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The principle thus given is of great importance and ought not, in my opinion, to be unduly fettered or restricted.
She followed obediently, moving in ridiculously small steps because her ankles were fettered to her waist.
The benign prerogative of mercy reposed cannot be fettered by any legislative restrictions.
They are fettered, and can only see shadows of objects carried behind them, projected by the light of a fire onto the back wall of the cave.
His companions were fettered and handcuffed, and were carried in a bullock cart to Delhi.
He has been, your Honour, conveyed back to the same strict custody, manacled and fettered.
If the freed slave was not fettered by this social contract, she was criminal.
Through the solid floor of the abode, the chill of winter seeped in, fettered little by the meagre warmth provided by the fire.
Unfortunately they are fettered and shackled, and have become mouthpieces and lackeys of whoever wants to promote a message.
Although unshackled from the 15 kg iron chains that fettered them for three years, they are yet to come to terms with their freedom.
To my knowledge this Parliament has never fettered and never limited its own jurisdiction.
Secondly, the Minister has fettered his discretion by not examining the particular circumstances of the matter.
The Government notes that future decisions of regulatory authorities should not be fettered.
It follows that the House should not be unduly fettered by a convention, the basis of which is uncertain.
You feel fettered by all the CRTC measures requiring Canadian or Quebec content to be shown during prime time.
Philosophers, however, were not fettered by such constraints.
While thus fettered I was seized and flung down by a heavy sea which retreating suddenly left me lying naked on the sharp shingle from which I rose streaming with blood.
Let loose for his first full 90 minutes this week, in a reserve match against Montrose, he says he was refusing to be fettered by any constraints.
Evidently, Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz in short order made himself into a poster boy for fettered capitalism.
Cloning carries the potential for such misuse and can be fettered to the sins of human pride and arrogance.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Rochelle was presently fettered with an incredible number of denunciations.
They would not allow him to resist, but fettered him and led his spirit away.
In this spirit, he was fettered with great care, and conveyed into the interior of the prison.
His face changed, as it will with fear, and he dragged his feet, as though they were fettered.
He was confused in his gait, almost as if his lower limbs had been fettered, too.
She is robed and crowned, her arms fettered with golden chains, and holds herself proudly, not looking at husak.
I will help him throw off the shackles with which conscienceless capitalism has fettered him.
These, after being fettered, were taken to the custom house prison.
And shall we crouch above these graves,With craven soul and fettered lip?
They are fettered and gyved by what they have said and done.
Here again our legislation is fettered by ignorance and religious dogma.
Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate, that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed.
A horse thus fettered is for a time sadly embarrassed, but soon becomes sufficiently accustomed to the restraint to move about slowly.
He had been anaesthetized and stripped of his weapons, and as he rose to his feet he saw that one ankle was fettered to a chain in the wall.
I'd send them jabbering Frenchers back into their den again, afore the week was ended, howling like so many fettered hounds or hungry wolves.
Or at least, if she did not bring herself quite to rejoice in Edward's being fettered to Lucy, she determined, that had Lucy been more amiable, she OUGHT to have rejoiced.
The first and second were successfully darted, and we saw the whales staggeringly running off, fettered by the enormous sidelong resistance of the towing drugg.
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