unshackle

Example Sentences

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For John Higgs, author of the new book “Love and Let Die,” this confluence of events is its own neutron bomb, the moment when England found itself confronted with two opposing views of itself: Bond a metaphor for a colonial power clinging to the last vestiges of its brawn in the wake of the Second World War, and a younger generation of Beatles fans poised to unshackle itself from all the Empire stood for, particularly its notions of class and privilege.

From Los Angeles Times

And he fathered Virginia Woolf, who would go on to unshackle the written word from the constraints of time.

From Los Angeles Times

The British government and the Bank of England are reforming insurers' capital rules, seen as a post-Brexit test of UK willingness to unshackle the City of London after leaving the European Union.

From Reuters

Lynch urged Transport Secretary Anne Marie Trevelyan to “unshackle the train operators who currently take their mandate directly from yourself.”

From Seattle Times

But he said "for this to be achieved, your government must unshackle the train operators who currently take their mandate directly from yourself".

From BBC