How To Use Hackles In A Sentence
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As he was walking past a ship chandler's shop, he was shocked to see handcuffs, leg shackles, and thumbscrews in the window.
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She ran forward and quickly undid the shackles on his wrists and ankles.
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So if anyone tries to tell you how to behave, your hackles will rise and the fiery side of your nature will come to the fore.
The Sun
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A subject race, dragooned by force for centuries, has shaken off the last of its shackles.
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Politically incorrect from the title on, this guide to old-fashioned coquetry has raised the hackles of every feminist writer worth her salt.
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Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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She saw Avery in the prison yard hanging from the shackles on his wrists.
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Those two will only get better now the shackles have been taken off by the Tottenham star.
The Sun
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More so due to being free from the shackles of domestic unrest.
The Sun
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The men roughly pulled Prudence and the others from the wagon and put cast iron shackles around their wrists, attaching them to the cart so they wouldn't get away.
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From now on, these items will be included in the existing export ban of leg irons, shackles and gang chains.
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He has taken the shackles off.
The Sun
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I clip off all the bottom and top hackles leaving the side hackles to ensure the fly sits in the surface film.
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You can feel her hackles rise.
Times, Sunday Times
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I checked the shackles that held the Monster to its slab, giving it a sharp cuff as it lashed out with its wicked needle-thin teeth at my face, slobber and foam flying from its mouth.
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Like I said, that was just my impression at the time and it didn't raise any of my "hackles," or "heckles.
Cesc Fábregas risking his and Arsenal's reputation with petty battles | Dominic Fifield
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On those boats that have internal halyards, all halyards (except, again, the main) should be disconnected from the deck and hauled through until the shackles are two-blocked at the masthead.
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The shackles of my physical body had faded away and instead I was free and floating above it, surrounded by a bright white light.
The Sun
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Freed from the shackles of words and dialects, silent cinema spoke a universal language that all nations and all classes could understand.
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He has taken the shackles off.
The Sun
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Well,' said Jo, her hackles rising immediately, `she's hardly a doctor, is she?
TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
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I saw her raise people 's hackles in a way that nobody else could.
Times, Sunday Times
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So if anyone tries to tell you how to behave, your hackles will rise and the fiery side of your nature will come to the fore.
The Sun
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This dependence is absolute, despotic; but it unshackles as well.
Joseph Brodsky - Nobel Lecture
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He constantly pondered upon the possibilities through which his friend might be freed from the shackles that bound him to the effeminate serfdom of idleness; but the magic that could unrivet those fetters had not yet been revealed.
Fairy Fingers A Novel
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The article reported that the girl was detained in handcuffs and shackles.
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This holds that France is a secular society free from religious shackles and underpinned by universal values.
Times, Sunday Times
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The prime minister's speech has raised hackles among the opposition.
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The shackles had fallen away and reflected the glow of the man's flaming hair.
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He came back with a pair of shackles and put them round my legs.
Times, Sunday Times
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From now on, these items will be included in the existing export ban of leg irons, shackles and gang chains.
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There were all these intricate diagrams of horrible shackles and thumbscrews.
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There is an almost endless stream of Con loving chunder heads with their hackles all raised, swearing up and down that this is desperation.
Archive 2008-04-01
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She remains voiceless but the postures and the expressions convey the intense desire to break out of conventional modes, a desire to burst forth from the shackles of male suppression.
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Free from the shackles of relegation, there was the tantalising prospect of uncaged tigers released to feast and relieve their frustration on the home side.
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The shackles were taken off.
Times, Sunday Times
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I needn't remind you that this is the very same society that shackles them with its false smile and pristine lies and acts as a drug for the braindead masses.
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By evoking the shamelessness of the mythic trickster, the creative artist overcomes shame and breaks through the shackles of social constraint.
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She found herself in a dark cold cell with chains around her wrists and shackles around her ankles.
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Freed from shackles or facing end of the world as we know it?
Times, Sunday Times
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Her hackles can rise suddenly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her controversial article is bound to raise hackles.
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What raises my hackles about this post -- and, mind you, my hackles are my responsibility, not yours -- is its (wholly unintentional) echo of part of the bizarrely illogical conception of the Jews by Christian propagandists.
The Stain of Sin
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She and I would never be broken apart again, and we would never have to feel the lash of a whip, hear someone call us ugly names, feel the cold cruelty of shackles and chains about our wrists and ankles.
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Loans form 60 per cent of its offerings, but mention them to many in the third sector and watch hackles rise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Loans form 60 per cent of its offerings, but mention them to many in the third sector and watch hackles rise.
Times, Sunday Times
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A pair of shackles and chilling messages daubed on the walls have already been uncovered from the first two secret chambers at the site.
The Sun
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The game also plays rather well and embraces the freedom from shackles.
The Sun
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The phrase that Walt popularized that raises hackles, because it is a name, which implies a (corporate) entity being named and is for that reason vaguely conspiratorial in connotation, is “Israel Lobby.”
Matthew Yglesias » A Valentine From Steven Walt
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A pack of wolves, fifty at least, were coming toward her, hackles raised, teeth bared, snarling.
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This capacity empowers and unshackles developers from the limitations and obstacles they face in the development of software for other devices, putting the power in the hands of the artist.
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You can feel her hackles rise.
Times, Sunday Times
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We certainly don't put the shackles on.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, thankfully we have an opportunity each fall to choose cinematic options that remove (to a degree) the shackles of the corporate system.
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JUST take the shackles off a bit more and see where it takes us.
The Sun
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The shackles were taken off.
Times, Sunday Times
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I noticed that she had cuffs around her wrists and ankles, like shackles without the chains.
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Second, Chinese official aid to unsavory governments in order to lubricate OFDI contracts raises governance and humanitarian concerns and, therefore, hackles among developed country governments.
StephenGoldsmith: FDI with Chinese Characteristics
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The commandant had prepared a champan and shackles to send the religious to Manila.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing t
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He puts me in shackles to stop me storming the stage.
The Sun
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And the ones that make you want to throw off the shackles and shout along are always the best.
The Sun
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The blanket of media negativity, he says, still raises the hackles.
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Every word testifies that they were indited by a writer of puissant individuality, disengaged from the shackles of conventional homiletics, and boldly striking out on untrodden paths.
Jewish Literature and Other Essays
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The smell conjured up terrible, dog-like images of danger and violence, and the hackles on the tomcat's neck stood at attention.
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Now, however, the statue is raising hackles among the city's business and financial establishment.
At Milan's Bourse, Finger Pointing Has Business Leaders Up in Arms
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Different coloured hackle fibres for tail and throat hackles can work well.
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But what a night the bloody hangdog Bonthron must have had of it, dancing a pavise in mid air to the music of his own shackles, as the night wind swings him that way and this!
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
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People who lost money on him called him a "brumby"; but if ever any horse had Harpoon's shoulders and The Gin's temper, Shackles was that horse.
Indian Tales
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It would free us from the shackles of the current consociational state of affairs and would create the space for ‘normal politics’ that strange phenomenon everyone claims to desire to finally take root.
Archive 2008-02-01
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He also wore shackles on his wrists and ankles as well as a metal collar around his neck to prevent his escape.
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They finally managed to throw off the shackles of communism.
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Wind farms, rather than windmills, are raising the hackles.
Times, Sunday Times
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A pair of shackles and chilling messages daubed on the walls have already been uncovered from the first two secret chambers at the site.
The Sun
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The vampire shook his arms, jiggling the shackles.
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The DSEi website explicitly states the sale of "leg irons, gang chains, shackles and shackle bracelets" are prohibited.
UK arms fair under scrutiny over 'cluster munitions' stall
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It is time we cast off the shackles of this oppressive existence and let liberty, personal responsibility and social tolerance flourish in New Zealand.
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Her eyes practically exploded with flames and her hair rose a little, like a dog rising its hackles.
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Next to me, I could almost feel Cale's hackles rising in defiance and uneasiness, much like a cornered dog about to make a break for it between the gaps in the ring of its attackers.
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The public had previously called upon the artistic community within the establishment to throw off the shackles of regimented style favoured by the state.
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It is hardly surprising that our historical hackles rise when we see the phantom menace taking shape once more.
Times, Sunday Times
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With countless hackles raised, justifiably, on a daily basis with regard to the current fiasco, it's time for the verbals to cease.
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However, because of the special social status Pinger cannot get rid of the shackles of the feudal society, which leads to her tragic life.
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The boy was wearing a blue and black prisoner uniform with broken shackles on his wrists and feet.
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To use a burning consciousness of one’s own misery, of the shackles that cut one’s own limbs, to quicken one’s sense of life in general, as Dickens did, to shape out of the murk which has surrounded one’s childhood some resplendent figure such as Micawber or Mrs. Gamp, is admirable: but to use personal suffering to rivet the reader’s sympathy and curiosity upon your private case is disastrous.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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As she moved her hand to massage her temples, she felt the weight of heavy chains and shackles around her wrists.
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Together, they're a couple of test-lab refugees with little in common except for the three feet of chain that shackles them together.
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Power sluiced past his gaping jaws and coursed over his hackles.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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The shackles of my physical body had faded away and instead I was free and floating above it, surrounded by a bright white light.
The Sun
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They will not be in contention for the championship, there should be no shackles.
Times, Sunday Times
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When teams go two goals down, they throw off their shackles and stream forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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THE Pound has soared after the manufacturing industry threw off the shackles of Brexit uncertainty last month.
The Sun
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More so due to being free from the shackles of domestic unrest.
The Sun
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Finally, he reached into his knapsack, removing a pair of handcuffs and leg shackles to restrain Nathan.
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The question is not whether Mourinho commits these solecisms: every week provides a new instance of a Mourinhism that raises the hackles of stout-hearted, stout-drinking English yeomen.
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She saw Avery in the prison yard hanging from the shackles on his wrists.
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Those two will only get better now the shackles have been taken off by the Tottenham star.
The Sun
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He came back with a pair of shackles and put them round my legs.
Times, Sunday Times
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One by one, live birds are hung by the feet on a moving line of hooks called shackles and mechanically stunned, decapitated, and scalded to remove the feathers.
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All rigging gear, such as slings, shackles, spreaders, and hooks, must be rated for the load that is being lifted.
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Lots of times, gals get in hackles about voluptuous panty-flashing video game vixens and the game camera's decadent worship of their rendered flesh.
Archive 2008-02-01
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After repelling Oxford's more determined thrusts, City broke free from their shackles as a Richard Hope shot from 25 yards was deflected wide for a corner.
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Her controversial article is bound to raise hackles.
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This holds that France is a secular society free from religious shackles and underpinned by universal values.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when Google or any search engine start making size claims, my hackles go way up.
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The dog stared, ears flattening, and she saw his hackles rise along his spine.
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Conveniently perhaps ominously Selenas blueblood employers are nowhere to be found, and their estates jittery caretaker raises hackles.
Bones by Jonathan Kellerman: Book summary
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Could we ever break free from these shackles of social insensitivity and ignorance?
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As Jordan walked through the school gates it was as if iron shackles fell over his wrists and weighed him down.
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But we want a Britain free of the shackles of the three major political parties.
The Sun
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But what a night the bloody hangdog Bonthron must have had of it, dancing a pavise in mid air to the music of his own shackles, as the night wind swings him that way and this!”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Isabella's hackles rose, immediately running to my defense.
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She stood and with his help the chains were pulled from the ground and unthreaded from her shackles, leaving her only in a pair of cuffs.
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The minister's refusal to back-pedal on his smoking ban earlier this year raised the hackles of publicans nationwide who claimed it damaged their business enormously.
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After the first hackle, called a ruffler, six other finer hackles were often used.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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Laura heard his remark, and felt her hackles rising.
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Family support groups and consumers have come out in the open breaking the shackles of stigma and fighting for their rights.
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‘I'm sorry,’ he said, and he took a pair of shackles and locked them around her wrists, chaining her to the wall.
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With scarcity and stagnation cast aside, the economy could finally throw off the shackles of a crude good-for-good bartering system.
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It is hardly surprising that our historical hackles rise when we see the phantom menace taking shape once more.
Times, Sunday Times
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The game also plays rather well and embraces the freedom from shackles.
The Sun
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When teams go two goals down, they throw off their shackles and stream forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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We will throw off the shackles and turn in a performance against Slovenia.
The Sun
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However, the brothers filed through their shackles and made a desperate and final bid for freedom.
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Their thick hackles rose and their lips curled back into snarls as they spotted the two.
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Any attempt by the US to influence Italian politics still raises hackles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sekher felt his hackles rise, claws extruded in fear.
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People who lost money on him called him a "brumby;" but if ever any horse had Harpoon's shoulders and The Gin's temper, Shackles was that horse.
Plain Tales from the Hills
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The script fits Steve Forbes, whose self-financed run for the Republican presidential nomination is raising hopes and hackles.
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Bowering's hackles rise and then just as quickly fall again.
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Her forthright manner and whirlwind energy raised the hackles of some of the old guard.
Times, Sunday Times
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There's that secret burning desire in each of us that wants to break free from the shackles of obedience.
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With the bailout guarantee verbally and practically in place and the vision of a new economic dawn firmly put forth, the shackles of fear that had restrained excessive debt accumulation in the past have been shed.
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When you've been trapped in the shackles of ballet most of your life, escaping to the world of contemporary dance can be liberating.
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Of all the reasons for using the new technology, pure ego raises the most hackles.
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Freed from shackles or facing end of the world as we know it?
Times, Sunday Times
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I think it was being in those woods, all the roots twining around my bones, like shackles.
Slice Of Cherry
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I notice that my nationalistic hackles are rising and that the antipathy from the Celts is really beginning to grate on me.
England`s Future Decided in Scotland
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When he says go for it, you take the shackles off.
Times, Sunday Times
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In each you'll see Black trying to break the shackles by fianchettoing his queen's Bishop and endeavoring to break in the center with… d7-d5.
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Petition: 30.01.2009 I think most of our Countrymen have forgotten how our Leader Raja Ram Mohan Roy liberated the ladies from the shackles of the terrible conservatisim which was pulling them to the abyss and I am sure he would be very saddened at this stupid turn of events in Mangalore by this so called sena people.
Rediff.com
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A pack of wolves, fifty at least, were coming toward her, hackles raised, teeth bared, snarling.
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The Arabs' closeness to history and their refusal to shake off the shackles of the past are part of their problem.
A Rock and a Hard Place
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However, there is evidence of the shameful goings on at Guantanamo Bay, where cameras have shown us cages not fit for animals, shackles, gags, hoods and blindfolds.
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However, the brothers filed through their shackles and made a desperate and final bid for freedom.
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Bebe puffed up her little body, her short fur trying to ridge along her back into hackles, her bared fangs at Daisy's throat.
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No chains, no ropes, no shackles bound him, not even so much as a door blocked either of the two exits.
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The script fits Steve Forbes, whose self-financed run for the Republican presidential nomination is raising hopes and hackles.
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Ben felt his hackles rise as the speaker continued.
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The 18th century philosophers wanted to liberate man from the shackles of blind faith and obedience to authority.
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JUST take the shackles off a bit more and see where it takes us.
The Sun
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Ms Beeny is so very annoying that I can usually feel my hackles rising before the programme has even reached the halfway point.
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Expect them to be full of goals now that the boss has thrown off the shackles.
The Sun
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Faced with the famous red hackles of the the organization, they dropped their bags and applauded.
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My teeth grind together, and my hackles rise, and I want to find the radio or whatever it is and rip it to bits.
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The minister's refusal to back-pedal on his smoking ban earlier this year raised the hackles of publicans nationwide who claimed it damaged their business enormously.
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It bared its teeth, hackles bristling, and snarled.
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Prometheus is bound in writhing shackles that reach up and clasp his arms.
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You can mail order to your heart's content, free from the shackles of provincial law.
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Loans form 60 per cent of its offerings, but mention them to many in the third sector and watch hackles rise.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the state fails, that would raise the hackles of the elite and most of Mexico's elite in Mexico City and Guadalajara are cocooned from the violence.
Mexican Cartels' Bloody Campaign For Sovereignty
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He was glad to see that she had at last freed herself from the shackles of that curse of convictism, and could now go hand in hand with the other colonies in the march of progress.
Explorations in Australia, Illustrated,
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Living in Britain offers them freedom from family shackles and the prospect of financial gain.
Times, Sunday Times
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With malevolent eye highlighted in red and throat feathers raised like the hackles of a dog, he was distinctly intimidating.
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The company made logging tools and parts, maple handles, loading blocks, shackles, chain hocks, load binders, neck yokes, whiffletrees and steel fittings for these.
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This leads me to ask what differences exist between those who have broken the shackles of a common dilemma and those who have not.
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Her forthright manner and whirlwind energy raised the hackles of some of the old guard.
Times, Sunday Times
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He puts me in shackles to stop me storming the stage.
The Sun
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The shackles of my physical body had faded away and instead I was free and floating above it, surrounded by a bright white light.
The Sun
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He was taunted for his religious beliefs, transported in painful cuffs and shackles, and denied family visits or telephone calls.
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According to Hirsi Ali, Muslim women – constricted by Islam – cannot be feminists, live independently, enjoy their sexuality or escape the mental shackles that bind their intellect … So now, Ali is in America and finds herself in a political conundrum.
Worth Your Time « Planning the Day
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I handed in my cassock, the black and white outfit that had raised our dog's hackles and set him to barking when I first modelled it at home for my astonished family, who had stopped attending years earlier.
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Both sexes may erect hackles on neck when alarmed, to form prominent whiskers.
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Black throat-feathers bristled like the hackles of an angered wolf, while its dark eyes were set off by striking ‘eyebrows’ - wattles of vivid red flesh.
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In large classrooms on the upper floors of the western buildings, the patrol found heaps of shackles, handcuffs, whips and lengths of chain.
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Sometimes, when we're lucky, art whispers to us that in the midst of the worst suffering and darkness, we can break free of our shackles.
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I saw her raise people 's hackles in a way that nobody else could.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man, slowly recovering his senses, was "bucked" in a manner known to any schoolboy; as securely bound as if with handcuffs and with shackles; as helpless as a babe!
A Man and a Woman
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The press, once heavily censored, has managed to shake off its shackles.
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These flies may have brightly coloured bodies or long hackles and we can only guess at what the trout think they are.
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Living in Britain offers them freedom from family shackles and the prospect of financial gain.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the move has raised hackles among some secularists in a country whose modern founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, was a renowned drinker of raki , the national anisette spirit.
Alcohol Hits Nerve In Turkey
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Most people are aware when they feel their "hackles rising".
Coping with Angina
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Her hackles can rise suddenly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her controversial article is bound to raise hackles.
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They finally managed to throw off the shackles of communism.
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Motionless were they then, their arms high, their bodies beautifully elongated, stretched out, suspended from the outjutting beams in the shackles and harness.
Renegades Of Gor
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Lee's hackles rose, his ears flattened, and a low growl began deep in his chest.
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He could feel the hairs on the back of his neck stirring, like the hackles of a dog.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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It is hardly surprising that our historical hackles rise when we see the phantom menace taking shape once more.
Times, Sunday Times
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Midfielder will look to put shackles on Swansea's creative players.
The Sun
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If the pain from the raw electricity didn't kill the prisoner, the shackles would.
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Was this not a historic opportunity to break free from the shackles of class oppression and found a new society?
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At first sight, it seems hyena-esque, haunches lower than hackles, kind of shifty-looking.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the shackles of the world cast off, he ventures off into the unknown, braving the storm to find the rainbow on the other side - just as he wants.
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Koh acknowledged that these methods have included the use of tear gas, pepper-spray, stun guns, stun belts, police dogs, handcuffs and leg shackles.
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The boar saw the sword and his hackles rose; the hunters feared for their lord's life.
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Then he gave orders to sweep a bench behind the door and, spreading on it a sitting-rug and a leather-cloth, seated Nur al-Din thereon and loosed his shackles and entreated him kindly.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Many journalists and organisations view free speech as the opportunity to loosen the shackles of defamation, contempt of court, parliamentary privilege and privacy.
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And then after we heard that there was a shackle, which is about a 24-inch total length chain with a handcuff at each end -- it's basically like leg shackles you see people put on their legs when brought into the courtroom -- as well as regular set of handcuffs, then we could start to say, OK, if she was on a bench and one end of that handcuff shackle was on the bench and she was trying to get out of her handcuffs, then I could say, OK, now I understand how that chain may have gotten across her neck.
CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2007
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What really raises Madison Avenue’s hackles is the potential for Google to become Universal Advertising Inc.: a sprawling presence that brokers highly targeted ads across all media.
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