But as their own freedoms have been fettered, they've begun finally reaching an audience they envisioned from the start.

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Yet, she and her call center compatriots are fettered by a system that neither enables nor encourages them to think outside the box.

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And Greece is one of Europe's most fettered economies, where politicians have piled up debt even in good times and treated the state as a source of pillage and patronage.

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But Judge Mr Justice Nicol found that Mr de Whalley had not shown that the councillors "fettered their discretion" or that their decision was one which "no reasonable authority could make".

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Stevenson's short life was spent, after Edinburgh, in ceaseless journeying, purportedly for the sake of his poor health periodically his lungs would bleed but probably also for some ease of spirit and to escape from the fettered Presbyterianism at home.

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