The phrase "restrictive society" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to a society that imposes or enforces restrictive rules, practices, or traditions on its members. For example, "In an increasingly restrictive society, young people feel more pressure than ever to conform and be successful."
"South Africa in the early 1970s was a very restrictive society," says Stephen Seger-man, a former Johannesburg jeweller who made it his mission to track down Rodriguez.
It is a wildly expressive dance performed to the driving rhythms of drums and the chants of men, and provides a rare outlet for women to unleash their passions in a restrictive society.
Many of them now know that they live in a poor and highly restrictive society, and they are also increasingly aware that their South Korean brethren enjoy unbelievable levels of affluence and individual freedom.
The students in the elite sahib school where Kim is sent against his will are abusive, snobby, racist, part of a restrictive society that pales before Kim's experiences of India.
But somehow Judith and I were speaking about Schubert and Solomon Sulzer — the little opened window those two men created in a very restrictive society, a window that, if Schubert could have lived, might have lead to even more contact between differing traditions.
Here's one reason: because in the same way Eliot's 19th-century heroine Dorothea Brooke — and many real 19th-century women — were trying to break free of a restrictive society, so is Eliot trying to break out of her own 19th-century novel, the limitations of it, and show us that she is free.
They're none too friendly with their neighbours either, though they usually have a few close drinking companions to share their misogyny and unfashionable views on liberal, over-restrictive society.
But I will say that it was not as restrictive a society, on an hourly basis, for a tourist like me, as you might expect.
To the argument that Mr. Anderson's plays are dated, Mr. Gurney said: "He wrote about the restrictive roles society asks us to play, and the people who cannot fulfill themselves within those roles and those standards; we don't have to be what the world asks us to be -- and how do we reconcile our own integrity with those demands".
The International Centre for Non-Profit Law found that 36percentt of restrictive civil society laws enacted globally between 2012 and 2015 targeted international funding.
Aside from the fact that he can rarely get alcohol to drink, he doesn't seem to get just how restrictive this society can be.
