(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."
Shackle
Definition:
(n.) Stubble.
(n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.
(n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.
(n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
(n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.
(n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
(n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.
(v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
(v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
(v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
Example Sentences:
(1) They will demand that the shackles be taken off local authorities so they can tackle a homelessness crisis.
(2) Shackles were found in the cellar, and yesterday police found a trap door.
(3) Shackling and ‘a full strip search’ On the morning of 21 October 2013, LaTonia Wilson was pulling out of her mechanic’s garage with her husband, Atheris Mann; her eldest son, Jessie Patrick; and their two-year-old son Marquise.
(4) How Chicago police used pot to disappear young people at Homan Square Read more Davis, a Democrat who represents the neighborhood that includes the Homan Square site, had until Wednesday only said publicly that he would “strongly support” a federal inquiry into what 11 detainees – in strikingly similar detailed accounts provided to the Guardian – have described as extended interrogation without access to legal counsel or their families, often while shackled.
(5) On this evidence, the shackles, in place ever since that World Cup in France, finally appear to be off.
(6) It is modern slavery enforced not through shackles and whips, but by fiddled contracts, missing permits and paperwork and the Guardian has found it happening just down the road from the desert palace of Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Khalifa al-Thani.
(7) Mané, in particular, has become erratic, while Tadic has suffered from the fact that opponents have studied him after his sparkling start to the campaign and increased their efforts to shackle him, partially by curtailing the ability of Southampton’s flying full-backs to support him down the flanks.
(8) Military policy Victory on Sunday will boost attempts by Abe and his fellow conservatives to further loosen the political shackles on Japan’s self-defence forces – actually a highly trained, well-equipped army, navy and air force.
(9) The NHS has experienced numerous attempts to free staff from the shackles of unnecessary paperwork to allow more time for patient care.
(10) The blindfold, shackles, threats and beatings were just the white noise of his ordeal, he says.
(11) Second, its shackled to historicism, constantly looking to the past.
(12) We face the prospect of a week of party manifestos full of reckless promises unbelieved by electors yet shackling future chancellors.
(13) It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to,” he tweeted .
(14) I would love to see the selection criteria for that job.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest From a blindfolded boat ride to threats against his family members and hours shackled to Gitmo floors, Zuley’s interrogation of Mohamedou Ould Slahi shocked investigators.
(15) "He was not only able to break the shackles of bigotry and bias and hate, but he did it without internalising the battles he was fighting."
(16) In March, Gambian president Yahya Jammeh announced plans to throw off the shackles of the colonial past by discontinuing the use of English as an official language .
(17) Sir Edward Leigh, a former minister, said breaking up the coalition would be one way of showing fed-up Conservative voters that Cameron was serious about addressing their concerns, instead of being shackled to the Liberal Democrats .
(18) But even allowing for that fact, and the long-known departure of Lampard, this will undoubtedly be a summer of upheaval for last season’s champions, not least with Uefa looking increasingly likely to loosen the shackles of financial fair play.
(19) Not only are their pay and rations fixed centrally but their revenue is shackled.
(20) When she fled the violence of Honduras and settled with relatives in Atlanta, Gutiérrez, 31, met regularly with immigration officials and wore an electronic ankle shackle, so they could track her.