fettered

• “The spluttering defensiveness, the creepy vindictiveness, all signs of a brain fettered with incipient rot.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Der Dolchstoss

• “This pedantry of costume and the circumspect carriage which it exacted, were pleasantly contrasted with the flowing vivacity of the wearer, engendering by their concourse an amusing compound, which I might call a fettered and pinioned alacrity of demeanor, the rigid stateliness of exterior seeming rather ineffectually to encase, as a half-bursting chrysalis, the wings of a gay nature.”

  Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,

• “Anyone who says that the industry is 'fettered' by too much regulation and government interference, needs a swift kick in the ass!”

  Archive 2009-07-01

• “I mean, sure, Verizon provided the government spy agencies "fettered" access to my private, confidential, personal phone records that they were supposed to keep to themselves for the past many years that I've been a Verizon customers - and they didn't.”

  05/12/2006

• “Though 'fettered' slave be none, her floors and soil”

  HUMANITY

• “It was a little like betting on a fixed (or even "fettered") race.”

  NEWS.com.au | Top Stories

• “And they call US ridiculous ... was "fettered" by government regulation.”

  From On High

• “It would be interesting to see how well she'd compete against such "fettered" rivals as Germany, France and even Italy.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Can Britain Really Prosper 'Unfettered' by the EU?

• “He was a Caliban, a monstrous phantom, fettered to him for untold ages, the penalty of some forgotten crime.”

  In a Far Country

• “In this scenario, the US, its efforts having appeared futile, would in fact gain resumed talks in the period just after the midterm elections, when presumably it is less fettered by domestic interference.”

  The Huffington Post: Steven L. Spiegel: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: How to Turn the Current Mess Into a Success

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