Sentences with phrase «shackles imposed»

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee should be holding a hearing on advancing America's, and the world's, energy future by initiating a sustained quest to break the economic shackles imposed by enduring dependence on oil (that doesn't involve using 40 percent of our corn crop to produce ethanol in a world facing food price spikes).

She's a bright - eyed starlet, eager to carve her place in the world despite the shackles imposed on her by her protective parents.

These changes should enable more strong research breakthroughs by freeing some research scientists from the shackles imposed on most of their counterparts in universities.

Not exact matches

But this pure business model is a self imposed shackle if the Fair Play Rule has no bite, and with the greasy Blatter sits on top, nothing will happen.

On Jan. 30, a slimmed - down Matthews, wearing prison greens, shackled hand and foot and escorted by a pair of state corrections officers, appeared briefly in the hallways of the Ulster County Courthouse en route to a holding pen where he was to await a hearing on his alleged failure to abide by restitution order imposed by the court last year as part of his sentence on two counts of grand larceny.

His friends are praying that he will throw off his self - imposed shackles and explain his Government's mission.

«The mountain of evidence we put on at trial proved — beyond any reasonable dispute — that the irrational, arbitrary and abominable laws at issue in this case shackle school districts and impose severe and irreparable harm on students,» he said, in a statement.

Teachers, finally released from these shackles, are now working their way through «freedom from» the imposed levels into the «freedom to» stage, where they can seize the opportunity and choose whatever measure of pupil attainment and progress they feel is most appropriate.

In a 2009 essay for the London Review of Books, Riley quoted the composer's words: «The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.»

Perhaps Harper has no intention to impose meaningful shackles on our oil and gas sector, thinking he can snooker Obama as thoroughly as others have.

The aim of these programs is not to persuade judges to impose more lenient (or harsher) sentences, but rather to come away with a better understanding of what happens once the prisoner is shackled and removed from one's courtroom.

This could just be the rallying cry that the orthographically challenged twelve - year - olds of the world have been waiting for, showing them that it is possible in adulthood to cast off the shackles that our oppressively conventional system of education is trying to impose upon them.

This event is hailed by billion - dollar producer Sandra Superseller as «casting off the last shackles of the servitude imposed on us by generations of fat - cat brokers.»