(n.) A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) To apply handcuffs to; to manacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) History will judge you and you must at last answer your own conscience.” About 40 of the demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits, more than half of whom also donned black hoods over their faces, and one held up his wrists in handcuffs.
(2) · Golden Handcuffs [which is to be published in November] is about two graduates, Abby and Mike, who find themselves working with, for and against each other in a large City firm during their first year out of university.
(3) The handcuffs were taken off a few hours before he died the following day.
(4) The prime minister is clearly not keen to go to an election on his climate credentials, and now he’s just digging himself in deeper.” The acting Greens leader, Scott Ludlam, told reporters in Perth that Abbott was trying to “handcuff” Australia to the coal and gas industry.
(5) Photograph: Courtesy of the family It’s been over a month since Fátima Avelica watched Ice agents, wearing uniforms stamped “POLICE”, handcuff and arrest her father, and the pain of that moment still lingers.
(6) Breivik told the court he planned to handcuff her, before "decapitating" her using a bayonet on his rifle and then filming the execution on an iPhone.
(7) They may be asked to undertake "golden handcuffs" agreements to stick with a challenge to the end or pay a fee of up to £500 for every six months of legal advice they have received.
(8) Mayor Betsy Hodges made the request following a day of demonstrations by activists who say that Clark, 24, was unarmed and in handcuffs when a police officer shot him in the head.
(9) Many used the hashtag to share their disgust about Ahmed’s treatment: Christopher Emdin (@chrisemdin) We cannot say we want more STEM graduates and then simultaneously arrest STEM enthusiasts #IAmAhmed #IStandWithAhmed September 16, 2015 Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) The look on this kid's face while he's wearing a NASA shirt and handcuffs should haunt all of us.
(10) He handcuffs me and then helps me into the van where I join several other arrestees from the protest.
(11) Hopefully we should get a chance to speak to her soon.” Prison guards said earlier that the four backpackers had not returned to the jail after the hearing, and did not have to wear handcuffs.
(12) At a pre-trial hearing they said an independent witness reported seeing Harwood knee a man in the kidney as he lay on the ground in handcuffs.
(13) The family has been told that officers used CS gas and pepper spray, and hit Bayoh with batons, as they restrained him with handcuffs and leg restraints on the pavement where he then lost consciousness, dying before he arrived at hospital.
(14) Moments after the committee chairman, John Whittingdale MP, suspended the meeting, a man wearing a checked shirt was seen outside the meeting room at the House of Commons in handcuffs.
(15) However, in the virtual world, e-readers have digital handcuffs to stop you from giving, lending or selling a book, as well as licences forbidding that.
(16) "This includes loss of liberty for 11 years 43 days and all the other hardships which arose from it including damage to my reputation through being branded a murderer and effects on my family life including divorce, separation from my son throughout most of his childhood, being in custody during the deaths of my daughter and my father and having to attend their funerals in handcuffs and effects on my relationships with other family members."
(17) He had used a level of force that was "unnecessary and disproportionate to the circumstances" and caused further distress to Farmer by detaining him in handcuffs despite it being obvious he had the wrong man, it added.
(18) A performance of a song inspired by the protests, Watani Ana , (“I am my homeland” in Arabic) had Assad forces knocking down the door of Jandali’s parents’ home in Homs: “Handcuff my father, break my mother’s teeth and beat them both.
(19) Microsoft and Apple systems implement digital handcuffs – features specifically designed to restrict users.
(20) "The choice on the ballot paper is effectively between a box for yes and a box for handcuffs."
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".