Sentence examples for bound by a self-imposed from inspiring English sources

The experiment was bound by a self-imposed rule: no personal electronics like iPods, portable DVD players or laptops.

He spent his teenage years sniffing loudly and violently, bound by a self-imposed injunction to avoid the top step of any flight of stairs, and recalls experiencing the irresistible urge, while learning to drive at 18, to "close my eyes for as long as I could get away with it".

It suggests that the current approach to universal service reforms continues to be bound by the self-imposed limitations of a past regulatory era, and that a heterogeneous universal service policy is likely to be more suited to the new telecommunications environment.

The deal is to be finalized by a self-imposed deadline of 30 June.

"This wasn't a dry run so I can run for something else," Mr. Russo said, adding that he would abide by a self-imposed term limit.

Surprisingly, it's the guy rather than the girl in this book who is bound by a family-imposed chastity ring.

Mr. Liu's figures were increased by his decision last month to lift a self-imposed cap of $800 and permit donors to give him the legal maximum of $4,950.

Soon after he was sidelined by a foot injury, then took a self-imposed rest from the game that was extended for personal reasons.

The president said that the corruption investigations were part of an attempted coup by Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who is in a self-imposed exile in the US.

A self-imposed ban on keeping her iPhone by her bedside wasn't really working, she told The Huffington Post.

But they failed to meet a self-imposed deadline as major weapons exporting countries, led by the United States, raised objections.