Sentence examples for restrictive conventions from inspiring English sources

Working with his long-term collaborator and partner, John Cage, who died in 1992, he set about freeing dance from its restrictive conventions.

Her great-great-grandfather, Henry Taylor, born in 1823 and fathered by his white master, was so skilled in his trade as a carpenter and contractor that his father allowed him to travel widely throughout his home state of North Carolina, pursuing his trade, in defiance of the restrictive conventions of slavery.

Is it merely a case of bad manners or is he trying to show us he's still a rebel in the midst of middle age, proving that society's restrictive conventions of propriety and decorum could never hope to tame the carefree beast within his greying, balding body?

"The fact that Cleveland felt the need to institute this 3-mile zone flies in the face of what they claim to be the 'least restrictive convention rules' that we've seen," David said.

July 1 , 1915Covina, California March 26 , 1979White Plains, New York Jean Stafford, (born July 1 , 1915 Covina, California, U.S. died March 26 , 1979 White Plains, New York), American short-story writer and novelist noted for her disaffected female characters, who often must confront restrictive societal conventions and institutions as they come of age.

In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce wrote a Modernist bildungsroman in which the young, developing scholar-artist Stephen Dedalus emerges from the restrictive religious and linguistic conventions within which he has been raised, able, as he says, "to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race".

Like many aging artists, writers, and musicians, he became increasingly liberated in his later career from the conventions and restrictive rules that dominate the work of the young creator struggling to gain a reputation and acceptance.

However, there are built-in flexibilities that allow the use of genetic test results for future scientific developments, and it is in this regard less restrictive than the Oviedo Convention [ 61].

Paul, where local officials were hoping to avoid complaints, heard in 2004 after the Democratic convention in Boston and the Republican convention in New York, that restrictive security arrangements had nearly locked down the convention sites.

The legal foundations in many Asian states are strengthened and orientate towards the UN refugee conventions, while the restrictive rich East Asian economies have begun to realise their responsibilities.

And a federal judge has ruled that the police department's initial plan to keep demonstrators fenced far away from the entrance to the Democratic National Convention was unconstitutionally restrictive.