Sentence examples for use of manacles from inspiring English sources

He directed that the torture be light at first, referring to the use of manacles, but more severe if necessary, authorising the use of the rack: "the gentler Tortures are to be first used unto him et sic per gradus ad ima tenditur [and so by degrees proceeding to the worst]".

Gordon Adams, a professor at George Washington University who served at the Office of Budget and Management during the Clinton administration, calls this strategy "a set of manacles that make it impossible to consider anything but the status quo".

Here, against a background of a Saddam Hussein-era mound of human skulls, a multicolored mural portrays the triumph of the new era over the old, depicting people breaking free of manacles, casting votes and holding up the purple-ink-stained fingers that were a sign of participation in the country's first, landmark democratic elections.

He sat through the hearing with the chain used to manacle him dangling at his waist.

He showed me a set of manacles and chains he had sent to be made, to be worn by Amina's captured prisoners.

For the first few days, Kornblum showed Josef different kinds of locks that he took, one by one, from the chest: locks used to secure manacles, mailboxes, and ladies' diaries; warded and pin-tumbler door locks; sturdy padlocks; and combination locks removed from safes and strongboxes.

Overt brutality was discouraged, as it was at American facilities: The KGB hardly ever uses manacles or chains, and rarely resorts to physical beatings.

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.

It emblazoned the word democracy across its front page in the form of prison manacles.

Emerson could squirm at the idea of Frederick Douglass joining the Town and Country Club; Dickinson's lines "God of the Manacle / As of the Free —/ Take not my Liberty —/ Away from Me" suggest that she was imbibing her friend Higginson's accounts, sharing his enthusiasm and, perhaps, spurring him on.

The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion.