Sentence examples for shackle that from inspiring English sources

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After she had been left alone, the police said, they found her unconscious, with the shackle that connected her to the bench resting across her neck.

Though all those immigrant eyes have made her their own, and though that amnesia, some of it induced, has worked to airbrush out the broken slave shackle that still lies at her feet — though we may not recognize it sufficiently or say so often enough — the biggest Civil War memorial of all is still the best big statue in the city.

It's this corrosive mentality – that the government is out to get us while Google wants to "help" us by releasing "open" software and that the walled garden of iOS is a boon to humanity and not a shackle that will do us in sooner than any bill.

Stinking thinking is like a shackle that holds us back from living our best life.

Yet few people recognize how impactful guilt is on human action-how even when we are not consciously worrying about our heinous acts, that guilt is the shackle that keeps us connected to our suffering.

The almost $70 billion a year we're squandering to imprison hundreds of thousands of people in prisons, immigrant detention facilities, and juvenile lockup is a shackle that's holding our country back.

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Together you can throw off the shackles that have bound you to second-class citizenship.

Nor did she appreciate the shackles that pinched Deptford as a town.

If we wish to break the shackles that keep our poor poor, then we need to liberate them from dependency.

Van Doren, who had earlier written a biography of Swift, couldn't have tried harder to free Franklin from the shackles that bound him.

Mr Bisignani has long campaigned for the industry to be freed from the shackles that prevent airlines being run as normal businesses.

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