It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
These gold chains and pendants I've been collecting from 1975. None of them are new and mostly - Hare Krishna Hare Rama, Ganpati, Satyanarayan, Hanuman - all god-related pendants.
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks - its touch can break the stoutest chains.
When the vision of the 'Nude' flashed upon me, I knew that it would break forever the enslaving chains of Naturalism.
Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.
We know how to stop Ebola: by isolating and treating patients, tracing and monitoring their contacts, and breaking the chains of transmission.
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry.
Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.
In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.