1.   Bankers argue that their hands are tied by the Fed.

2.   Like the male her hands were tied at the wrists as they lay on her stomach.

3.   One of them tied her hands behind her back.

4.   The banks, in turn, claimed that their hands were tied by federal regulators who discouraged them from lending.

5.   The police and magistrates have had their hands tied by the interference of sentimentalists and do-gooders.

6.   The bank claims its hands are tied by federal regulators.

7.   He tied her hands behind her back.

8.   Then I began to realize that my hands were tied behind my back and my legs were also secured to something.

9.   Joan Fox, head of patient services at the Memorial hospital, said the health authority had considered extra specialists but its hands were tied.

10.   He had been hooded, his hands tied behind his back, and then shot in the head.