Sentences with fetter
fet·ter
F f - He saw a boy in fetters in the dungeons.
- The fetters of social convention
- In such circumstances it would, I think, place a serious fetter on negotiations between other parties if they knew that everything that passed between them would ultimately have to be revealed to the one obdurate litigant.
- A contract which unlawfully fetters the discretion of a purchaser is ultra vires and invalid.
- Boredom puts fetters upon the imagination.
- Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.
- The principle thus given is of great importance and ought not, in my opinion, to be unduly fettered or restricted.
- Whereas wrong desires restrict and fetter, right desires enhance and liberate.
- To attempt to place upon the idea the fetters of an exact verbal formula could never have been sound.
- Mr Francis argued that it does because it fetters one of the important rights inherent in ownership, that of freedom of alienation.
- Yes, it means having a nationality, and more often than not, a religion, and so on; all of these things which really fetter us I think.
- Philosophers, however, were not fettered by such constraints.
- How far can the government fetter its own future freedom of executive action by entering into a contract?
- I stood up as quick as possible, intending to take off again, but a pair of strong hands, his hands, wrapped around my shoulders and held me in place like I had fetters attached to my ankles.
- Wherefore The Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
- It is a de facto fetter on the Minister's freedom to formulate policy in Government and the electorate's right to vote for parties espousing particular policies.
- For Faqir, it is the belief that all poetic expression can convey the ineffable, disclosing the nature of their inner being unalloyed by the fetters of religious and social convention.
- Virtually no legal fetters exist to curb the resort to force; international legal standards afford only minimal protection.
- Future work will not be fettered by previous constraints.
- Now a short chain led from my ankle fetters to an iron staple hammered into the floor.
- In my judgment to impose such an obligation on a secured creditor would impose a serious fetter on the freedom of the secured creditor to exercise his power of sale over the charged property at the time and in the manner he chooses.
- But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
- And they… put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of bronze, and carried him to Babylon.
- But it cannot, nor does it attempt to, impose fetters on the obligations of police authorities to pass information between each other.
- There might be times when the tactics infringe individual freedoms such as the freedom to travel without fetter or freedoms of speech.
- It is said that the fetter on judicial review unlawfully discriminates against non-nationals on the ground of their nationality.
- The libertarian position, that everything the government does to try to curb antisocial behaviour is an illegitimate fetter on personal liberty, seems to me to be quite wrong.
- We certainly listened very closely to the advice provided by officials, weighed up the issues, and basically came down to the basis that we must not unduly fetter or hamstring the commission itself.
- Let loose for his first full 90 minutes this week, in a reserve match against Montrose, he says he was refusing to be fettered by any constraints.
- I am appalled he would sanction the introduction of legislation such as this which, as Deputy Dukes said, will fetter the members of the House now and in the future.
- Licensing, legal threats and intimidation directed at journalists all fetter press freedom.
- The benign prerogative of mercy reposed cannot be fettered by any legislative restrictions.
- It is contrary to the public interest because to admit such actions would place an undesirable fetter on freedom of speech.