back Mr. Obama's 54.5-mile-per-gallon standard has been hamstrung, as agency staff members have struggled to find legal and scientific justifications for the rollback.
Trump has been clear that he wants to improve relations with Russia, a desire that has been hamstrung by findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered to help the Republican against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Republicans appeared particularly hamstrung by the sympathetic nature of a witness like Yovanovich, who has won virtually unanimous admiration from her colleagues in nearly every facet of the federal government, including among Trump's own appointees.
But in the 12 months through June, they actually produced a negative return of 0.61 percent, hamstrung by a 17 percent average negative return among retail R.E.I.T.s, according to David Kathman, an analyst at Morningstar.
Trump dismissed their concerns, saying he can speak with anyone he chooses, and that he did not feel hamstrung by the "one China" policy that would be undermined by such high-level contact with Taiwan.
To be sure, Trump sound bites calling NATO obsolete and suggesting that the US won't defend members that don't "reasonably reimburse" it for protecting them have raised Russian hopes that the alliance could soon be hamstrung.
Aside from the hokiness of the script, the game also hamstrung itself by trying to have it both ways — allowing players to create their own avatar but then shoehorning that avatar into a visually black world.
Instead, it's a reminder of how hamstrung technology companies are when trying to bridge the gap between our current app-centric world and a digital media future that's deliberately kept out of reach by cable companies.
NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Farmers worldwide are feeling the pinch as fuel costs rise to near four-year highs just as they plant and harvest their fields, eroding agricultural income already hamstrung by depressed crop prices.
Aside from the hokiness of the script, the game also hamstrung itself by trying to have it both ways — allowing players to create their own avatar, but then shoehorning that avatar into a visually black world.
Both Deutsche and Commerzbank - the two biggest lenders in Europe's biggest economy - have been slipping down the rankings of the continent's top banks, hamstrung by a fragmented and competitive home market and rock-bottom interest rates.
South African mining companies, which produce 70 percent of the world's platinum, are hamstrung by soaring costs and low precious metal prices as well as new rules requiring higher black ownership that they say discourage investment.
Her roots are unquestionably progressive, and some observers believe she was hamstrung on issues like the death penalty by California's powerful police unions and other law enforcement groups, from which she might now have more leeway.
Trump's supporters seem to see a country in decline, a government that is out of control and incompetent, an influx of immigrants that represent an existential threat and a culture that is hamstrung by political correctness.
The five-year tenure of Sharif's party has been hamstrung by hostility with the military, which was stung by criticism of its policy of backing militant proxies and Sharif's efforts to reconcile with arch-rival India.
The Syrian insurgency has been hamstrung from the outset by divisions among rebel groups fighting Assad, including the ideological split over whether to pursue Sunni jihadist goals or the more nationalist agenda backed by FSA groups.
Even a state as big, wealthy and liberal as California — with the world's fifth-largest economy and nearly 40 million people — would find itself hamstrung by money, a legal and regulatory thicket, and highly motivated opposition.
Defense hawks received $165 billion more for the Pentagon, which they said had been hamstrung not only by a shortage of money, but by the stop-and-start process that had made forecasting and planning impossible.
The list could go on, but the point is simple — in all these areas, there are huge opportunities for growth that are being hamstrung by rules that protect existing companies at the expense of new ones.
Until Anthony agrees to waive the irrational no-trade clause Jackson handed him in 2014 — and he said in the MSG interview that Anthony still preferred to stay — Jackson is hamstrung on the full-rebuild front.
It's bad enough to have U.S. marshals disrupt your trade show, but it would be far worse to host an event hamstrung by cheap products based on stolen ideas and full of inventors operating in fear.
Trump wants to improve relations with Russia, a desire that has been hamstrung by the conclusions of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Republican Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Strong-willed and independent, Mr. Boutros-Ghali took the helm determined to subdue aggression and pursue peace after the fall of Soviet Communism and a relaxation of East-West tensions that had long hamstrung the United Nations.
Both Deutsche and Commerzbank - the two biggest lenders in Europe's biggest economy - have been slipping down the rankings of the continent's top banks, hamstrung by a fragmented and competitive home market, growing regulation and negative interest rates.
While it is definitely the cheapest Surface computer you can currently get (there's also an $27 Surface Pro tablet—but it doesn't include a keyboard or stylus), it, like the $23 Surface Pro, is a little hamstrung.
For years, Google had struggled to get out of its own way in business software, hamstrung by a developer-centric culture that prioritized automation and fast, easy-to-use products over communication with business buyers and users.
But they expect that a disaster relief bill for Harvey will not suffer from the same internal political dramas that hamstrung efforts to pass relief funding after Hurricane Sandy devastated New York and New Jersey in 2012.
I don't know what's worse: them being well staffed and pursuing policies that are destructive, or them being hamstrung by the ability to do much at all, because there are so many key positions that are vacant.
But they expect that a disaster relief bill for Harvey will not suffer from the same internal political dramas that hamstrung efforts to pass relief funding after Hurricane Sandy devastated New York and New Jersey in 2000.
In the doctor's office, one of the most challenging moments with ObamaCare insurance is when a patient is hamstrung by her deductible and can't have a test or treatment she needs despite a hefty (government subsidized) premium.
"Traditionally we've been a little bit hamstrung because we didn't have an NFL team there and we didn't have the chance to activate around any single team" said Nick Kelly, director of experiential marketing at Anheuser-Busch.
John Sandweg, former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Obama administration, said the Trump administration's focus on deterring migrants at the expense of other policies had hamstrung Nielsen and would likely hobble McAleenan.
If the draft bill is defeated at the end of the first reading, expected by Saturday, then the government will be hamstrung without funds and may need to either resign or dissolve parliament, according to the constitution.
Racial unrest, police violence, multiple tax revolts, a state government increasingly hamstrung by "reform" measures from the early 214th century that had turned into sources of paralysis — all of these fed a sense of promise gone bad.
The worst is over for India's public sector banks, which have struggled in recent years with large levels of bad debt that have hamstrung their growth, according Jayant Sinha, the country's minister of state for civil aviation.
Conversely, if an attack can be tied to Islamic radicalism, Trump will say "I told you so"—and argue that he was trying to protect the American people, but was hamstrung by the courts and other enemies.
The source familiar with the debate said U.S. negotiators are hamstrung by the fact that they do not really know where Trump's "red line" is and so they cannot tell the Europeans what would secure Trump's blessing.
Suu Kyi's defenders say the Nobel Peace Prize winner - who spent years under house arrest for opposing army rule - is hamstrung by a military-drafted constitution that keeps the generals in politics and free from civilian oversight.
Trump, who has record low approval ratings and is politically hamstrung by investigations into his ties to Russia, has praised Xi's new stature, comparing him to a king during an interview on Fox Business channel last week.
But after disrupting the automotive world with innovative technology, stunning designs and its commitment to an all-electric lineup, Tesla is hamstrung on the most basic part of the car business: getting new vehicles built on time.
Germany's flagship lender has trailed its rivals in bouncing back from the 2008 financial crisis, hamstrung by having to pay out billions of dollars in fines to end a string of legal disputes and ageing technical infrastructure.
When Nixon next headed to Moscow in a last-ditch effort to negotiate an arms control deal with the Soviets, he was hamstrung by the need to keep conservatives on board at home to fend off impeachment.
Suu Kyi's defenders say the Nobel Peace Prize winner - who spent years under house arrest for opposing Myanmar's junta - is hamstrung by a military-drafted constitution that keeps the generals in politics and free from civilian oversight.
This may indeed turn out to be the case, as new coal-fired plants are expensive to build and could be hamstrung by the planned emissions guarantee, not to mention mounting public opposition to the polluting fuel.
It's going to mean probably more lobbyists in DC working with federal folks to ensure that their business doesn't get hamstrung as a result as well as more of a presence in those cities and states and counties.
The Obama administration, in part due to its own choices and in part because it was hamstrung by some Bush-era Supreme Court decisions that made convictions harder to secure, didn't really try to bring anyone to justice.
Once harboring aspirations to be the YouTube of sound, the Berlin-based company has struggled to remain viable, hamstrung by management missteps, an ineffective business strategy, and a stubborn music industry that would rather it had never existed.
The central bank has resisted calls to devalue the naira currency, though a Reuters poll this week predicted that a dollar shortage, which has hamstrung businesses that need the greenback for imports, would prompt a devaluation by September.
Diaz-Canel called for further loosening of government controls over the state-run companies that dominate the economy and which remained "hamstrung" and the formation of better ties between them and foreign investors and a growing private sector.
The medical services firm filed for Chapter 20103 bankruptcy protection on February 11, citing financial stress incurred since losing business from key customers such as post-acute care, assisted living facilities and correctional centers that are equally hamstrung.
Is there any reason to believe that the next Speaker, elected under the same system, subject to the same rules and hamstrung by the same institutional traditions, would be any more likely to successfully fix the broken House?
Chinese Hedge Funds Head for Hong Kong | Hamstrung by Beijing's crackdown on investment activities after the stock market plunge last year, growing numbers of Chinese hedge fund managers are seeking to set up new funds in Hong Kong.
Joseph Lewnard, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, says researchers are hamstrung in the United States by the lack of specific data on testing and on the symptoms patients show.
Here, conservatives celebrate the successes in Mr. Trump's short time in office: a conservative Supreme Court justice now seated; Mexico and Canada back to the trading table; red tape cut; the E.P.A. hamstrung; climate change nonsense tossed aside.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain criticized the European Union on Sunday over the process of agreeing on its negotiating mandate for post-Brexit trade talks, saying the bloc was "hamstrung by indecision and delay" because different members wanted different things.
This was perpetually hamstrung by petty rivalry between the calculating Mr Wickremesinghe and the little-lamented departing president, Maithripala Sirisena, a former camp-follower of the Rajapaksas who destructively lashed out against his relegation to a figurehead role.
In their bid to confirm cabinet picks quickly, Republicans have been hamstrung at times by lax preparation from Mr. Trump's team and the sprawling financial holdings of many of his nominees, which have produced reams of ethics paperwork.
With Pheu Thai likely to be hamstrung by those rules, other pro-Thaksin parties such as Thai Raksa Chart and the Pheu Chart party are intended to gain some of the proportionally awarded seats that favor smaller parties.
A stronger dollar, spiking bond yields and rising optimism over the outlook for financial markets has hobbled gold, while the traditional saviors of a falling market, Indian and Chinese gold buyers, are hamstrung by cash controls and import curbs.
He's funded Galactic through more than a decade as its space plane has undergone developing, building and testing — and that time includes a deadly 2014 crash that hamstrung Galactic for months and led the firm to switch manufacturing partners.
Fadell felt blindsided by Duffy and hamstrung by legal agreements restricting what he could say publicly: "I was disappointed Google did not step up to the line when these personal attacks were made on me and Nest," he says.
U.S. Treasury yields US10YT=RR fell to their lowest in nearly three weeks, drifting past significant technical levels, as fixed-income investors worried that President Donald Trump's pro-growth policies could be hamstrung by his focus on other issues.
US, China plan joint military drills Engines limit progress Defense analysts have often pointed out that while China has made great strides in advancing its military aviation capabilities over the years, it remains hamstrung in the aero-engine domain.
The big winner could be the stock market overall as a hamstrung government leaves in place much of what President Donald Trump has accomplished, but also keeps in check on some of his more extreme actions like trade battles.
"A good example is the borrower defense rule that just plainly offered debt relief to people who were completed scammed by fraudulent education companies and this administration completely hamstrung the program until borrowers took them to court," he said.
"Despite the fact that Congress finally passed my bill to reauthorize the agency last December, the Ex-Im Bank has still been hamstrung from supporting American jobs and businesses because there isn't a majority on the board," she said.
Those include the "killswitch" that hamstrung the ransomware, poor coding practices making it easy to recover many of the encrypted files without paying, having no method to tell who paid the ransom and struggling to infect Windows XP servers.
However, in a disappointingly reminiscent narrative of previous administrations, partisan politics and a hostile opposition have stalled Delhi's reform push, including delays to legislation on an important goods and services tax sought by businesses hamstrung by existing, cumbersome levies.
Beyond just making the technology work, The Boring Company will likely be hamstrung by mountains of permits and environmental impact reports, you know all the general government hurdles you have to deal with when you want to dig underground.
In season one, Kyle Chandler was his typically strong self, but the actor was hamstrung by having to play the less interesting character — the good son who tried to keep everything together in the face of Danny's criminal escapades.
The use of chemical weapons has become systematic in Syria's seven-year war, but political rifts between Western powers and Russia have hamstrung the United Nations and the OPCW, leaving them unable to act against violations of international law.
TOKYO, March 11 (Reuters) - Nine years after Japan's 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster, the government's handling of the coronavirus epidemic shows it remains hamstrung in responding to crises, the head of the commission that investigated the Fukushima accident said.
Yet the providers of those services say they are unprepared to step into the breach, hamstrung by regulations ill-suited to the current pandemic and unable to access protective gear that could shield workers and clients alike from infection.
The pro-business Bolsonaro has hamstrung Brazil's environmental enforcement agency with budget cuts amounting to $23 million -- official data sent to CNN by Observatorio do Clima shows the enforcement agency's operations have gone down since Bolsonaro was sworn in.
SAO PAULO, May 25 (Reuters) - Brazil's Finance Minister Eduardo Guardia said on Friday that the government must find "structural solutions" to rising diesel prices, as truckers protesting fuel costs continued a nationwide blockade that has hamstrung key sectors of the economy.
That's potentially good news for generals who felt hamstrung by the Obama administration, but it carries clear risks for both Trump and the US. "Conflict is a lot more complex" than it seems, according to former Navy Undersecretary Janine Davidson.
After catcher Jorge Alfaro doubled off the wall in left center, Cesar Hernandez beat out an infield single to score the rookie and give starter Henderson Alvarez a two-run cushion to pitch with, but command issues hamstrung his performance.
The bright outlook for the IT industry is not matched in other sectors of the Belarussian economy, which remains hamstrung by loss-making state-owned companies that have seen little or no reform since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Bottom line: There's no chance Meadows flips without a change to the bill, but the White House is hamstrung because a shift to the right would lose moderates who are already nervous about the plan's lack of generosity to seniors.
Japan's second-largest lender by asset aims to obtain the London-based company's expertise in emerging-market equities to attract Japanese investors hamstrung by low domestic returns, the Nikkei said, adding the deal is slated to close this financial year.
The broader report — which is the third of five the committee plans to release from its investigation into Russia's election manipulation efforts — criticizes the Obama administration for being too slow and timid in its response and too hamstrung by political concerns.
There are some inherent flaws with this sort of storytelling (I think it genuinely hamstrung Westworld's ultimately rousing story of class revolution), but it can be fun when done well — especially if it turns the audience into an unseen extra character.
"The limelight is elsewhere right now and the UK economy is still quite hamstrung by slowing growth and Brexit concerns ... there's plenty of places people would rather be investing than sterling right now," WorldFirst head of FX strategy Jeremy Cook said.
Regarding the lack of evidence supporting the idea that net neutrality has held back innovation: We have seen self-serving statements from broadband providers that our net neutrality rules have somehow hamstrung them from bringing "innovative" new offerings to market before.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese financial firms risk falling behind on the world stage as efforts to adopt blockchain technology that promises to save billions of dollars in backroom processing and revolutionize the finance industry are hamstrung by a dearth of specialists.
A half dozen people familiar with the White House deliberations said they were hamstrung by a long-standing split within the Obama Administration, pitting Comey and the DOJ against technology advisors and other agencies including the Commerce and State Departments.
Parker, who's appeared as an actor in Red Hook Summer and Beyond the Lights, makes his feature directorial debut here, and he is both strengthened and hamstrung by the passion he brings to a project he's been developing for years.
But explorers have been spurred on by finds of offshore gas in Tanzania and Mozambique and onshore oil in Kenya and Uganda, although exploiting those reserves has been hamstrung by the slide in oil prices and retrenchment by oil firms.
But the vote comes at a moment of intense scrutiny of the Trump administration's handling of national security, while the intelligence community and multiple lawmakers express concern that Coats will be hamstrung by a limited role in Trump's national security apparatus.
If you've grown up a power user of MacOS, Windows, or Linux, then Chrome OS feels like getting cut off at the knees, and hardware can't possibly distract you from how hamstrung Chrome OS is compared to its more mature competitors.
For too long, those willing to fix problems have been hamstrung by a minority of intransigent members of both parties—ideologues enthralled by the notion that if they just say no to any compromise they'll eventually get what they want.
Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank have lost 55 percent and 49.3 percent respectively this year as Britain's decision to leave the European Union worsened an already grim outlook for the banks hamstrung by sluggish markets, high regulatory costs and fines.
The typical Xperia flagship phone costs a lot and has the latest specs and an eye-catching design, but it also tends to launch without the latest Android on board, and its great camera is usually hamstrung by bad software.
Although Suu Kyi formed Myanmar's first civilian government in half a century, her defenders say she is hamstrung by a constitution written by the military that left the army in control of security and much of the apparatus of the state.
Trump administration officials have described the changes as a deliberate effort to empower the military and reverse the protocols that defined the Obama administration's oversight of military campaigns that much of the top brass described as micromanagement that needlessly hamstrung commanders.
But the vote came at a moment of intense scrutiny of the Trump administration's handling of national security, while the intelligence community and multiple lawmakers expressed concern that Coats would be hamstrung by a limited role in Trump's national security apparatus.
The S.E.C.'s case was hamstrung by the refusal of the corporate executive to travel to the United States to testify in person, leaving the agency with little evidence to show an agreement, which Mr. Cuban denied making when he testified.
Should this amendment pass into law, the FDA would be hamstrung as they would not be able to use the DOJ to bring about enforcement action against those who are actively taking advantage of the cover given by this amendment.
"The question is whether the U.S. is willing and able to give any concessions to Russia," Chausovsky explained, adding that Trump has shown a willingness to lift the penalties against Moscow, but he has so far been hamstrung by Congress.
But the vote came at a moment of intense scrutiny of the Trump administration's handling of national security, while the intelligence community and multiple lawmakers express concern that Coats will be hamstrung by a limited role in Trump's national security apparatus.
But there is acknowledgment on both sides of the lectern that some re-examination of the system is warranted, especially at a time when news organizations, which must pay their way to follow the president, are increasingly hamstrung by budget constraints.
The central bank swaps had managed to get more dollars into the banking system but the flow of that cash into brokerages, companies and other end users of dollar funding was still hamstrung by concerns over credit quality, analysts said.
The central bank swaps had managed to get more dollars into the banking system but the flow of that cash into brokerages, companies and other end users of dollar funding was still hamstrung by concerns over credit quality, analysts said.
The lack of European competition helped, of course, and Conte has been fortunate that he has not been too badly hamstrung by injury, but it would be unfair to suggest mere fortune, and an easier schedule, is what delivered the title.
The shutdown alone cost the US economy billions of dollars and hamstrung US national security by allowing serious threats to go unanswered for weeks, while hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed or unable to fully perform their roles.
Change is certainly in the air for the S.E.C. The question is whether it will be hamstrung by the Financial Choice Act 2.0 if it is adopted in its current form, and how effective it will be in policing corporate America.
A handful of small companies on Friday violated long-standing tech industry norms by testifying publicly against the world's largest tech firms, alleging for the congressional record that Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook have hamstrung and harmed their businesses for years.
And, as the Washington Post revealed on Friday, the genuine efforts they did make to go after drug distributors were hamstrung by deep connections between an alliance of pharma companies and former DEA regulators, as well as highly effective lobbying.
Though her party has a strong majority in Parliament, it is hamstrung by a power-sharing arrangement dictated by the military-drafted Constitution, which gives the military control of key ministries and enough seats in Parliament to block any constitutional amendment.
The execs and their companies were thought to be hamstrung by lucrative sales relationships with government bureaus as well as looming legal battles in similar cases and broader concerns about public opinion, which continues to be firmly divided on the issue.
The conventional industrial model governing the American defense industry is severely hamstrung by everything from the vagaries of funding cycles to the influence of corporate lobbyists, making it tremendously difficult for the US military to keep pace with its nimbler adversaries.
This time round, though, Trump's apparent lack of interest in the subject has hamstrung what little chance there was for an election debate about, say, the wisdom of overthrowing Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, or of the US's unwavering support for Israel.
Topher Spiro, a prominent Obamacare defender at the Center for American Progress, said the activism and public outcry forced McConnell to try to ram a secret bill through the Senate without hearings or debate — a process that in turn hamstrung Senate Republicans.
Bregman, bullpen deliver win for Astros HOUSTON — Despite being hamstrung by an injury-ravaged rotation and an overworked bullpen, Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch somehow managed to set up his pitching on Saturday to cover four high-leverage innings with his best relievers.
Even then, the FTC is often hamstrung because there's not enough evidence to build a strong case, or because many peddlers of fake reviews aren't located in the US. Multiple agency staffers described the Sunday Riley case an unusually good enforcement opportunity.
LONDON (Reuters) - Boutique advisory firms now receive nearly half of all mergers and acquisition fees in Europe, stealing market share and top dealmakers from global investment banks hamstrung by a renewed focus on cost-cutting and regulations on how much they can pay.
While the FCC has already been able to push through big changes like its proposal to reverse net neutrality, assuming both commissioners get seated, it'll be far less hamstrung on the day-to-day issues that typically take up its staff's time.
Critics of U.S. President Barack Obama, who has sought to avoid getting into another Middle East war and seems unlikely to do so in his final months, argued that U.S. diplomacy has been hamstrung by the White House's reluctance to use force.
"Despite the fact that Congress finally passed my bill to reauthorize the agency last December, the Ex-Im Bank has still been hamstrung from supporting American jobs and businesses because there isn't a majority on the board," she said in a statement.
However, some North Korea watchers worry that inconsistent and opaque messaging from the United States has hamstrung their position when it comes to North Korea, a country which test-fired two long-range missiles in July that could theoretically reach the US mainland.
"There was a time when I would've pounded the table on the bank stocks after yesterday's drubbing because I believed that some of the most onerous regulations that have hamstrung banks from controlling their own destiny would be repealed by now, " Cramer said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a seat vacant possibly until next year, the U.S. Supreme Court is accepting fewer cases and seeking compromises as it tries to avoid being hamstrung by 4-43 deadlocks on such contentious issues as abortion, birth control and immigration.
In the best case scenario, Season 3 moves forward without being hamstrung by her mental gymnastics, but going by the way Episode 4 ended it doesn't look like there's any intention to leave this awful person alone in the hell she created. 
The bill would put Puerto Rico's finances under a federally appointed oversight board, while allowing the U.S. territory to restructure a $70 billion debt load that threatens to collapse an economy already hamstrung by rampant emigration and a 45 percent poverty rate.
Deliberate effort Trump administration officials have described the changes as a deliberate effort to empower the military and reverse the protocols that defined the Obama administration's oversight of military campaigns that much of the top brass described as micromanagement that needlessly hamstrung commanders.
Western states have tried to work with the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli, but it has been hamstrung by internal splits and has been unable to halt a slide in living standards or tame the power of armed groups.
The pact aims to close a chapter in Argentina's history that started with its 2002 default on $100 billion in sovereign debt and sparked 14 years of lawsuits that have hamstrung the country's finances by keeping it locked out of the bond market.
Weiner all but admitted as much in his memo to employees: "Imagine a world where we're not pressured to compromise on long-term investment, hesitant to disrupt ourselves, or hamstrung in the way we can reward and acquire new talent," he wrote.
Guinea is a major producer of bauxite, an aluminium ore, but growth has been hamstrung by a slump in metals prices and a two-year Ebola epidemic in the West African nation that killed more than 2,500 people and drove away investors.
But the vote comes at a moment of intense scrutiny of the Trump administration's handling of national security, while the intelligence community and multiple lawmakers express concern that Coats will be hamstrung by a limited role in President Trump's national security apparatus.
Back in 2016, Hillary Clinton was hamstrung in her ability to attack Trump for his crude and misogynistic remarks on the infamous Access Hollywood tape, because her husband had glaring problems of his own, which she, back in the
 day, had defended.
The Saturday Profile KABUL, Afghanistan — HAMSTRUNG by student loans and dismayed at her meager prospects for repaying them, Kimberley Chongyon Motley left the long hours and low pay of the Milwaukee public defender's office in 2008 for the long-shot promise of Afghanistan.
The London-listed company, which has all its mines in South Africa, has been hamstrung for years by stubbornly low platinum prices, soaring costs and strikes, forcing it to bring out the begging bowl to investors twice in the last five years.
But his decision is a victory for the country, which has been hamstrung from returning to global capital markets by his earlier rulings requiring that it fully pay holders of defaulted bonds that were not restructured in 2005 and 2010 debt swaps.
"This is the largest city in the state and for too long it's been hamstrung by people's discomfort with its reputation," said Jonathan M. Cortell, the vice president of development for L & M Development Partners, which owns the Hahne's building with other partners.
In the early hours on Saturday morning, the House of Representatives passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to provide financial relief to Americans hamstrung by the novel coronavirus — which has increasingly shuttered businesses across the nation and encouraged consumers to stay home. 
Mr. Azar has privately expressed frustration to Dr. Redfield over the C.D.C.'s slow and faulty rollout of tests in February, which have caused panic among doctors and patients hamstrung by the federal government's restrictions on who can be tested, and when.
The notes were widely accepted in the early 17923s when the government, still operating under the Articles of Confederation, was hamstrung with fiscal problems, did not yet have a Constitution and could not count on virtually worthless currencies issued by the separate states.
It is certainly possible that Scotland will leave the UK—a possibility only hamstrung by the likelihood the EU would expect it to adopt the Euro, and the disinclination of Spain to make it easy for a small secessionist state to prosper.
Jean-Louis Trintignant's character makes for a compelling case study: He is a member of the secret police assigned to murder his former college professor, a political dissident exiled in Paris, but he's hamstrung by feelings for the professor's wife (Dominique Sanda).
Faulty test kits and internal divisions over how to respond to the spread of the virus in the United States hamstrung early efforts to get an accurate picture of how rapidly the virus was moving through the population, according to multiple reports.
Although born of a genuine effort by the Carter administration to address their fate, Camp David instead hamstrung Palestinians' aspirations for statehood and left them under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza, stripped of basic rights like the freedom of movement.
And it takes many months to label the data, ensure that all the relevant parts are to the highest standards that one expects, making sure that the right utilities are available for researchers to be able to make progress without being hamstrung.
Senators wrapped up their investigation on Thursday but they were nowhere near finding the truth of what happened as they were hamstrung by the country's strict bank secrecy laws and as casinos fall outside the ambit of the anti-money laundering law.
Months of post-election malaise hamstrung the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) fundraising over the first six months of 2017, creating a serious money gap with Republicans and raising questions about Democrats' ability to take advantage of opportunities in the 2018 midterm elections.
" McCabe, hamstrung by what he can say given that the Russia investigation is ongoing and by the fact that he's still under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in DC for misleading investigators in an unrelated probe, says he'd "like to say much more.
Uber's range of different ride-hailing services are active in more than 80 countries and almost 700 cities, the company claims, though Khosrowshahi has been hamstrung by the ongoing fallout from decisions taken by his predecessor and the firm's co-founder, Travis Kalanick.
Khosrowshahi, who joined the pioneer of ride-hailing services last August, has pledged to make a clean break with the company's past practices but has been hamstrung by the ongoing fallout from decisions taken by his predecessor and co-founder, Travis Kalanick.
White House officials felt hamstrung by the fact that they passed Obamacare with no Republican votes, which made it easier for the party to pile on — they didn't have to worry about putting a colleague who supported the law in an awkward spot.
But if there's a company that can browbeat us all into loving a new macOS that's more in line with iOS and features hamstrung apps not as capable or as quick as their predecessors (on machines slower than anything with Windows on it), it's Apple.
"It's clear that this Administration, hamstrung by federal rulings that have prevented the mass deportation of DACA recipients, is now actively weaponizing the Department of Housing and Urban Development to carry out its bigoted anti-immigrant agenda," said Menendez in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
The entire cookbook is at war with itself, oscillating jarringly between the earnest stories behind family recipes and half-hearted branding; it's hamstrung, in both cases, by the baseline artificiality of the sports personalities that contributed and the limits of the Celebrity Posse Cookbook form.
Call it simplistic, but I suspect similar reasons lie behind Google's decision to yank YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show: it's another example of a direct competitor to a Google product (Google Home, in that case) being hamstrung by the absence of a YouTube app.
The fundraising haul is a silver lining on what otherwise was a difficult month for Clinton, where questions about her exclusive use of a private email server as secretary of state and questions about pay-to-play at the Clinton Foundation hamstrung her campaign.
At a time that requires a renewed sense of cohesion and purpose on both sides of the Atlantic, they're hamstrung by ongoing Brexit dramas, transatlantic trade tensions, disagreements on issues ranging from Iran to Russian gas, and a rising tide of nationalist and populist forces.
Eight of the 12 members still need to be appointed to Nigeria's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) - so there is unlikely to be a meeting next week - while Kenya remains hamstrung by a bill limiting commercial lending rates to 4 percentage points above its official rate.
CAIRO/ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Egypt's prime minister said on Tuesday that authorities would allow wheat shipments with up to 0.05 percent levels of ergot fungus, potentially ending a months-long conflict over import requirements that has hamstrung the country's ability to buy from abroad.
Mr. Joko himself, despite being president, is only a rank-and-file member of his party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or P.D.I.P., and has at times been hamstrung in carrying out policies and appointing senior officials because of opposition from party leaders.
Had the Supreme Court not hamstrung the federal government from protecting its citizens from massive violence, effectively nullifying the transformative possibilities of the Civil War, the white supremacist hold on national politics might have given way to a far more robust vision of democratic pluralism.
Read more: A former senior FBI official said agents are hamstrung in fighting white nationalist violence because they're 'wary of pissing off the guy in the Oval Office'Several conspiracy theories — and the outlets that publish them — have even found their way into the White House.
Operators are striding towards a future with data speeds up to 250 times faster than 53G networks and billions of connected devices to help run homes, offices, factories and cities - creating a seemingly limitless opportunity for an industry now hamstrung by the smartphone market's saturation.
The Portland Trail Blazers were a bit hamstrung by the team's unexpected success last season and, instead of committing to their rebuilding efforts, they matched the Nets' four-year, $75 million offer to Allen Crabbe, giving them an obscenely expensive backcourt in Damian Lillard, C .
As intriguing as it is to watch a movie about someone who is gifted yet hamstrung by his own mind, you do wonder whether — after Roman and Lou — Mr. Gilroy is capable of writing protagonists who aren't so affectedly at odds with their environments.
The raid in Houston is the latest sign of crisis in the church, with prosecutors growing more aggressive in their search for cover-ups of abuse, and the bishops — led by Cardinal DiNardo — hamstrung by the Vatican in their efforts to carry out reforms.
CALGARY, Alberta/WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canadian oil producers are raking in the highest revenues in five years thanks to strong global oil prices and Alberta's production cuts, but government intervention has hamstrung their spending abilities, encouraging many to buy back shares and pay down debt.
For example, as the title of her book suggests, Boustan is interested in whether black economic progress in the North was hamstrung by labor competition between Southern-born and Northern-born black workers (a fear voiced as early as 1923 by W.E.B. Du Bois).
The best answers to each are rooted in creativity; the worst are hamstrung by wishful, delusional, or even cynical thinking, in particular the sort that relieves our societal institutions (and corporate overlords) of any responsibility for our collective fate—the onus is on you!
"What makes things particularly of concern to me right now is that Trump has blocked the appointment of new judges at the WTO, and the WTO appellate body is getting hamstrung," Stiglitz continued, referring to the organization's seven-member panel that overlooks international disputes.
Mr. de Blasio's efforts to aid Mr. Singh became a major focus of a federal investigation into the mayor's fund-raising and a range of actions he took on behalf of donors — an inquiry that overshadowed and hamstrung his administration for more than a year.
The commission, which included scientists, law enforcement officers and judges, was often hamstrung by internal disagreement, but still managed to produce important certification requirements and reporting standards that would have made future lab scandals harder to pull off and easier to detect or prevent.
"Tesla's deliveries to real, actual people are still rising at a triple-digit pace, despite being hamstrung by import duties, a flagging auto market, and a historical inability to tap EV subsidies," Piper Jaffray analyst Alexander Potter wrote in a note to investors on Thursday.
Burns is good at so many things — interviewing primary sources, editing massive amounts of footage into surprisingly propulsive films, doing lots and lots and lots of research — that it's too bad he's been hamstrung by his own success in a way documentary filmmakers rarely are.
Thankfully, the really eye-catching feature of the new Dell—the white and rose gold color options are available in every new Dell XPS 13, including the $1000 one—though that $1000 version is also hamstrung by having just a 128GB SSD and only 4GB of RAM.
Imagine a world where we're not pressured to compromise on long-term investment, hesitant to disrupt ourselves, or hamstrung in the way we can reward and acquire new talent due to stock price concerns, but consistently investing intelligently toward the realization of our mission and vision.
A common complaint among Sonic fans — stick with me, friends — is that the series, over the decades following the original trilogy, has been hamstrung by a ballooning cast of supporting characters: Shadow the Hedgehog, Jet the Hawk, Espio the Chameleon, Beam the Rabbit, and Vector the Crocodile.
Some Chinese officials had complained that preparations for the trip were hamstrung by the White House's failure to coordinate the competing interests of the departments of State, Commerce, and the Treasury and the Office of the US Trade Representative, a senior Asian diplomat told BuzzFeed News.
Sure, those people sound awful, just as their alter egos sound brave—those millennials hamstrung by inequality and flat wages, handed a bag of shit by their personal-responsibility-preaching elders and left to grow up in the wake of 9/11 and the global financial crisis.
Its investigations bolstered a growing pacifist movement, badly retarded U.S. military preparedness, and led to the passage of the three Neutrality Acts that hamstrung the country's ability to confront the Axis and helped doom the Spanish Republic, unable to acquire enough arms to hold off international fascism.
Trump and Putin share the same worldview: that the world should be governed by a few wealthy men who should not be hamstrung by regulations or human rights because they know better than the rest of us how to manage the economy, the government, and, therefore, society.
This, even though Clinton was impeached, Obama was hamstrung by an obdurate Republican minority, and Democrats ultimately saw the electoral devastation of their entire party down ballot at the hands of a political movement that believes very strongly in one liberal America and one conservative America.
It has two 4K displays: a 15.6-inch, 16:9 OLED touchscreen where you'll do most of your work and play, and a 14-inch, 32:9 IPS touchscreen that's reminiscent of the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar (but far bigger and not as hamstrung in capability).
But Bliss also acknowledged a series of hurdles, beyond the Democratic voter enthusiasm, House Republicans will have to overcome, from the significant candidate fundraising advantage Democrats have shown in the last quarter to the large number of House Republican retirements that have hamstrung the group's efforts.
Trump was in New York to promote her Women's Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) initiative and to practice diplomacy on the world stage, a role she's embraced with mixed reviews, hamstrung by her father's mercurial tendencies and policies that are sometimes at odds with her objectives.
New York (CNN)The Trump Organization, already hamstrung by self-imposed restrictions and costly legal bills, could face new headaches if Democrats take control of either the House or Senate this fall and demand the company divulge closely guarded information, including reports on profits and operations.
As Tesla floundered early in the year, hamstrung by the production hell of its Model 20193, Musk's company SpaceX made history when it completed a test of its Falcon Heavy rocket, the heavy-lift orbital vehicle that can carry twice the weight of its closest competition in active operation.
Despite the divergence in monetary policy expectations, with the Fed still seen on track to hike rates this year and the Bank of Japan expected to take additional stimulus steps, the yen remained hamstrung by uncertainty over whether the BOJ will cut interest rates deeper into negative territory.
Piech's withdrawal may also raise investor hopes that the group can finally overcome what many analysts have dubbed a dysfunctional structure, which has seen the group hamstrung by the carmaker's powerful labor unions and the state of Lower Saxony, which holds a blocking minority with its 20 percent stake.
It can handle many browser tabs without needing to kick them out of memory (unlike Samsung's TabPro S, which is hamstrung by its 4GB of RAM), can juggle multitasking between apps with ease, and can even push an external display (via the HDMI port on the MateDock) without struggling.
From battling back bills that would have hamstrung online marketplaces like hometown heroes Etsy, or marshaling the community to speak out against national policies that effect the technology industry, Tech:NYC has taken a leading role in policy discussions in city hall, the Albany statehouse, and as a beacon nationally.
Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell explained that officials felt hamstrung by the recent decision that U.S. officials could not require Microsoft to turn over emails stored in Ireland using the same process as emails stored in the U.S.  Caldwell provided no other details on a potential legislative fix.
From among them, Sony's Xperia series has been perpetually hamstrung by some fatal flaw or another (and also completely absent from the US market), HTC's flagships have been expensive but imperfect, LG's best has been plastic for far too long, and Huawei's ascent hasn't yet reached full global scale.
Efforts to conclude a ballyhooed FTA with the United Kingdom, meanwhile, are hamstrung by the fact that the country cannot negotiate any trade deals until it concludes its exit from the EU. Even if willing negotiating partners existed, however, Trump's insistence on bilateral deals would still be ill-advised.
The bank, 55.6 percent owned by state fund Investment Corp of Dubai, has benefited from an improvement in the performance of its assets in recent quarters as Dubai government-linked companies have made progress in resolving debt troubles which hamstrung the emirate at the turn of the decade.
"He worries about his ability to negotiate with various entities and how much he's hamstrung by this," the official said, adding the President feels hobbled by the investigation and he and the White House believe he will be in a stronger position politically and internationally once the investigation concludes.
While some argue that prices keep rising because the government subsidizes health care through programs like Medicare and college educations through student loans and grants, you see the same basic pattern with services like summer camps, veterinary services, and Broadway shows that aren't hamstrung by government regulations and subsidies.
The first judge in the case had forbidden their use because prosecutors limited the evidence defense lawyers could have access to and prohibited them from trying to interview most former black-site workers — restrictions that he found hamstrung defense investigations and the detainees' right to a fair trial.
While his admirers praised his courtly, charismatic and measured approach, Mr. Annan was hamstrung by the inherent flaw of his position as what many people called a "secular pope" — a figure of moral authority bereft of the means other than persuasion to enforce the high standards he articulated.
But, even if he's voted out -- or even if he serves for eight years but claims to have been hamstrung for much of it by a purported "witch hunt" led by special counsel Robert Mueller -- Trump's supporters will feel that they and he never really got a fair shake.
"Leaving the role acting for such an insanely long time has hamstrung the ability of the Pentagon to operate in a normal manner, not just in time of crisis, but also on long-term plans," said Peter W. Singer, a defense expert and senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Although he had said he was as hamstrung by the law as the prosecutors were, the Williams siblings argued Corey should have delayed the hearing until Lauren was notified and rejected Schneider's plea deal on the basis that the suspended sentence and credit for his house arrest were too lenient.
The USPS is hamstrung by the very large financial burden placed on them from the unreasonable requirement implemented in the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act that they pre-fund – the requirement is that they pre-fund retiree health benefits to the tune of more than $5.5 billion each year.
Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell explained that officials felt hamstrung by the recent Microsoft decision that U.S. officials could not require the company to turn over emails stored in Ireland using the same process as emails stored in the U.S. Internet-based companies routinely place data centers in other countries.
Read more: A former senior FBI official said agents are hamstrung in fighting white nationalist violence because they're 'wary of pissing off the guy in the Oval Office'in LawfareThat said, there are significant concerns among civil-liberties advocates that broadening the federal government's powers could test the limits of free speech.
But even as the case became a touchstone, the investigation of Officer Pantaleo was hamstrung by delays, largely stemming from a dispute between federal agents and prosecutors assigned to the United States attorney's office in Brooklyn and those who worked for the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department in Washington.
While Pelosi cited security concerns due to "critical departments hamstrung by furloughs" as her reason for pushing for the delay, both McCarthy and Scalise said they believe the move was purely political after the Department of Homeland Security secretary said Secret Service is ready and able to secure the event.
Kubrick and Clarke used that lack of agency to amplify the mythological undercurrents of 2001, drawing an analogy between protagonist Dave Bowman and his crew, who are inexorably at the mercy of alien and robotic intelligences, to Odysseus and his crew, who are hamstrung by the unpredictable whims of the gods.
No matter the outcome of the elections, his plans have been hamstrung by the indifference to the European project of citizens in France and beyond, the reticence of Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, and a newly empowered front of populist leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who mock him.
"Oslo" was produced by a nonprofit, Lincoln Center Theater, which, hamstrung by finances or strategy, has kept a low profile during the Tony season, while "A Doll's House, Part 2," produced by the Broadway bigwig Scott Rudin, has saturated print and broadcast outlets with attention-getting advertisements and multiple media appearances.
An agent working on an MS-13 investigation that has gone on for more than three years and resulted in 23 gang indictments for racketeering, murder and money laundering has been hamstrung by his inability to pay for an interpreter who can communicate with his Spanish-speaking informants, the report said.
If they start feeling the pressure to follow the will of the people, we may start seeing some changes on the federal level, which ultimately is where things need to change for workplace rights as well as a lot of other aspects of this that are still hamstrung by federal policy.
Simultaneously a romance, a tragedy, and a rags-to-riches story with a magnetic young woman at its center, A Star is Born follows an essential arc that has, thus far, stayed the same: An aging male celebrity, hamstrung by his addictions, meets a talented, younger woman with whom he is instantly smitten.
So either we were disadvantaged versus Apple because they had the biggest distribution footprint of Apple devices, which in many cases we weren't compatible with or were but in some highly hamstrung way, or we were challenged to compete on distribution versus Netflix because we had this opposite problem of being Amazon.
Outside of political appointee positions, Trump's administration is going to find that their ability to bring on loyal friends is hamstrung by the civil service laws, which specifically were designed to avoid political cronyism and which removes political officials from at least the initial vetting of potential candidates for open government positions.
But historically, Zipcar has been hamstrung by a couple annoying rules: one, you always have to return your car to the exact same spot you picked it up; two, it can be hard to extend the length of your reservation if you have to, because others have booked your car right after you.
As someone who has managed the back end of trading systems, McCarthy said he is increasingly uneasy about the level of index investing and has begun to give speeches about the potential dangers of a market in which a growing number of managers are hamstrung by the requirement that they match their indexes.
ALBANY — For the second time in two weeks, New York State Department of Health officials sought to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for a contaminated water crisis in upstate New York, saying on Wednesday that they were confused and hamstrung by changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOA.
The EIA figures on Wednesday showed U.S. oil production at 9.79 million barrels a day, while exports reached 1.86 million barrels a day, near a recent all-time high "Expectations of higher U.S. shale production into January hamstrung crude's price increase, " said Jeffrey Halley, senior market analyst at futures brokerage Oanda in Singapore.
Current and former agents and officials at the agency lament its political handicaps — as the broker of the country's gun regulations, it has been hamstrung by the powerful gun lobby — and the A.T.F.'s tendency to work in the shadow of bigger agencies like the F.B.I., which has its own bomb division.
And, if he truly wants to reform the FDA to put greater focus on the need of patients for new and innovative medical products, his new commissioner absolutely must be a strong leader who can reverse the culture of fear and inertia that has hamstrung the delivery of innovative medical products to patients.
There are the innovations that pour out of Silicon Valley companies and elite universities, the flexibility of a work force relatively unconstrained by union rules, the dynamism of entrepreneurs less hamstrung by an oversize welfare state and of a more mobile population willing to move to where the cutting-edge jobs are mushrooming.
The visit will also come as the Trump administration attempts to craft a blueprint for Middle East peace led by Trump senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, a steep prospect buoyed by the close relationship between Trump and the prime minister but potentially hamstrung by recent political troubles for Netanyahu.
Mr. Trump has yet to renominate individuals to fill four vacancies at the Sentencing Commission, which currently lacks a quorum and is hamstrung from moving forward on technical components of the First Step Act that could give judges greater guidance on "compassionate release" and other provisions that would shorten some prison sentences.
Google's efforts in the area with ARCore are just getting started with the first batch of 1.0 apps coming online now, but Google will always be hamstrung by the platform fragmentation that forces developers to target a huge array of possible software and hardware limitations that their apps and games will run up against.
Read more: A former senior FBI official said agents were hamstrung in fighting white nationalist violence because they're 'wary of pissing off the guy in the Oval Office'The two mass shootings shifted the national spotlight back to the rising threat posed by white supremacist violence in the US.The FBI has 850 open domestic terrorism investigations.
But over the last 18 months, even when the Problem Solvers Caucus came up with bipartisan ideas on health care, infrastructure, immigration and border security, and gun safety, the current power structure of the House, with the Speaker hamstrung by the far right, prevented any of those proposals from being brought to a vote.
The revelation jarred a case that had already been hamstrung by a dearth of hard evidence, suffused with drama and dogged by delays, as investigators in St. Lawrence County have tried to solve the murder of Garrett Phillips, a sixth-grader who was attacked in his mother's apartment in Potsdam, N.Y., in October 2011.
Along the way, the show takes a page from Orange is the New Black, diving into the lives of her ringmates to tell compelling short stories about women from all walks of life, and the ways they are hamstrung by the men in charge no matter how much success they might find for themselves.
The original slate of NBA Jam rosters was hamstrung both by licensing issues—ctrl-f Michael Jordan, for instance—and the inherent limitations of a two-on-two-basketball-as-less-viscera-intensive- Mortal-Kombat approach, but it is difficult to pull together viable two-on-two pairs from NBA teams even without those restrictions.
For the FCC itself, the new rules give further justification for a closely related proceeding, which would "reclassify" many over-the-top services as traditional pay TV companies, subject to a crazy quilt of FCC and local rules limiting licensing, rebroadcast, localization and other anti-competitive features that have hamstrung regulated providers for decades.
While it seems the term has been around baseball forever, the concept of "moneyball" — coined to describe the Oakland Athletics' approach to building competitive teams despite being hamstrung with one of the sport's lowest payrolls — entered the popular lexicon with Michael Lewis' Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, in 20073 (followed by the film).
Only through trial-and-error does it become clear what you should be prioritizing, and it's galling to get 10 hours into a campaign that you hamstrung at the beginning by wasting all of your supplies on single-use items like grenades and medkits, rather than building up the infrastructure on board the Avenger, or training solid replacement soldiers.
Handling the sensitive matters that inevitably surface in such cases out of the news media glare satisfies her image-conscious clients, she said, while also pleasing their managers, lawyers and talent agents, all of whom prefer that their clients not be so hamstrung by legal proceedings and online gossip that they have trouble reporting to a film set.
Should Kim simply wait it out for a President Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden MORE rather than dealing with a Trump hamstrung by his foes?
Mitch McConnell and his supporters should think about it: If confronting senators in elevators or airports seems outrageous, perhaps he should focus more on the outrage that people are feeling -- and the mounting sense of frustration that Republicans have so hamstrung this process, and the progress of our nation in general, that protest is the only avenue left.
Michael Kimelman, who was convicted of insider trading in 2011 along with two co-defendants, argues in a new book, "Confessions of a Wall Street Insider: A Cautionary Tale of Rats, Feds, and Banksters," that he was innocent, but that his defense was hamstrung by being tried with others who more clearly engaged in illicit trading on confidential information.
We still don't know how much the 5G Mod will cost, or quite how fast a connection you'll be able to get in Verizon's first 5G-equipped cities at launch — our early hands-on was hamstrung — but it's worth noting that Motorola's now only advertising a conservative estimate of 300 to 500Mbps, compared to the 5Gbps it's theoretically capable of.
It Won't Happen Sarah Jeong points out that Mark Zuckerberg's calls for the regulation of harmful content will be hamstrung, in America, by the First Amendment — but not in Europe: So, while the American government has its hands tied behind its back by the Constitution, the French, the Germans and the Irish will set their own bar for online speech.
These Electron apps kind of suck on Chrome OS. I'm sure they'll improve over time — especially once they get GPU support, which I'm told is in the works — but they'll always be hamstrung by the sandbox Google has made to keep Linux applications separate and safe from the rest of the OS. I don't want to come across as a complainer here.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) says President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE is likely to win reelection in 2020 because Democrats will be hamstrung by the deep fissures between the liberal and moderate wings of the party.
Successive attempts at negotiations with the Taliban have failed for an array of reasons: the Taliban's enduring strength on the battlefield and support among some of the rural population; policy disputes within the Taliban that have hamstrung their negotiators; a weak Afghan government split over the wisdom of negotiations; and Pakistan's duplicitous role in nominally supporting negotiations while sustaining support for the Taliban.
Just two years removed from the wild (some would say reckless) spending in the summer of 2016 after the salary cap jumped a record $24 million because of an influx of television revenue, here's an indication of how hamstrung many teams feel by luxury-tax concerns and the like: There were no trades during this year's draft involving current N.B.A. players.
The failure to achieve even that cosmetic gesture offers a telling indication of how Hamas is hamstrung by its own deep-seated ambivalence toward reform, said Nathan Thrall, an analyst with the International Crisis Group who is based in Jerusalem, who noted that the original charter has long been a source of quiet embarrassment among more reform-minded Hamas leaders.
It's a crisis because the only people who might help her come into knowledge of her body and what it can do, hate her (like her classmates) or are hamstrung by propriety (like her mother) or can't see past the desire to possess the young, lithe body (like the older man who may have sexually abused one of the characters she inhabits).
The debate over individual rights versus the common good hamstrung progress in this arena for far longer than was sensible or even reasonable, but, as Blum says, when the 1906 Food and Drug law did finally pass, it established for the first time that the U.S. government considered protecting consumers part of its obligation, a precedent that stands as a landscape-altering moment in this country.
Corruption, attrition, illiteracy, and increasingly disruptive Taliban interference have left Afghanistan with a hamstrung military incapable of operating without the support of American military personnel — and that's a the US may not be able to fix, no matter how much money, time, and military aid the Pentagon continues to pour into the country, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report from Sept. 2017.
Asked whether Jolla has seen any positive impacts on its business following the Commission's antitrust decision, Pienimäki responds positively, recounting how — "one or two weeks after the ruling" — Jolla received an inbound enquiry from a company in France that had felt hamstrung by Google requiring its services to be bundled with Android but was now hoping "to realize a project in a special sector".
It's a fairly different spot than a lot of fans were in after the first film of the prequels trilogy, The Phantom Menace: That movie took so much credibility from the filmmakers by being terrible, and hamstrung its bad characters with such insufferable dialogue, that it was hard to see the prequel trilogy ever recovering from such a disaster — and it never really did.
His request came after the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., and the upending of a Confederate statue at a courthouse in Durham, N.C. The commissioners said Wednesday that they believed they were hamstrung by a 2015 state law that prohibits the removal of memorials on public property except under rare circumstances, such as preserving a historical marker from destruction, or for major construction projects.
That's because Obama has hamstrung our intelligence-gathering communities by limiting NSA surveillance: The bigger problem we have is our inability to find out where these places are, because we've crippled our intelligence programs, both through unauthorized disclosures by a traitor, in Edward Snowden, or by some of the things this president has put in place with the support even of some from my own party to diminish our intelligence capabilities.
More than two years after the impact of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's recovery remains hamstrung by unconscionable, inexcusable delays in the disbursement of billions of dollars in disaster aid approved by Congress and signed into law by President TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden allies see boost in Tuesday's election results Sanders vows to end Trump's policies as he unveils immigration proposal Republicans warn election results are 'wake-up call' for Trump MORE.
And while we're optimistic that Qualcomm's chip might prove to run basic Windows and web browsing tasks faster — recent iPad Pros prove that ARM processors are no slouch, and this one's clocked at up to 3GHz with 2 teraflops of graphical oomph — we're still talking about a 7-watt ARM processor compared to a selection of dual- and quad-core 103-watt CPUs from Intel that won't be hamstrung by any incompatibility issues.

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