Sentence examples for by seclusion from inspiring English sources

A woman's testimony in court is worth half that of a man, and her independence is restricted by seclusion in the home, laws of guardianship by male kin, polygamy and unilateral divorce.

Architectural critic Calum Storrie describes the overall effect: What the Getty Villa achieves, first by seclusion, then by control of access, and ultimately through the architecture, is a sense of detachment from its immediate environment.

In addition staff members estimated the restriction of human rights by seclusion and mechanical restraint in general.

The most frequent type of coercion was pure seclusion (31%), followed by seclusion + medication p.o. (25%), seclusion + mechanical restraint (9%), seclusion + forced injection (7%), open-door seclusion (7%), seclusion + mechanical restraint + medication p.o. (5%), forced injection (4%), seclusion + mechanical restraint + forced injection (3%).

Such a display of privacy is almost performance art these days, though Bowie seems motivated not by paranoid seclusion but simply by the desire to work without unwanted feedback.

- You may sense that your child mostly remains silent and lonely by preferring seclusion and avoiding almost everyone.

Another resident, nicknamed Monkey, seeks maximum seclusion by inhabiting islands.

After her mother's death, Evelina is brought up in rural seclusion by the kindly Rev Arthur Villars.

Victory, Conrad's last major novel, tells of Baron Heyst's attempt to avoid the emotional perils of human society by living in seclusion.

They are being selected in seclusion by their peers in the Party, and the new leaders will be unveiled to the public with great fanfare.

He has made public promises of payments to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, and broken his years of seclusion by meeting in Baghdad with a succession of Arab emissaries and journalists.