How To Use Shackled In A Sentence

  • In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass.
  • Following his defiance, KSM was subjected to a number of coercive interrogation techniques besides being waterboarded the 183 times: he was kept up for seven and a half days straight while diapered and shackled, and he was told that his kids, who were now being held in American custody, would be killed. The Longest War
  • India, on the other hand, has progressively unshackled its economy from bureaucratic controls since 1991 to become one of the fastest growing economies with an average growth rate of over six percent in recent years.
  • We are all shackled to reality but free to dream of the great escape. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other freshman classes have exerted a much more profound immediate influence, though in fairness some of the guys this year were shackled by the presence of more experienced players ahead of them who would have been difficult to unseat from the lineup. Top newcomer? John Wall runs away from a talented field
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  • For once in her life she didn't feel shackled and chained.
  • She was swaying from side to side and the men unshackled her from the ceiling and dragged her to a metallic chair, bolted to the floor.
  • Men, women and children are no longershakledshackled, put on the auction block and sold like prize cattle to the highest bidder.
  • A West Germany firmly shackled to this impossibilist dogma would never be able to do a deal with the Soviet Union, such as leaving Nato in return for reunification. London Review of Books
  • But there was never a chance, never a moment, when he might run free of a cage about him, of the walls of a room restricting him, of a chain shackled to the collar about his throat. CHAPTER XXXII
  • Method: Human symbiote body shackled to a concrete wall with uninterrupted exposure. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • His feet were unshackled, however, and tapped anxiously on the floor.
  • Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled, if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? all which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well regulated ones. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
  • He was standing, shackled to the top of a door frame with a gag in his mouth at the time he died.
  • Industrial progress is being shackled by a mass of regulations.
  • The three prisoners who have been shackled up are frightened.
  • Today's NASA, in contrast, is focused on re-engineering big, expensive expendable rockets provided by hand-picked favorite contractors to launch throw-away spacecraft (also provided by hand-picked favorite contractors) whose designs are shackled to ancient architectural mentalities driven almost entirely by lunar access expediencies instead of long-term operational sustainability considerations. Sean O'Keefe Responds to Jay Barbree - NASA Watch
  • I was handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded and held in solitary confinement for three months.
  • During Burge's trial last summer, witnesses testified that he personally shackled, electrocuted, suffocated and beat them to force their admissions of guilt. Burge Lawyers Want Sentence Shortened Based On His Military Record
  • The prisoners were kept shackled during the trial.
  • Unfortunately they are fettered and shackled, and have become mouthpieces and lackeys of whoever wants to promote a message.
  • We are currently shackled, he says, to the only trading bloc in the world that is experiencing no growth. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fourth, the working class and labour movement, repressed, shackled, lacking independence, was no alternative.
  • Other authors were shackled by two dicta of contemporary thinking among evolutionary biologists, of which Beadle and Emerson were either unaware or unpersuaded.
  • Ten thousand strengths seemed then to heave him from her heart; and struggling with a power that amazed even herself, she threw him from her; and holding him off with her shackled arms, her shrieks again pierced the heavens. The Scottish Chiefs
  • When not in a cell, prisoners are cuffed, shackled and escorted by two or three guards.
  • Tacks and sheets are shackled, and the clew-garnets are lashed to the clews; when ready, man the reef-tackles, leechlines, and buntlines, and clew-garnets, and walk all the gear up together.
  • I hung over the side of the pulpit and saw that the bobstay chain was shackled to the end cap on the bowsprit, so I hunted up a wrench and another shackle.
  • Aboard ship, where recoil space was limited, the "kick" of the gun was checked by a heavy rope called a breeching, shackled to the side of the vessel Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
  • The hostage had been shackled to a radiator.
  • Rather than remain shackled to a waning star, the captain filed for bankruptcy and divorce in 1905. Cocotte of the Week: May Yohé | Edwardian Promenade
  • Then he was shackled in handcuffs, leg irons, and a belly chain and taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
  • When we entered a room full of prisoners we unshackled them and escorted them from the building.
  • Before they move you, they take you anywhere, you had to be shackled, and you had to have a chain on your waist, you had to be handcuffed.
  • It means that you live in one place, but exist in another esoteric, imaginary plane, unshackled by fact or memory.
  • Industrial progress is being shackled by a mass of regulations.
  • Not for an instant did he bow to fate: all shackled as he was, his legs engarlanded in heavy chains -- which he called his garters -- he tempered his merriment with the meditation of escape. A Book of Scoundrels
  • He adds that he is handcuffed, shackled, and chained at the waist, which has rubbed his wrists and ankles raw.
  • He will be unshackled, he'll be read his rights and the charges against him, and the details of his defence will be conveyed to him.
  • Most of each day was spent crouched on a floor, one hand shackled to one ankle with handcuffs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The appointed day came and Hank was unshackled and taken out of his dungeon cell to be burned at the stake.
  • Every time he left his cell, including for medical appointments, Thomas had to wear a body belt and was shackled with handcuffs and leg irons.
  • The visions of this spirit (idolon) were of a skinny old man (senex macie), bound and shackled. The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
  • The trade unions are shackled by the law.
  • ‘As you wish’ he repeated and unshackled my wrists and backed away.
  • They are shackled by inherited convention.
  • We need to be unshackled from the blinkered thinking of planners and action groups that all things in the Park should be made of stone and slate and woe betide anyone who says differently.
  • It is so strong that a mooring pennant can be shackled through a special fitting so the entire boat can swing off the bobstay fitting, without any concern about chafing.
  • It states that they were struck with rifle butts, punched, kicked and slapped, ‘short shackled’ in painful ‘stress positions’ and threatened with unmuzzled dogs.
  • The scene evokes an abbreviated pastoral - but the birds are shackled to their perch, which is in turn connected to the hand crank.
  • Prisoners are forced to stand, handcuffed and with their feet shackled to an eye bolt in the floor for more than 40 hours.
  • It's not like she lies shackled to her straw pallet next to the kitchen hearth, deprived of both comfort and privacy.
  • It seemed shackled to indecision, unable to make up its mind.
  • They stop digging and come together, standing side by side as they are handcuffed together and shackled at the ankles. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
  • But shortly after, his arms and legs were shackled, and he was taken to one of New York's most notorious lock-ups - Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Centre.
  • Since banks' freedom is shackled in respect of bonuses for last year they are now turning their attention to this year. Times, Sunday Times
  • enteral" feedings of hunger-striking prisoners, which entails inserting a tube down the detainee's nose to his stomach to pump in a protein shake twice a day as the detainee is shackled to a chair and his head attached to a metal restraint with Velcro. Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
  • Other photographs showed unclothed prisoners shackled to their cells with hoods or women's underwear over their heads.
  • Even when illness had shackled him to a wheelchair and reduced his voice to a croak, he never hid from his fellow man.
  • The next day, the ship reached the shore of England and all the prisoners were handcuffed, shackled and forced into boats destined for the shore.
  • Raised in a fashion prison run by her thrift-store parental wardens (Joan Cusack and John Goodman), the adult Rebecca (the redhead Isla Fisher) long ago unshackled her cloddy shoes and jumped into the pool of fashion excess. Buzzine » ‘Shopaholic’ Review: Take 2
  • He awoke bound and shackled in a prison cell with three brute men with whips standing around him.
  • He produced a statement from the prison officer to whom Mullen had been shackled who thought that the precaution was unnecessary.
  • Suspected gangsters have been shackled by new laws designed to curb hoodlum behaviour.
  • And they shackled him hand and foot and would take of him ne bail ne mainprise but preferred a charge against him for he was a malefactor. — Ulysses
  • The patient may be handcuffed or shackled with a set of manacles that are cuffed with a chain linking the ankles.
  • The unshackled Moussaoui, wearing a beard and green prison jumpsuit, told the judge he had not been promised a lighter sentence for his guilty pleas.
  • For example, if demand for rice rises, Vietnamese farmers — who remain shackled by many longstanding regulations of communism — aren’t always able to respond quickly. Archive 2008-04-01
  • She kissed him again and left them, unshackled, but still locked in the dungeon-room.
  • Today, the prophets would once again see truth and justice shackled with chains, enslaved by selfishness and the lust for power and empire.
  • When the door closed, it revealed a cell with the prisoners inside shackled to heavy metal balls resting on the wooden floor.
  • Today, the prophets would once again see truth and justice shackled with chains, enslaved by selfishness and the lust for power and empire.
  • Corrections Department rules dictate that inmates taken for medical care must be shackled and guarded, although they unchained Provencio's legs on Friday.
  • Sahim had aroused Ajib, whom he had made insensible with henbane and had brought to his brother Gharib, the captive opened his eyes and, feeling himself bound and shackled, hung down his head earthwards. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • She found herself chained and shackled to a big wooden board.
  • Fourth, the working class and labour movement, repressed, shackled, lacking independence, was no alternative.
  • One detainee died of hypothermia after being shackled to a concrete floor by an incompetent and unsupervised junior officer. Times, Sunday Times
  • Artists began to claim the right to suggest their own subject matter, unshackled by scholars or patrons.
  • At age 60, he swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf, handcuffed, shackled, and towing a 1,000-pound boat.
  • Until we politically and socially emasculate it, we will continue to be shackled by a fantasy of individualism and a Hobbesian worldview that can no longer be ameliorated by an endless frontier or global economic dominance.
  • Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?
  • From the moment they are captured, prisoners are hooded, shackled and accorded no rights whatsoever.
  • Whether you're a spy, a misanthrope, just having a bad hair day, or you're one of those worker bees who plod along day after day shackled to a monitor under neons that flicker 60 times a second, Zen Ya provides a little temporary refuge.
  • Justice LaForme also said the panel cannot allow itself to be 'shackled' by bureaucratic requirements, and that the commissioners, not government, must be able to decide how to spend their $58-million budget. Head of Commission on Indian Residential Schools Resigns
  • And I would dearly love to be unshackled from my bookish heritage and have the culture, freedom and the nerve to join in.
  • What unshackled power rises in the soul that has accepted its unquestioned right to rule?
  • It is good for man that he should feel himself at some time unshackled and autocratical, that he should say, This I do, because it is prescribed to me by the conditions without which I cannot exist, or by the election which in past time I deliberately made; and this, because it is dictated by the present frame of my spirit, and is therefore that in which the powers my nature has entailed upon me may be most fully manifested. Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries
  • The BBC explains how the rioters are 'shackled' by living in a poor place. Decline Of British Industry
  • What extravagancy is not man capable of entertaining, when once his shackled reason is led in triumph by fancy and prejudice! Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
  • I've been playing RPGs for 20+ years, and I cannot remember any time when I felt "shackled" by a particular genre. The Sociology of RPGs: A Case Study in Cultural Growth, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The guards soon unshackled Shane's foot before leading him back to the cell.
  • By image comparison of two women in the works, we could see that the independent women were gradually shackled by the feudal ethical code with the establishment of feudal ethics.
  • They stop digging and come together, standing side by side as they are handcuffed together and shackled at the ankles. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
  • Although unshackled from the 15 kg iron chains that fettered them for three years, they are yet to come to terms with their freedom.
  • Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?
  • Home Rule thus shackled Liberalism to Gladstone.
  • It means that you live in one place, but exist in another esoteric, imaginary plane, unshackled by fact or memory.
  • They are on-screen together during virtually the entire time, and for much of it, chained together by a meter-long chain shackled to their wrists.
  • Most of each day was spent crouched on a floor, one hand shackled to one ankle with handcuffs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although unshackled from the 15 kg iron chains that fettered them for three years, they are yet to come to terms with their freedom.
  • I hung over the side of the pulpit and saw that the bobstay chain was shackled to the end cap on the bowsprit, so I hunted up a wrench and another shackle.
  • If you deviated from this standard, you were shackled with guilt.
  • It means that you live in one place, but exist in another esoteric, imaginary plane, unshackled by fact or memory.
  • Surprisingly, as I got off the ship, chained and shackled, I didn't feel a deep yearning or nostalgic inclination to being on land.
  • As a Hindu I am proud to subscribe to a creed that is free of the restrictive dogmas of holy writ that refuses to be shackled to the limitations of a single holy book.
  • Changing metaphor, the equilibrium unemployment rate is seen to be shackled to the actual rate.
  • Since banks' freedom is shackled in respect of bonuses for last year they are now turning their attention to this year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trade unions are shackled by the law.
  • the belle of half a dozen balls who took a thousand calls curtained, or otherwise is getting wed hitched shackled now ball and chain where once was piece of fluff is it enough, she wonders to really really like? Archive 2007-02-01
  • For an hour a day, shackled and chained, he was allowed to walk in small circles. Times, Sunday Times
  • By night, and almost naked, covered with only a sendal and hood, the faithful males of Tzintzuntzan practice an unusual form of penitence, which consists of walking through the town, their faces covered, the ankles shackled with the same shackles which the town fathers have jealously guarded for the past 500 years, since the era of slavery under the Spanish Conquest. A Sneak Peek at Good Friday in Michoacan
  • Lining the walls around him were other people: men, women, and even children, who were all chained and shackled, just as he was.
  • The guards, meanwhile, unshackled the young woman who stood unsteadily.
  • Industrial progress is being shackled by a mass of regulations.
  • And they shackled him hand and foot and would take of him ne bail ne mainprise but preferred a charge against him for he was a malefactor. Ulysses
  • I do not think any prisoners in Australia are shackled.
  • Among the ecclesiastical treasures the Nazis had sheltered was a reliquary containing a sliver purported to be from the True Cross, a burse or relic box with soil soaked with the blood of the martyr Saint Stephen, a tiny casket with threads from the robe worn by the apostle John, links from a chain that shackled Saint Paul, and an ostensory, or holy container, with a bone of legendary Theban legionnaire Mauritius, otherwise known as Saint Maurice. HITLER’S HOLY RELICS
  • There shall be keen competition among locals, unshackled by consideration of money or distance.
  • Promoted to Headline (H3) on 5/10/09: 'Sleep deprivation': Euphemism and CIA torture of choice yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '\'Sleep deprivation\': Euphemism and CIA torture of choice '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: "Sleep deprivation," as used by the CIA in its enhanced interrogation program included being shackled to the floor and ceiling for days on end, adding to the torment. 'Sleep deprivation': Euphemism and CIA torture of choice
  • They were shackled to the metal braces of the building brace.
  • Olivier was shackled with 25 pounds of chains and forced to sleep on a hard concrete prison floor for over eight years.
  • For an hour a day, shackled and chained, he was allowed to walk in small circles. Times, Sunday Times
  • Previously, to buy an audiobook you were shackled to where your CD or cassette player was. Times, Sunday Times
  • After spending two to three months in insufferable conditions, they were shackled to boats bound for the Americas and Europe.
  • They unshackled him roughly for his daily beating.
  • Army Colonel while he attempts to break a shackled detainee. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
  • The cable was then well stoppered at the "bitts," and unshackled; and two men stationed at the stopper, with axes, and the order to cut the lashings, instantly, when so ordered; the fore-staysail was loosed, and hands stationed at the halliards; and the chief engineer directed to keep up a full head of steam. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
  • Louis Wong, a director at Phillip Securities, said the Asian markets have been unshackled from the uncertainties of the past few weeks.
  • And so, as guards frogmarched my friend out of the courtroom shackled hands to feet, I wondered how confining that man for 17 years jives with my understanding of our nation's values.
  • More naked men are shackled together by their hands and feet in a sickening parody of an orgy.
  • The diseased palazzos, with their flaking waterfront facades, leonine doorknockers and rusting, shackled iron pylons, are from a bygone era at odds with modernity. Kisa Lala: Venice Biennale: A Temple of Transience By Mike And Doug Starn
  • He would trump his father's cautious internationalism with a new, more aggressive America, unbound and unshackled.
  • Wearing a red jumpsuit from the Salt Lake County Jail, Mitchell entered the courtroom under tight security with his eyes closed, his hands and feet shackled and carrying what appeared to be a blank note pad. Accused Elizabeth Smart kidnapper Brian David Mitchell removed from courtroom
  • Most of each day was spent crouched on a floor, one hand shackled to one ankle with handcuffs. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was chained to the wall, her wrists and ankles shackled by iron manacles.
  • She lives under the most painful conditions physically – shackled in chains; starved; beaten; attacked by armies of red ants, bees, not to mention the tarantulas, "shiny-backed beetles", anacondas, bears, jaguars and wild boar that lurk outside the various camps where she was held. Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt
  • George W Bush is not shackled to the unilateralist idea, and in office realism would no doubt often prevail.

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