The walls were fettered with a series of anonymous D-list celebrity portraits — not always signed by their subjects — and hand-written notices informing you of the price of a slice of cheesecake ($5.50).
The visiting judge also found it curious when his host for the day, Judge William B. Rebolini of Suffolk County District Court in Central Islip, addressed defendants who came before him as sir, and he noted that criminal defendants were often handcuffed but seldom fettered with leg irons.
It is a shame that, where it meets the realities of safety and access, his continuous landscape is fettered with balustrades and safety rails to stop you hitting your head – as well as layers of acrylic discs to keep out the rain.
But the real world is fettered with choices that don't lead to timely, big bonuses--such as having to slog through cleaning our plate to get to dessert.
Commercial surrogacy paying a woman for the service of carrying a pregnancy to term has always been fettered with legal and ethical debates.
I've discovered that, for me, stories tend to turn out better if I leave them on a long leash and don't fetter them with a requirement to address a particular topic.
It's a nightmare world he describes, in which a disconsolate, condemned man sitting in handcuffs, with fetters on his feet, discusses funeral arrangements with his relatives, before the police take him off to the place of execution.
Around 100 demonstrators tried to surround the torch and torch bearer in Fleet Street junction with Fetter Lane at about 2.39pm, according to Scotland Yard.
The Royal Academy has real cheek to present itself as a heroic champion of the new when it has worked so hard down the centuries to fetter British artists with mind-forg'd manacles.
Mark Blaug, a specialist in the history of economic thought, credits Fetter and John Bates Clark with influencing mainstream economists to abandon the idea "that land is a unique factor of production and hence that there is any special need for a special theory of ground rent..
Thy sicken'd heart will brood and imagine future woes, And like a fetter'd bird with wild and longing heart, Thou'lt dayly pine for freedom and murmor at thy lot; Although Helen initially viewed plural marriage as "improper and unnatural," she eventually placed her trust in her father and her faith.
