Sentence examples for strictures imposed from inspiring English sources

But there are also the strictures imposed on women by the Aqim mujahideen.

The federation blamed the strictures imposed by the government for "a long-term economic slowdown".

Even before he was ordained, Pfleger bridled against the strictures imposed by the Catholic Church.

His words to reporters sounded like pushback against the strictures imposed by Tortorella.

These various strictures imposed on doctors and their patients worked for about half a decade.

Those who recoil at the carnage, or object to the religious strictures imposed at gunpoint, are treated as apostates.

However, New York's 1916 Zoning Resolution – unlike London's late-Victorian stricture – imposed only formal patterning on skyscrapers, and a fixed ratio between plot size and tower footprint, rather than restricting height per se.

It seems a feat of orthographical wizardry that 63 clauses are crammed in here, among them a groundbreaking stricture imposing limits on the king's authority, and the trail-blazing injunction that no man can be imprisoned, outlawed, or dispossessed except "by judgement of his equals or the law of the land".

The new strictures were imposed even as regulations in the last decade began to yield results.

(It is discreditable to refuse to allow women to drive whether that stricture is imposed in San Antonio or Saudi Arabia: sexism is sexism).

Now, the Turkish Football Federation has passed new strictures that impose transfer embargoes and fines for clubs who do not pay on time.