Sentence examples for despite the strictures of from inspiring English sources

Despite the strictures of Islam, Turkey's predominant religion, the largest-selling newspapers routinely display photographs of seminude women in the style of British tabloids.

Quite apart from the endless physical barriers, some of them quite newly installed despite the strictures of the Equalities Act, disabled people are often isolated by the embarrassment of the rest of us.

Despite the strictures of the doges, Venetian workmen succumbed to the temptation to carry the secrets of their craft to other cities, and, by the middle of the 17th century, mirror making was practiced extensively in London and Paris.

And how sad to realize, twenty minutes or so into Athol Fugard's 1961 drama, "Blood Knot" (in revival, at the Signature Theatre Company), that, despite the brothers' cloistered domestic intimacy, they are still separated by the strictures of race.

But nor did he follow the strictures of pure flamenco.

Minorities aren't exempt from the strictures of collective responsibility.

The strictures of this style of thought are indeed very old.

"Men suffer more" from the strictures of gender, Fonda told the New York Times.

None of them took the strictures of faith very seriously or knew many of its teachings.

Moreover, they were never bound by the strictures of stadium pop.

But their expertise is often muted by the strictures of a prime-time broadcast.