Sentence examples for strictures that from inspiring English sources

He did not warm to the strictures that went with his onerous training schedule.

And the religious police have regularly cracked down on women who defy the strictures that govern appearance.

And while many Afghans complain about Islamic strictures that seem medieval, they have praised the Taliban for eliminating crime.

Larcher is an unpredictable, freethinking composer, who has set aside the modernist strictures that have long governed Central European music.

But Cardinal O'Brien has broken with other strictures that are common among conservatives in the church hierarchy.

Such cross-dressing was viewed by Puritans as a violation of biblical strictures that went far beyond issues of costuming.

Under Communism, the thicket of strictures that governed almost every aspect of life was considered so inane that only fools were thought to abide by them.

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

He decided he didn't want to be perceived as a black painter, with the strictures that could impose; for that reason he went with an ethnically neutral abstraction.

Omar accepted international food and medical aid and allowed United Nations humanitarian-relief operations, but he imposed strictures that limited their effectiveness.

Pryor's comedy was a high-wire act: how to stay funny to a black audience while satirizing the moral strictures that make black American life like no other.