Local officials say their hands are tied because the codes are written by the state.
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Administration spokesmen say their hands are tied by the sequestration law because it requires even, across-the-board cuts.
One Kansas City station has begun airing disclaimers before Mr Miller's ads explaining that its hands are tied.
His hands are tied because of the company's confidentiality agreement with Ivanhoe Mines.
Governments, always eager to deflect political pressure, may prefer to justify unpopular decisions by pretending that their hands are tied.
Or is it the position that, yes, their hands are tied by accounting rules and they had to take these write-downs immediately?
That means, according to my source, that Mr Hunt's hands are tied.
For one thing, Mr Obasanjo's hands are tied as those of his military predecessors were not by the need to pay some attention to human rights.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the Postal Service's hands are tied by congressional inaction on a bill that would allow it to reduce the payments.
My consultant would recommend it, as would the doctor we spoke to at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, but because of where we live his hands are tied.
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Next month, the government is throwing open the telecoms market, which should cut tariffs, but it argues that in the gas and electricity industries its hands are tied by long-term contracts.
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Add in privacy rights that limit when mental health professionals can notify parents about red flags, and many in academia often feel that their hands are tied beyond simply urging struggling students to visit campus counseling centers.
Now, two reasons that they cite: One is they say their bankers are telling them that the regulators are just looking over their shoulder too much and so the community banks feel that their hands are tied.
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One of the most frustrating aspects of these crimes for many local prosecutors and I am one of them is that even though we know the ripoffs are taking place, and we have the resources and expertise to investigate and prosecute, our hands are tied.
Google and other search engines, in this analogy, are like the newspaper editors whose hands are being tied by super injunctions.
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But that doesn't mean the administration's hands are completely tied.
However, the hospital trust responsible was unable to scrap the charges, he claimed, because "its hands are almost completely tied" by the contract it had signed to receive funding under a private finance initiative (PFI) scheme.
His hands are in any case tied by the written coalition agreement between the parties, and by the fact that Labour has eight cabinet seats to the Lib Dems' two.
Probabilistically, a higher level of debt means we are at risk of having our hands tied when we may need to spend badly.
Amidst political crises, important development projects like contraception dissemination and reproductive health education are forgotten or sidelined by donors, leaving NGOs with fewer resources and hands tied.
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