In the U.S., the choicest smart phones usually gettiedup for months in exclusive carrier deals as operators seek to lure new subscribers to their services.
So for example, efforts to rebuild schools and hospitals, to repair damaged roads and bridges, toget people back to their homes -- they were tiedup for years in a tangle of disagreements and byzantine rules.
One of the Tea Party movement's huge strengths was its insistence that to have maximum appeal, economic conservatism shouldn't gettiedup in obsessions about sexual behaviour.