For a typical 19th-century Southern man, the code of honor tightly prescribed public behavior and masculine conduct.
The X Factor may run along tightly prescribed lines with goodies, baddies and Simon Cowell as the panto villain, but this year, despite everything, there's a dash of reality.
The sprinter does not tackle any old 100m, but, rather, the idea of 100m: encompassing a standardised and tightly prescribed strip of territory.
As soon as they close, workers in each center, using a tightly prescribed protocol, will push tables together and begin to count.
The OECD, a rich-country think-tank, suggests that children taught in autonomous schools do better than those who attend schools where teaching is tightly prescribed.
To the extent that such painterly composition was possible before, it was stylized: Vivaldi's "Seasons" unfold with tightly prescribed harmonic relationships, and even avant-garde moments like the chaotic opening of Haydn's "Creation" resolve into comfortable tonality.
This is a story of how a group of middle managers moved beyond just implementing their firm's tightly prescribed strategy for developing an international venture to the point where it could be argued that they failed to accomplish the four clear strategic objectives set by the firm's executive management.
"In tightly prescribed circumstances, law enforcement and security services should be able to seek to obtain unencrypted data from communications service providers.
Our systems in terms of who we sell arms to are very tightly prescribed by a regime that was actually set up by (Labour foreign secretary) Robin Cook in 2000.
It used to be that gender roles were more tightly prescribed in marriage.
