What's the difference between shackles and shots?

Shackles


Definition:

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.

Shots


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Shot
  • (n. pl.) The refuse of cattle taken from a drove.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (2) Lead levels in contents and shells of eggs laid by hens dosed with all-lead shot were about twice those in eggs laid by hens dosed with lead-iron shot.
  • (3) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (4) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
  • (5) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
  • (6) "They couldn't understand until I said 'No, because I'm a big shot now, because I am in Wild Wild West and I have, like, 10 covers coming out, and I want a bigger part.'
  • (7) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
  • (8) That’s why I thought: ‘I hope Tyson wins – even if he never gives me a shot.’ As long as the heavyweight titles are out of Germany we could have some interesting fights.
  • (9) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
  • (10) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
  • (11) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
  • (12) At least Depay departed having had a shot on target, something his manager will probably offer as proof United are improving.
  • (13) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
  • (14) When you’ve got a man with a longer jab, you can’t throw single shots.
  • (15) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
  • (16) Michael Brown’s parents, appearing on the Today show on Tuesday, said they believe the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, would be alleviated by the prosecution of the officer who shot and killed their son.
  • (17) Learn from the masters The best way to recognise a good shot is to look at lots of other photographs.
  • (18) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
  • (19) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
  • (20) The film was shot in Monastir, Tunisia, for $4m, with financing from George Harrison's HandMade Films company, and each of the Pythons plays at least three roles.

Words possibly related to "shackles"

Words possibly related to "shots"