Sentence examples for rigid control over from inspiring English sources

For ordinary people, administrative centralization and politically sanctioned Reformation had the effect of imposing more rigid control over their lives.

The Nazi regime, having exercised rigid control over Germany's cultural institutions, had forced any art deviating from an explicitly nationalist agenda underground for the duration of the war.

Prosecutors later said the attack was the work of a gang of youths who had been enlisted by correction officers to help maintain rigid control over the unit.

The Hutu make up about 85% of the population but the Tusi exercise rigid control over the country: 85% of the high-school & university students are said to be Tutsi; 99% of the Army is Tutsi.

Publicists and studios exerted rigid control over stars' lives, and tried to control reporting about them, because general social standards of behavior were, at least in the public realm, stringently moralistic and harshly judgmental.

While the public may like the idea of rigid control over when officers have to begin video recording, they may not appreciate that lack of discretion when they are the ones being filmed.

North Korea does not have an independent judiciary, does not provide fair trials and imposes rigid controls over many aspects of its citizens' lives, including in religious matters, according to the US State department.

He did pledge to adhere to more rigid controls over announcements of construction in East Jerusalem, carrying from meeting to meeting here a diagram that he said laid out how much red tape Israelis must go through before they could expand housing there.

The people could not choose their government, which "subjected citizens to rigid controls over many aspects of their lives, including denial of the freedoms of speech, press, assembly, association, religion, movement, and worker rights.

Women associated the weight gain on 'me' with self-control, but paradoxically, pregnancy was also perceived to be a time when rigid controls over eating behaviours could be relaxed.

That previous incident triggered a highly-charged debate over the country's censorship and rigid control of the Internet.