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Finally liberated from major label shackles, DiS speaks to ...— Drowned In Sound // Feed
In this new war, "the gloves came off," "the shackles were removed" - images much loved within the administration and, in the case of those "shackles," by George Tenet's CIA.— Infowars
In this new war, "the gloves came off," "the shackles were removed" -- images much loved within the administration and, in the case of those "shackles," by George Tenet's CIA.— AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
The ways in which the national dividend could strike off the shackles from the American system are virtually limitless.— Mises Dailies
In vain did the Proclamation of Emancipation break their shackles, and the constitutional amendment declare them free, if Congress should not "enforce" these important acts by "appropriate legislation The House of Representatives signified its view of the importance of this subject by constituting an able Committee "on Freedmen," with Thomas D. Eliot, of Massachusetts, as its chairman.— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States

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