Sentence examples for parental strictures from inspiring English sources

There are times when I'd be undeterred by parental strictures.

Anonymous, Maryland Providing this boy a refuge from parental strictures you find excessive -- no boy-girl parties?

They treat a serious subject — abuse, persecution, pathology — with crude humor and raw imagery, and subvert a form of entertainment associated with the childhood thrill of defying parental strictures about "good" and "bad" books.

Pious shopkeepers looked on with pride and dismay as some of their most brilliant and ambitious children made a great show of casting off parental strictures and the fetters of custom and claiming their individualist American birthright.

Highly educated, lacking the means to marry or acquire their own apartment, dodging parental reproach and dour governmental strictures, dissatisfied but not to the point of rebellion, this young couple is typical enough of a nation in a halfway house of Islam and modernity.

Young people who are striving towards independence from parental restraints can resent reminders or strictures regarding their health, even when they understand the importance of these; parents on the other hand can allow anxiety about their child's health to interfere with their more adaptive parenting strategies.

Why these strictures?

Similar strictures afflict teaching.

Parental choice?

Parental relations improve.

He is also frustrated by those strictures.