| My left foot became wedged within the glass itself and it felt as if a tight fitting shackle were restraining me. |
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| Some journalists missed the opportunity because they were overcautious and tended to shackle themselves. |
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| The limitations of a saddle-stitched book shackle Business Week to a maximum of 364 pages. |
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| On the far left, the lead hanger runs the belt by pushing a lever with his knee and hangs the first shackle. |
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| It is immoral and absurd to shackle all citizens because of the feared imprudence or disastrous luck of a tiny percentage. |
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| It is too bad that we often put readers, ordained and lay, in costumes that shackle the creative reading of texts. |
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| And unlike the anti-marketing Masters Tournament, which limits ads, the USGA doesn't shackle the networks. |
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| When you spike the tack shackle the pressure is completely released from the sail and the sail is blanketed behind the mainsail. |
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| We designed a new attachment point for the bobstay at the stem and incorporated an additional hole for a heavy shackle. |
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| The man, a convict who has escaped from a prison ship, scares Pip into stealing him some food and a file to grind away his leg shackle. |
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| I want to break free from the chains that shackle me to them. |
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| Development processes must secure the removal of those constraints which shackle people's choices and opportunities. |
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| I hung over the side of the pulpit and saw that the bobstay chain was shackled to the end cap on the bowsprit, so I hunted up a wrench and another shackle. |
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| However, the gap in terms of resources and technical expertise continues to shackle Africa's ability to realize its potential. |
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| Mrs. Joe is Pip's sister, who raises Pip with a heavy hand and is a generally unpleasant woman until a mysterious intruder clobbers her with an iron shackle. |
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| During this past year, I have often heard it said that we cannot shackle science or call a halt to development. |
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| The control head of the bucket assembly with an attached shackle also remained intact and appeared to be undamaged. |
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| There is no shackle exposed, the locks are drill, torch and hammer resistant and offer no obvious weakness. |
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| Conservatives distrust public officials and want to shackle them with detailed rules. |
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| The largest shackle around the ankles of humanity is the ball and chain of religion. |
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| An institution that might have protected us two hundred years ago has become a shackle. |
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| I think that there would be no point into trying to shackle it with a predefined mandate. |
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| Nylon is not recommended for use where significant movement of the shackle is expected. |
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| When a soft shackle fails it is almost always at the diamond knot made of the strong slippery rope that sucks the tails in under heavy load. |
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| Attach the new safety chain hook to the FMTV tow shackle opposite the trailer angle. |
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| So given all the evidence against it, why shackle women at all? |
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| A shackle key or metal marlinspike are useful tools for loosening a tight nut. |
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| Attach the main halyard shackle to the sail headboard. |
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| The Prinoths return, we shackle up and are soon on the plateau proper. |
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| Let us keep in mind, though, that the main goal is to get this country out of debt so that we do not shackle not only our kids but their kids and their kids' kids with the huge debt that exists in this country. |
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| They can shackle buyers to current interest rates. |
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| If we want a good environment and energy policy, it makes no sense to put Member States that are more advanced or have stricter requirements in a particular matter on a leash and shackle them. |
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| All of us and all our nations are a chain gang, shackle together. |
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| 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. |
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| Do not use the halyard snap shackle for safety reasons. |
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| Maximum shackle duration before the waterbath. |
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| Let us not forget that the last thing the Conservatives did, just before Easter, was to shackle us with the Minister of Finance's approach to securities. |
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| They need to break the cycle of an institutionalized welfare state that we have implemented and which continues to shackle the aboriginal people in this country. |
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| Also known as jail locks, Scandinavian padlocks were made from cast components, having a malleable iron body, shackle, and key. |
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| The plan, later criticised for its size and needless complexity, contained orders to shackle prisoners. |
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| A halyard, for example, is a line used to raise and lower a sail, and is typically made of a length of rope with a shackle attached at one end. |
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| This would shackle the Republic to French policies and so constrain its independence. |
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| A shackle is also the similarly shaped piece of metal used with a locking mechanism in padlocks. |
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| A pin shackle is closed with an anchor bolt and cotter pin, in a manner similar to a clevis. |
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| The pin may be captive, which means it is mated to the shackle, usually with a wire. |
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| The gripes are adjusted using a turnbuckle, the threaded part of which is secured by a shackle attached to the davit frame, and the other end, the turnbuckle eye, to the gripe shackle. |
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| For safety, it is common to mouse a threaded shackle to keep the pin from coming loose. |
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| This is done by looping mousing wire or a nylon zip tie through the hole in the pin and around the shackle body. |
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| Pin shackles can be inconvenient to work with, at times, as the bolt will need to be secured to the shackle body to avoid its loss, usually with a split pin or seizing wire. |
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| In 1949, the British navy redefined the shackle to be 15 fathoms. |
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