(n.) A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.
(n.) Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
Example Sentences:
(1) But last week Labour's justice spokesman, Sadiq Khan, accused Clarke of making "inaccurate and misleading" claims about the government's secret courts bill and warned that the judge's discretion would be fettered to such an extent that it would be "a judicial decision in name only".
(2) The open margins of frog COS disks have recently been shown to possess a distinctive lattice of membrane-associated components (Fetter and Corless: Invest.
(3) Every day, our life is fettered by dozens of big and small laws.
(4) Linear dependence was found between the height of children and average height of both parents in the group of 100 619 children and parents (Fetter et al.
(5) The functional differentiation of restrictive disorders between forms with lung retraction(fibrosis, scarring) and with lung fettering (pleural thickening) is important for adequate correction of complications during the intensive care phase.
(6) Freud retraces the path of our problematic symptoms to a fund of repressed sexual and libidinal energy, whose fettered strivings results in overt neuroses.
(7) These structural features of COS open margins suggest several revisions of our earlier model of disk morphogenesis (Corless and Fetter: J. Comp.
(8) Clarke signalled that he would sweep away aspects of the statutory sentencing framework in England and Wales that "unhelpfully fetters" the ability of judges to make the sentence fit the crime.
(9) "[We] strongly urge that a way is found to limit the use of superinjunctions as far as is possible and to make clear that they are not intended to fetter the fundamental rights of the press to report the proceedings of parliament."
(10) DRGs were used as the basis for Medicare's prospective payment system, but John D. Thompson and Robert B. Fetter, winners of the 1992 Baxter Foundation Prize for Health Services Research, say things haven't turned out exactly as they'd expected.
(11) "If the media is fettered then it is in effect saying that all of us as individuals are having their own right to freedom of expression interfered with.
(12) So if they share with a rugby league club, we can’t be fettered as to when those clubs can play.
(13) They fettered his mouth with chains, And tied his hands to the rock of the dead.
(14) It is proposed that Alcoholics Anonymous's continued domination of the alcoholism treatment field has fettered innovation, precluded early intervention and limited treatment strategies.
(15) In addition to a lipid bilayer component (Corless, Fetter, and Costello: J. Comp.
(16) Syrian refugees in Scotland: cold weather but warm welcome Read more In a statement before the Holyrood members’ debate, the coalition, led by the Scottish Refugee Council, argues: “Such a scrutiny and accountability gap is serious in inter-parliamentary terms as these provisions impact on and may even alter the legislative competence of the Scottish parliament as well as in terms of fettering the capability of that parliament to safeguard the integrity of its housing and eviction law; its duties on local authorities to safeguard the wellbeing of children; and the obligations it has placed on councils in Scotland that are inclusive of unaccompanied migrant children who are classed as looked after as well as care leavers as they transition into adulthood.” The House of Lords constitution committee criticised the bill on similar grounds in early January.
(17) However, ministers do want to see a measure they regard as an unnecessary fetter on judicial discretion swept away.
(18) A quote from an anonymous author painted above the door lintel by owner Mike Beaumon could be the micropub motto: “Beer is the drink of men who think, and feel no fear or fetter, who do not drink to senseless sink, but drink to feel better.” • thefourcandles.co.uk , open Mon-Thurs and Sun 5pm-10.30pm, Fri and 5pm-11.30pm, lunchtimes Sat and Sun noon-3.30pm The Thirty-Nine Steps Alehouse, Broadstairs A few streets back from the Broadstairs seafront, this pub in a former pet shop was opened by local couple Kevin and Nicola Harding.
(19) "We have lots of rules that fetter movement," he told the Telegraph.
(20) Democratic politicians adapt public service priorities all the time – not always for the best, but fettered only by responsiveness to voters, not to badly drawn fixed contracts.
Manacle
Definition:
(n.) A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) To put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands; to shackle; to confine; to restrain from the use of the limbs or natural powers.
Example Sentences:
(1) • The Film weekly podcast saw host Jason Solomons talk to ... Bruce Robinson (director of Withnail & I) about his new film The Rum Diary ... Errol Morris (director of The Thin Blue Line) about Tabloid - his documentary on Joyce McKinney and the "Manacled Morman" case ... and Guardian film critic Xan Brooks (director of people to decent movies), who helped Jason review Arthur Christmas , The Awakening and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights .
(2) Nyingi, who was detained for about nine years , beaten unconscious and bears the marks from leg manacles, whipping and caning, said: "For me … I just wanted the truth to be out.
(3) He was beaten unconscious and still bears the marks from leg manacles, whipping and caning.
(4) By humanism I mean first of all attempting to dissolve Blake's "mind-forg'd manacles" so as to be able to use one's mind historically and rationally for the purposes of reflective understanding.
(5) Too often he has seemed manacled when playing under Wilmots, whose decision to give him the captaincy was far from popular.
(6) When the claimants gave evidence at the high court in London last year, Wambugu Wa Nyingi told how he was detained on Christmas Eve 1952 and held for nine years, much of the time in manacles.
(7) Confronting it means shaking off the manacles it has imposed on our minds.
(8) There are clear analogies with old descriptions of the effects of torture by stretching from manacles or gauntlets or by the rack.
(9) One of the high-court claimants, Wambugu Wa Nyingi described how he was detained in 1952 , held for nine years, much of the time in manacles, and beaten unconscious during a particularly notorious massacre at a camp at Hola in which 11 men died.
(10) The documents detailed the way suspected insurgents had been beaten to death, burned alive, castrated – like two of the high court claimants – and kept in manacles for years.
(11) Robert Holcomb, one of those interviewed in Bloods, Terry's oral history of the war by black veterans, describes how, after being hounded by the FBI, he was "sworn into the army in manacles".