Sentence examples for under strictures from inspiring English sources

The farmers who operate them do so under strictures (especially concerning ownership) that most farmers off the Point would find unacceptable.

Despite the enormous power she is said to wield with her husband, Jang Song-thaek, she belongs to a generation of North Korean women who lived under strictures regarding "proper behavior for socialist women": no smoking, no driving, no bicycling, and no trousers unless they worked in the fields.

Offices perpetuate the rigid strictures of masculinity.

When Sam interviews Clare, he draws her out at length on the problems of working as a writer under the strictures of the apartheid regime.

The 28-year-old was said to be distraught because, under the strictures of Ramadan, Muslims are not allowed to eat or drink during daylight hours.

(Also at work was the newer notion of particularist cultural ownership, under whose strictures Till's likeness should be off limits to a white artist like Schutz).

The company could not have done the Balanchine ballets under the strictures of Soviet official culture, with its deadening emphasis on Socialist realism.

Azhar Ramadan, a woman and a journalist chafing under the strictures of Iraqi society, should, at least in theory, be a supporter of American-led Westernization.

In March last year, after spending nearly two decades under the strictures of an IMF programme, Bolivia let its agreement with the fund end.

Not as long as fatuous, excusing pronouncements from the behavioral crowd, and indecisive bureaucracy, apparently walking on eggshells under legal strictures perceived to bar discipline, stymie the educational system.

Roland Petit, one of the world's major choreographers, was an unknown dancer chafing under the strictures of the Paris Opera Ballet when Ms. Lidova presented his first ballets with another young dancer-choreographer, Janine Charrat in 1943 and 1944.