(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.
Unfetter
Definition:
(v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Backed by the British government, it was controversial among many campaigners in the UK and Europe , because it was seen a template for how multinational businesses wish to erode national regulations in favour of a more unfettered market access.
(2) The Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California , venerates the late philosopher as a prophet of unfettered capitalism who showed America the way.
(3) In order to assess the general applicability of a scapulohumeral force couple model, and the functional significance of the differential development of the scapulohumeral musculature among primate species, we have undertaken a detailed study of shoulder muscle activity patterns in nonhuman primates employing telemetered electromyography, which permits examination of unfettered natural behaviors and locomotion.
(4) In 1995, the Electronic Frontier Foundation won a landmark case establishing that code was a form of protected expression under the First Amendment to the US constitution, and since then, the whole world has enjoyed relatively unfettered access to strong crypto.
(5) To people who have faith that the world can heal itself through the unfettered interaction of economically rational individuals, and that, if capitalism were allowed to operate freely, there would be no more slumps and bubbles because the invisible hand of the market would guide everything to its rightful price, the seasonal rush must seem like an orgy of blasphemy.
(6) Instead of allowing an unfettered choice of family doctor, the health secretary announced that next year three cities will have pilot schemes to allow patients to have more flexibility over registering with a GP close to their workplace or near their children's school.
(7) A generation of activists successfully defended Washington Square Park against Robert Moses ' plan for a cross-town highway, and Jane Jacobs ' The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), which Berman greatly admired, did much to end the unfettered power of planners, architects and their politician-enablers.
(8) Not everyone’s experience online is cathartic and unfettered.
(9) Since his glory march through the streets of Fiorito, Mendez has become a barra brava , a self-proclaimed soldier for his club and part of a well-organised and violent network of fans that now wields almost unfettered power over the multi-million-pound business of football in Argentina .
(10) The 70 recommendations include: Government inspectors will have "full and unfettered powers" to inspect police services.
(11) Resistance to reform is predicated on an evangelical belief that the market knows best and must remain unfettered.
(12) Welsh finance secretary Mark Drakeford similarly called for “unfettered access to the single market” for Wales.
(13) Those criminal government officials would continue to act in an unfettered way, above the law.
(14) The White House called for a ceasefire in the region , backed by Russia, Ukraine and separatist groups , to allow for unfettered access for a "full, credible and unimpeded international investigation as quickly as possible”.
(15) And if the executive is unfettered in determining what those rights are, because in the UK the executive largely controls the Commons, then there can never be effective protection.
(16) One gets invited to those meetings only if one blindly affirms the right of the US to do whatever it wants, and then devotes oneself to the pragmatic question of how that unfettered license can best be exploited to promote national interests.
(17) It found they were “highly sceptical” that unfettered access to the EU market would be replaced with a growth in trade with other parts of the world.
(18) Two years later, the production and arrangement entirely in Bush's hands, came her wholly unfettered mistress-piece: The Dreaming .
(19) A report by the US senate's narcotics control caucus in June said: "Congress has been virtually moribund while powerful Mexican drug trafficking organisations continue to gain unfettered access to military-style firearms coming from the United States".
(20) For 100 days, the killers did their work unfettered.