Sentence examples for a strict community from inspiring English sources

Along with operating the canal and collecting shipping tolls, it ran a strict community police force, built housing and managed the environment.

According to the received history, the Cistercian order was founded in Cîteaux, France, in 1098 by a group of Benedictine monks who wished for a stricter community.

Lambert grew up in a strict Pentecostal community near Seattle.

The woman, known as J, grew up in a strict haredi community, an insular subset of ultra-Orthodox Jewry, in north Manchester.

Overstreet first encountered Movieguide in the late nineteen-eighties, as a high schooler growing up in a strict Baptist community in Oregon.

Bess, a member of a strict religious community on the Isle of Skye, marries an oil worker named Jan; when he suffers a paralyzing accident, he asks her to have sex with other men.

Adopted into a strict evangelical community, Winterson presents a fallen world — angels literally crash to earth, at least in Xeno's computer game — where a poetic marriage of realism and fantasy offers the best hope for redemption.

Landis, who was brought up in a strict Mennonite community in Pennsylvania, won the 2006 Tour de France but tested positive for high levels of testosterone and was stripped of the title.

And Auslander described his boyhood in a strict Orthodox community in upstate New York as akin to one in the seventeenth century, except "everyone's wearing formal wear, all the time".

Over the next decade, Mr. Wilcox and his wife, Daeida, conjured out of the desert a strict Christian community of orchards and Victorian cottages, connected to Los Angeles by a lone streetcar line.

Though there is never any doubt as to whether the title character, a rather spineless young man raised in a strict Hasidic community, will be able to resist the lure of secular New York City, Mr. Vardy resists mocking the way of life Mendy is leaving behind and forces him to carry a heavy sackful of regret for most of the way.