Sentence examples for shackle from inspiring English sources

A shackle immediately brings to mind slavery and prisons; neither is very glamorous.

Who? The 28-year-old musician, a founding member of experimental jazz band Portico Quartet, decided to hang up his Hang (which he's since described as a "bit of a shackle") in 2010, in favour of solo stardom.

These had been especially created by the designer Jeremy Scott, with an extra special detail on them: a bright orange plastic cuff, designed to look like a shackle, with a chain connecting the trainer and the cuff, on each ankle.

Siren voices including that of Bill Harrison, chief executive of J. P. Morgan Chase, are beginning to warn that a raft of new regulations and moves to break up the industry could shackle investment banks at a time when their profits are already under strain.Nevertheless, reform of how research is conducted by investment banks now seems inevitable.

Muslims, she says, must stop prioritising the afterlife over this life; they must "shackle sharia" and respect secular law; they must abandon the idea of telling others, including non-Muslims, how to behave, dress or drink; and they must abandon holy war.

Unburdened by the constraints that shackle most of her 27 fellow commissioners, she can block mergers, launch surprise raids on private offices and threaten multinationals with vast fines.

If public-sector workers cannot afford to live in the south-east of England, then the government should be changing pay scales that currently discriminate in favour of public sector workers in cheap bits of the country and against those in expensive bits, rather than reintroducing something that once looked like a boon to the poor and turned out to be a shackle.

The constitution, often portrayed as designed to shackle government, actually imposed a structure that the earlier Articles of Confederation lacked, notes Garry Wills, a historian.

You can shackle a Yahoo to his desk, but you can't make him feel the buzz.

Last year the president's economic lieutenants had seemed content to shackle the banks with tougher regulation and higher capital ratios, rather than limiting their activities.

With a single voice, the opposition now demands direct, contested elections, the abolition of laws that shackle political life and allow for arbitrary arrest, and constitutional reform to redress the current, extreme imbalance between the executive and other branches of government.