Sentences with phrase «manacles of»

But if the error had been retained, the U.S. might have been bound by the manacles of international law into something important enough to be considered a treaty under the U.S. Constitution.

Every human being or animal desires to be free from the manacles of any restrictions that are subjected to his or her life.

When a person is put into the manacles of restrictions at different level, he starts feeling life as burden.

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

Two thousand years later, the lives of most people are still sadly crippled by the manacles of religion and the chains of spiritual blindness.

The pages are bound with cable ties, the manacle of choice for the modern military.

Not exact matches

Far from being biblical, the kind of control that stops spiritual growth seems to verge upon the sinful; it is to self - forge a manacle for one's soul.

He said that such torture, which he himself has experienced, includes sleep deprivation, the placing of manacles on the hands and feet, covering the head with wet sacks that are injected repeatedly with tear gas, and subjection to continuous hours of questioning.

With a wave of Uday's arm the manacled boxer was led into the room by Iraqi secret service.

When it comes to absent fathers who could afford to support their children and opt not to, out of selfishness, spite or manipulative motives, I will happily join David Davies MP in a fantasy involving manacles and some medieval flogging.

Article 94 of the 1992 Constitution, a cornerstone of participatory democracy or a manacle on freedom of contract and association?

In a non-specific metropolis not unlike New York City, a horrifyingly fat man is found dead, manacled and face down in a plate of spaghetti.

«Gerald's Game» is a ravenously sinister reaping of interiorized horror and Mike Flanagan trickles it with cautionary black humor (such as when the Viagra side effect is cardiac arrest and Jessie Burlingame (Carla Gugino) is still manacled akimbo to the bed posts and the front door is ajar).

They'd looped around the back of the compound, met more manacled gardeners and orderlies, many hoeing a dark loam against the rear wall.

The human cargo was chained and manacled in the hold, where they rolled to the left and then back to the right, their rotations determined by the undulating waves, but on each occasion that the vessel dipped, the cargo received the blessing of a libation of slime.

The shackles of slavery, Edinburgh's sugar trade links, Blake's mind - forged manacles: so many histories are embodied in this poor broken nude.

But in fact her head is lolling from a muckle chain — instead of a spine, this woman has marble manacles.

Includes candid personality shots (playing tennis at home, dressed as a pirate in manacles, etc.) and film portraits and scenes from Montana Moon, Rain, Today We Live, Ice Follies of 1939, Johnny Guitar, Autumn Leaves and more.

We must manacle these mediums for the sake of expression itself....