Fetter in a sentence as a noun

Only the fetter for the thousand necks is still lacking; there is lacking one goal.

So it is not wise to fetter your mathematics with the chains of physical constraints.

What constraints do you have in mind to fetter the lawful activities of very rich people?

Keep in mind that standards, at least in my experience, don't fetter education.

When there is enough wisdom from awareness the fetter of ignorance breaks.

This is called a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a writhing of views, a fetter of views.

Bound by a fetter of views, [you] don't gain freedom from birth, aging, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, or despair.

"Altruism" is a cheap emotional fetter; one that very few people want to stand against for fear of being labeled an ogre and demonized by society.

Fetter in a sentence as a verb

" the Buddha included it in a list of dead-end questions that lead to "a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion, a writhing, a fetter of views.

Bound by a fetter of views, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person is not freed from birth, aging, & death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair.

Selling heroin is a very good example of how unfettered free market capitalism leads to circumstances where people sell things that are harmful to their customers.

CS attracted me because of the possibility to improve civilization for the better by advancing science.- Money is freedom to an extent, then it becomes a fetter.- You don't even have to read his book.

It is not in the power of one nation, however formidably armed, still less is it in the power of a small group of men, violent, ruthless men, who have always to cast their eyes back over their shoulders, to cramp and fetter the forward march of human destiny.

To demand that such officers be so sensitive to the nuances of complex situations that they must interrupt their activites and rush to the nearest available magistrate to seek a warrant would seriously fetter the Executive in the performance of his foreign affairs duties.

Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compels all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own.

"Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own.

Fetter definitions

noun

a shackle for the ankles or feet

See also: hobble

verb

restrain with fetters

See also: shackle