Sentence examples for restrictive notion from inspiring English sources

The very fact of collective living, of rejecting an astoundingly restrictive notion of normality (using a mobile, living in cities, being easily observable by the police) has itself become incriminating.

Odets rapidly found himself in a double-bind: as America in the early 1940s shifted its energies from class warfare to world warfare, Odets tried to liberate himself from the restrictive notion of art as activism – and was promptly accused of selling out.

Sometimes an even more restrictive notion of "Arrovian social choice" is used to name works which faithfully adopt Arrow's particular axioms.

The attraction of Cartesianism is that it recognizes in a way the behaviourist does not that there may be crucial differences between creatures who on a certain restrictive notion of behaviour do indeed behave identically.

Though this is seemingly a more restrictive notion, the existence of this one-partition version is equivalent to that of a general paradoxical decomposition, provided that (mathcal {S}) contains the unit (of ({mathcal A}) or (widetilde{{mathcal A}})).

One novel aspect of our treatment is the careful distinction, in both the geometric setting and the algebraic setting, between the notion of amenability and the somewhat more restrictive notion of proper amenability, which, as described in Definition 1, asks for a Følner net that is exhaustive.

They are obsessed by their restrictive notions of doctor-patient confidentiality.

Mr. Springsteen gave the convention's keynote speech, retelling his own musical evolution and rejecting any restrictive notions of authenticity.

Hairstylist Camille Friend was vital to the success of this project ― essential to creating a world in which black hair is assertive and unbound by restrictive notions of respectability. .

But spend enough time alone in a race and you see how restrictive that notion is.

That may sound like a contradiction, since "radical" is usually shorthand for the far left, but the seeming contradiction demonstrates how restrictive our notion of the right-left political spectrum really is, and that's perhaps the most important thing we can learn from looking to our European roots.