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It is a noun that means a handcuff or other restraint used to bind a person’s wrists or ankles. For example: The prisoner was placed in manacles before being taken to the court.
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Shown on p. 91 are high black suede spur boots from Manolo Blahnik for Antonio Berardi's show; manacle bangles and a punky hairpiece at Fabio Piras; and Alexander McQueen's Freddy Krueger-style hand ornaments.
He has a hand on her wrist suddenly, clamped there like a manacle, and he's tugging at her, shouting in her face.
Despite believing that his African colony would have a "reflex influence" on the United States that would "cleft the manacle of every slave in the land," Delany continued to support more direct assaults on slavery.
We come in, we manacle you, and you sit down and you do what we say".
"Which is why my contempt for those so-called liberals who insidiously conspire to manacle press freedom is only matched by my admiration for those in our industry who strive to preserve it.
You wouldn't think so as Dacre blasts Impress as a "joke body" and reiterates his contempt for "so-called liberals who insidiously conspire to manacle press freedom".
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Just outside his establishment was his large red sports car.Some massage parlours have jacuzzis, others boast of dungeons complete with whips and manacles.
A small painting shows a former slave and her child working a meagre vegetable patch and, near it, a bronze of a bare-chested emancipated slave features the cruel bracelets of broken manacles.
Hard choices loom in energy among dangerous nuclear power, dirty coal and expensive renewables.Germany's leaders will handle all this wearing fiscal manacles.
IN THE summer of 1912 Harry Houdini was clapped in manacles and leg-irons, stuffed into a crate that had been weighed down by lead, and dropped from a tugboat into New York's East River.
Mr Schwarzman has derided public ownership, calling stockmarkets "overrated", and bashed the Sarbanes-Oxley act, which clamps corporate-governance manacles on listed firms.
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