There have been murmurs of disapproval in America for the way the monkeys are trained and the fact that they are constantly kept on leashes and do not breed.
Much of this increase has come from middle-class mothers going to work instead of staying at home.Cell-phones and beepers act like electronic leashes, keeping people perpetually tied to their job.
Some of the pilgrims are leading camels by leashes like dogs.Our drive to Lake Amistad for a swim is blocked by an enormous puddle a mile across and knee-deep.
A poster decorating the Brothers' biggest encampment depicts Barack Obama as a wicked pharaoh, grasping dog leashes attached to the necks of General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's defence minister (who sports a Star of David kerchief) and of Mohamed ElBaradei, a prominent secular figure currently serving as vice-president.
Grab the current Economist rate card to figure out "our" demographics, but I assume that e-mail and other digital leashes (cell phones, Crackberries) are part of the staple diet.Let us also agree that some technologies dramatically simplify our lives, while others complicate them.
Foreign and Chinese journalists (both normally kept on short leashes by the authorities during natural disasters) were allowed to pour in.This unprecedented access stimulated a lively debate in China, in the traditional media as well as online, about the need for a freer press and a better flow of information from the government.
Some officials see local publications as allies in the effort to unmask crooked regional and municipal authorities, and so favour lengthening reporters' leashes.
In addition, Dr Mahathir's old guard is supposedly being kept on shorter leashes.
The Supreme Court agreed, though a dissenting justice observed that a pet store might just as logically package its puppies with leashes and then argue that it sold leashes, not puppies.
"Pooch de Noël" fragrance goes for $500 a bottle, Italian leather collars and leashes for as much as $5,000.
'Defined Lines' presents men with dog leashes around their necks, dressed in their underwear, being squirted with cream and feeding the women cake.
