(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.
Setter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.
(n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.
(n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.
(n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.
(n.) An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.
(n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.
(v. t.) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coactivation of the serotonin-containing cells and command fibers, or inhibition of the serotonin-containing cells while activating command fibers, however, shows that the cells act as "gain-setters," modulating the interaction between command inputs and motoneuron outputs.
(2) In the Red setter an ovarian cortex had developed in mosaic gonads with 8 and 10% of Y-bearing cells.
(3) Mark Carney is a jet-setter who worked for the global Goldman Sachs.
(4) Using brains of English setter dogs afflicted with a form of this disorder, the autofluorescent storage granules have been isolated and subjected to extraction with chloroform-methanol.
(5) We had studied cerebrospinal fluid monoamine metabolite concentrations and glucose metabolism in 58 violent offenders and impulsive fire setters in the early 1980s.
(6) These included an investigation of egg handling techniques from nest box to hatcher; the adoption by the hatchery of plastic setter trays; an improvement to incubator environment; an improvement in the overall hatchery hygiene programme and the introduction of a regular monitoring programme based on the examination of hatchery fluff.
(7) The purpose of this special communication is to emphasize the importance of balancing the physical therapy director's dual roles as fiscal manager and professional value setter.
(8) Ozone and formaldehyde were evaluated as disinfectants in a prototype laboratory setter against microorganisms that are naturally present on fertile, freshly laid, broiler hatching eggs.
(9) Two male English Setters were noticed to be breathing rapidly, hyperexcitable, and atactic after roaming a rural area for 2 hours.
(10) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
(11) Using light microscopic immunocytochemistry, the localization of S-antigen was studied in the retinas of normal dogs and Irish setters affected with rod-cone dysplasia, a hereditary retinal degeneration characterized by abnormal cGMP metabolism and arrested outer segment differentiation.
(12) Test setters retain influence over what counts, and there is no adjusting for test-takers' inclination to apply themselves – or not.
(13) A 5-month-old female Gordon Setter was examined because of a soft, fluctuant, subcutaneous swelling in the right submandibular region.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Andrew Sentance ANDREW SENTANCE Former Bank of England interest-rate setter Is Brexit now more likely?
(15) The etiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of the Irish setter leucocyte adhesion deficiency were similar to that of the leucocyte adhesion deficiency in humans.
(16) The FTSE fell after the Bank decision was announced and it closed down 55 points, or 0.7%, at 7419.36. Business Today: sign up for a morning shot of financial news Read more Since the Brexit vote the Bank’s committee of rate-setters has been forced into a balancing act between keeping import-fuelled inflation in check and providing support to the economy as uncertainty and a squeeze on incomes bites.
(17) Seemingly, the seborrheic skin observed in these Cocker Spaniels and Irish Setters was associated with an altered rate of epidermal keratinization.
(18) Today's budget is being seen as a scene-setter for the election, with the electorate being presented with a choice between the Labour party and Liberal Democrats making massive cuts to public sector spending in a year, or the Conservative party making even bigger cuts to the public sector, but starting with a special George Osborne budget 50 days after they are elected to government.
(19) These findings document a wheat-sensitive enteropathy in Irish setter dogs and suggest that brush-border alkaline phosphatase is specifically susceptible to damage by wheat.
(20) Irish setters affected with rod-cone dysplasia type 1 (rcd1) were bred to Norwegian elkhounds affected with early retinal degeneration (erd).