Sentence examples for were not allowed to study from inspiring English sources

Smart, curious and eager to learn, she persuades her old-fashioned parents to let her go to school in a nearby city disguised as a boy, as girls were not allowed to study.

As NAACP youth director, Parks helped black teenagers organize protests at the city's segregated main public library because the library for blacks had fewer (and more outdated) books, but blacks were not allowed to study at the main branch or browse through its stacks.

Mr. Paasche, as a Jew, was not allowed to study law, and studied oriental languages instead.

I want to become a doctor, but Rohingya are not allowed to study medicine," says James.

"At school in the 1970s I was not allowed to study tech drawing, woodwork or metalwork," shesays.

At present long-term prisoners and lifers are not allowed to study for a degree until they are six years from a release date.

She had finished high school but was not allowed to study far away from home, ending any opportunity to further education.

Despite being enrolled on an OU master's degree programme, he was not allowed to study full time and given access to a computer for only four hours a week.

It takes on different forms, like if a woman is not allowed to study, to go to college, despite being a good student, or if there's control over a woman and she can't even go to the doctor because her husband is away at the time".

After the Soviet invasion and occupation of Eastern Poland, he was not allowed to study at the Polytechnic as he wished because of his "bourgeois origin" and only due to his father's connections was accepted to study medicine at Lwów University in 1940.

Bethia Mayfield, the 12-year-old daughter of a young minister, enjoys a 17th century childhood on the beautiful, wild island of Martha's Vineyard and sees evidence of this arrogance all around her. She's not allowed to study like her brothers even though she is smarter than the lot of them.