'unshackle' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used to describe the action of removing someone from something restrictive, so it can be used to describe someone being released from an oppressive situation. For example: "After a long battle, the government finally unshackled the citizens from their oppressive regime."
"This continuing high debt calls for an additional response to address the crisis legacies and unshackle economic potential.
But each year he finds it hard to unshackle his birthday from the events he witnessed on his Berlin balcony and on Sunday he will speak at a service in Westminster Abbey to mark the 75th anniversary.
He is determined to unshackle his country from reliance on aid.
Jack Ma, Alibaba's feisty boss (pictured), has been keen to unshackle his company from Yahoo! so that it can pursue a stockmarket flotation.
There is almost no way, politically, for lawmakers to clear legislation before the election that would unshackle themselves from those strictures — and even if they did, Obama says he'd veto it.
What California dubbed "deregulation" did very little to unshackle the power sector from the state.Supply, demand and politicsYet even with its half-baked, half-British model, the state might have muddled along for quite some time.
His agitations helped oust Scott Thompson, the former chief executive, and have just won him three board seats.The second big question is whether this deal will really unshackle Alibaba so that it can pursue a flotation of the whole group.
She campaigned for the chancellorship (and nearly lost) as a determined reformer who would unshackle enterprise, unburden taxpayers and " govern through" all obstacles.
It "must unshackle itself from a pernicious group of countries that have hijacked its operational mandate" with an agenda that has been "shameless, disruptive and unrelenting", says Kenya's man at the UN.The fact that all the cases being tried before the ICC are African is bound to lay it open to the charge of bias.
A bigger role in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations can be expected in future, but short of a grave international crisis there is little likelihood of Japan revising its constitution to unshackle its armed forces, nor of the country going nuclear.Hence a final prediction for the Japan of 2020.
Toward the end of the 18th century, the British admiral Richard Kempenfelt began to unshackle the Royal Navy with a better system of signaling.
