Sentence examples for restrictive ideas from inspiring English sources

Surveying the history shelves in a Waterstones offers a chastening look at the degree to which popular history perpetuates restrictive ideas about gender, class and ethnicity.

Her character, Valentine, is a young woman who grew up in India but is sent to England; her escape to war is also an escape from the restrictive ideas of her time.

On an island filled with first-, second- and third-generation Americans, the former policeman invoked the past to defend Trump's restrictive ideas of building a wall and banning Muslims.

But even in the early twentieth century, when Jews were known for toughness (see Siegel, Bugsy; Rosenbloom, Slapsie Maxie) the stereotypical Jewish mother used what Joseph Nye would call soft power, wrapping specific and restrictive ideas about her children's future in a nurturing bosom.

Achieving these goals has often involved arguing that certain kinds of encounters that have previously not been socially or legally recognized as rape should be so recognized thus, challenging overly restrictive ideas (often encoded in law) about what counts as rape (Burgess-Jackson 1996, 77-86; Sanday 1996, 161-183; Bevacqua 2000).

"UNLOCKED is basically an ode to dismantling restrictive ideas around art and life," says Bambii.

And that's the better reason to "check your privilege" – not from some restrictive idea about how authentic you are, or whether you've endured the hardship to qualify as a progressive voice, but because not all prejudice is extinguished – some of it is just displaced.

A non-tariff barrier might be any national policy thought to be "trade-restrictive," the idea being that such barriers constitute protectionism by other means — an indirect discrimination on the basis of national origin.

The "wide corridor" nature of his games always comes off to me as very restrictive, and while the ideas are sound, they're not always fun.

It's bizarre to me that there are people who think that those ideas are restrictive, or somehow how... part of some overarching, governmental conspiracy.

As premises go, the idea of a school for witches is so broad and versatile that it's a shame to think we'll only get one season of it while the big four networks will increasingly try and develop long-running shows around restrictive, narrow and frustrating ideas.