Sentence examples for hidebound from inspiring English sources

The first task is to reform the way the Bank of England deals with the banking system – the most conservative and hidebound relationship in any advanced industrialised country.

It didn't meander through years of hidebound committee meetings.

Nobody's hidebound by tradition, and restaurants such as Saison and Benu, both newly-blessed (or cursed) with the full three Michelin stars as of this October, are as likely to chuck out the tablecloths as they are to marry Asian flavours to intensive French techniques.

That Brazil is producing women like Ms Bastos Marques or Ms Rousseff or Ms Foster offers proof that a country which less than 30 years ago was still run by hidebound generals is making dramatic progress.

Although it sold its mobile-phone operations in 2010, Toshiba's hidebound top managers have avoided exiting its unprofitable television and personal-computer businesses to rein in the conglomerate's sprawl.

This gap helps to explain why Spain has been able to defend its market share in world trade even though it has become less competitive on gauges like relative unit-labour costs.Whether the economy rides out the euro-area crisis will depend on which Spain prevails the more competitive version or the hidebound one.

Indeed and from the corrupt, hidebound system that created China's worst diplomat, promoting him and indulging his failures, until the last one.

In theory, this should open doors for him; in practice, he encounters obstacles everywhere, as he bumps up against Japan's hidebound ways.As a result, he is learning little about the topic.

But the innovative architecture of some new mosques also challenges stereotypes about a faith hidebound by history.In this section Chips off the old block Privateers Not a curve out of place ReprintsGermany's new mosques have the liveliest designs in Europe, according to Azra Aksamija, an architectural historian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Unlike most senior communists, he was not pompous, bullying or hidebound: you could easily believe that he was just another human being, not a defender of a system based on lies and mass murder.Mr Rakowski did a less impressive job, however, dealing with the people who would eventually run Poland.

Others have been dissuaded from applying by hidebound teachers and careers advisers, who deter them from aspiring to such things.