Sentence examples for official constraints from inspiring English sources

It's awkward to promote art officially by claiming that it is free from official constraints, and it is especially awkward if the art is, in fact, unpopular.

They were told to write freely, without fear of official constraints or oversight.

As the least overtly political of the arts, it suffered less from official constraints.

Mo Yan's fate is to operate on the edge of official constraints; the novel, nearly a half-million words long as first published in 1996 in China, has undergone trimming and rearrangement right up to this translation, based upon "a further shortened, computer-generated manuscript supplied by the author".

In Beijing, one is constantly struck by the tension between old and new, between official constraints and the striving for artistic freedom.

He and his associates suffered public hostility and official constraint.

He supported the nurses, followed events in Latin America closely and maintained a political fund freed from official Labour party constraints which could be used creatively in the wider interests of his membership.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye was also willing to meet with the North Korean officials Saturday, though he wasn't available because of time constraints, officials said in the statement.

Georgia officials said budget constraints and other outbreaks of food-borne illnesses diminished their abilities to inspect the peanut plants.

But officials say time constraints, not political considerations, sidelined those options, although the sightseeing agenda remained intact.

The government has hired only about 9,000 Awakening members for the security forces, with officials blaming budget constraints.