tied up

For almost all of his 16 months in captivity he says he was tied up - first with ropes to his wrists and ankles, then with iron chains.

Three individuals have claimed to have been the rightful owner of the ball, and the matter remains tied up in Florida’s 11th Judicial Circuit Court.

In 2010, while at his home in Johannesburg, he was stabbed by intruders, then tied up and interrogated.

The idea that female bodies are made unclean by vaccines is all tied up in a larger sexist view that good women stay at home and avoid too much contact with the outside world.

Gosdinski’s stake in the historic amusement remains tied up in Los Angeles County probate court, where Gosdinski’s mother and sister are vying with another owner for control, records show.