There used to be this strict edict, do the drums first, that sort of thing.
Not only were guests ordered to dress entirely in white, we had to abide by a series of strict edicts governing food, equipment and our general decorum.
He rose through the ranks of the Pakistan Taliban and in 2008, headed its vice and virtue department, enforcing strict edicts based on a narrow interpretation of Islamic texts.
But the group's strict edicts against music and dance presented a serious challenge to her and she recorded many of her songs and videos in Dubai.
"Tibetan Buddhism considers the snow leopard and its habitats strictly sacred, and the monks patrol wild landscapes surrounding monasteries to enforce strict edicts against killing wildlife .Until recently Tibet had a thriving trade in wild animal skins.
Their strict edicts are well known: beards for men, for women a life in the home (or under cover of their burqas, should they go out) and the banning of music and television.
What's going so spectacularly wrong with Beckett in the modern era is that the further time gets away from the original context of the scripts, the more the strict edicts of the Beckett estate trap the work in a mode of communication that's increasingly distant from its audience.
Jones knows personally how his strict edicts and unconventional leadership can divide families.
They have also issued strict edicts controlling the more mundane aspects of daily life, banning things like bras and soccer games in their territory.
Although Mr. Mandanipour's literary games occasionally make this book read like a Charlie Kaufman movie script run amok, his novel leaves the reader with a harrowing sense of what it is like to live in Tehran under the mullahs' rule, and the myriad ways in which the Islamic government's strict edicts on everything from clothing to relationships between the sexes permeate daily life.
They justify their strict edicts on marriage as being rooted in religious belief and say that their practices have prevented inbreeding and other health issues — claims disputed by their critics as wrongheaded and outdated because village populations are far larger today.
