Fetter 1100 Words You Need
Fetter 1100 Words You Need
/ˈfet.əʳ/ (noun & verb)
Verb
- to limit someone’s freedom, prevent someone from doing what they really wish, restrain, constrain, impede, hamper, obstruct, thwart, preclude, confine
- to shackle someone with fetters, bind and tie someone especially a prisoner with chains, chain
Noun: chain, shackle, yoke, handcuff
Japanese-language records of debates between policy makers in 1999, after a decade of reform, show that they continued hold to a ‘mental model’ of a political economy that was of the preceeding high growth period and, indeed, much further in Japan’s past. Such key figures as Prime Minister Obuchi Keizō argued both for the inculcation of greater market competition and, at the same time, lamented the loss of Japan’s former ‘virtuous capitalism’. In other words, fettered by the past, they prepared Japan for the future.
Source: https://ideas.repec.org/
The use of bar fetters and chains as instruments of restraint and punishment of prisoners is permitted under Pakistan law in specific circumstances, but fetters – both bar fetters and cross fetters – are also frequently used unlawfully as instruments of torture in Pakistan’s prisons, particularly by wardens who wish to intimidate or humiliate prisoners or to extract money from them.
Source: https://www.amnesty.org/
Suppressing civil liberties under democratic dispensations is an anathema to the very ethos of democracy. Civil liberties form the bedrock for democracy and characterise a civilised state in the modern world. Fettering civil liberties would have deleterious repercussions for the future of democracy.
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/
Antonym: indulge
Farsi: محدود کردن، زنجیر
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