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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ordinary citizens are in political fetters , unable to control their own lives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He soon leaves for a tour of the Continent, with no specific destination, since genius despises fetters .
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His legs seemed lashed together like a great horse in fetters .
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The man's clothing had been reduced to rags and he was loaded with fetters .
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Then I felt freed, as if I were untying fetters .
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Why should we drag about with us the fetters of the discredited thinking of the past?