The hamstringing was suggested by a Lowlife holy woman, of all people.

Therefore even with current medical science a victim of complete hamstringing is almost certain to die, due to severe bleeding.

For this reason hamstringing has been used as a form of torture, often resulting in the death of the victim.

Mr. Hastert's hamstringing of the panel may come back to haunt him.

On the other hand, the unintended consequences of the higher prices may be the eventual hamstringing of the big publishers.

The film claimed that this is due to the lack of judicial powers of the Border Patrol and the effective hamstringing of the agency by the federal government.

Those who had gone morose and silent with the hamstringing of the Gaul now erupted in an orgy of screaming and raving, of backslapping and gloating.

Chief Inspector Thomas has become an expert on horse abuse, reading up on everything from the "hamstringing" done by villagers to vex local squires 200 years ago to practices among Patagonian tribes.

There is nothing illegal about such tactics, and I'm not suggesting that there should be, but once again it shows that there is little hamstringing (other than own goals) that they suffer from.

In America, the most common public comment about this war was about political hamstringing of military power, psychologically akin, she thought, to the "stab-in-the-back" explanation by German militarists of their World War I defeat.