Sentence examples for violate strictures from inspiring English sources

That, however, would violate strictures against infinitely many primitive predicates in the regimented language; and it wouldn't be of much help in paraphrasing numerical comparisons such as "there are as many holes in this piece of cheese as there are crackers on this plate".

Emanuel couldn't complain directly to Holder without violating strictures against political interference in prosecutorial decisions.

Bybee asserted that the president was within his legal rights to permit his military surrogates to inflict "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment on prisoners without violating strictures against torture.

Tea Party Republicans speak obsessively about how contemporary politicians, especially President Obama, violate the strictures of the Constitution.

When he finds himself in the vicinity of a dog food factory, he worries about inhaling tiny particles that violate the strictures of his religion.

As long as you did not leap to your feet and denounce the beliefs of others or violate the strictures of the congregation -- you could not, for example, have taken Communion -- surely at such a moment you may follow the dictates of your conscience.

By promising to implement strict new banking and charitable regulations and by vowing today to prosecute individuals and organizations that violate those strictures, the Saudis are signaling to the West that they understand the gravity of the terrorist threat here, one Western diplomat who was involved in the talks said.

After all, his father kicked him out of the family home because Mr. Roberts had violated Mormon strictures by having sex with a girlfriend.

They either had to ban the opera and alienate Germany's leading composer (as they had alienated many other artists) or had to violate their own strictures.

Although I am nonobservant and not particularly stylish or athletic, it is curiously liberating to learn that I would violate no religious strictures if I were to wear mascara while playing football.

Several members of the TriBeCa committee of the local community board, Community Board 1, objected to the move, arguing that it was too small a park and that a sukkah might violate First Amendment strictures against the establishment of religion.