Sentence examples for strictures of class from inspiring English sources

In many ways, William and Kate's marriage can be read as a thoroughly modern affair – they cohabited before taking the plunge; they are equally well-educated; their love for each other overrode the old strictures of class.

Returning home in 1930, having succeeded in the exams for the Indian Civil Service, he snoozed as the boat eased into Bombay Roads, tired perhaps after a farewell party on board, the passengers in fancy dress the strictures of class and color relaxed by the solvent of travel.

Returning home in 1930, having succeeded in the exams for the Indian Civil Service, he snoozed as the boat eased into Bombay Roads, tired perhaps after a farewell party on board, the passengers in fancy dress — the strictures of class and color relaxed by the solvent of travel.

The ability to rise above the strictures of race, nation, class and the myriad constraints that regulate our behaviour and take the consequences for living your life as you see fit.

It was there that he began to develop what his high-school coach, Kurt Keener, called his "chameleon ability" to mediate the unyielding strictures of race and class, fitting in with much wealthier classmates and fighting off criticism that he was getting a cushy ride while others -- the fatherless Rose, for instance -- had to struggle their way out of the ghetto.

She reflects, "In America she is freed from these strictures of her social class so rigidly enforced when she is home.

Maybe the actuaries are finding that they can't make the numbers work within the strictures of the statute, so Class has to go back to Congress?

In Constant Touch, his history of the mobile phone, Jon Agar sets the rise of mobiles in the context of rising self-expression and declining strictures of state control and class inhibition.

Ms. Rosler spent a dozen years in southern California from the late 60's to the early 80's, a time she says was immensely important to her. "I lost my New York provinciality," she says, "and was let loose from the strictures of being a middle-class Brooklyn Jew".

Micromanaging university admissions, as the British government has been trying to do on grounds of class, with targets, quotas, fines and strictures, risks the same consequences as similar American experiments based on racial preference.

Born in Detroit on Feb. 2, 1925, to devoutly Catholic parents, Stritch chafed against the strictures of the church and middle-class life.