We have to break parents out of this straitjacket that the only ideas we can try at home are ones that come from shrinks or self help gurus or other family experts.

At the same time, rigid rules limiting deficit spending by regional governments could place the UK in the same fiscal straitjacket as the eurozone, where member states are prevented from borrowing in recessions. Fiscal policy would then become dangerously procyclical, aggravating business fluctuations.

I argued that the former embodied the obsolete straitjacket of central planning, while the latter was far more consistent with market based outcomes. A target perpetuates the image of the all powerful state directed Chinese growth machine a government that will essentially stop at nothing to hit a predetermined number.

All these rationales for CSR suggest that it should be left to each corporation to determine, just as PSR leaves altruism to each individual s conscience and sense of what needs supporting. The attempt by some NGOs and activists to impose a straitjacket on CSR, reflecting their priorities, is misguided and must be rejected.

Gorbachev s reforms not only liberated ordinary Russians from the straitjacket of Marxism Leninism, but also released the national aspirations of people who had been locked in the empire for centuries. Having seen the peoples of Central Europe free themselves from Soviet domination just two years before, the constituent nations of the USSR were beginning to seek the same freedom for themselves.

The regulation of the use of force by the Security Council seems not only unnecessary but dangerous because the creation of rules in addition to the provisions of the Charter, or rules interpreting these provisions, could end up working as a straitjacket that puts undue constraints on the Council's discretion to take action under Chapter VII of the Charter, leading to inaction.

The Israel Hezbollah war of 2006 reminded the Union, once again, that its strategic interests do not always coincide perfectly with those of the United States. Because the Bush administration took a hands off approach to the Israel Hezbollah war in south Lebanon, and given the military straitjacket the US finds itself in because of the Iraq war, the EU had to take the lead.