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Example sentences for: hidebound

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One is hidebound, stiff, silent in the face of media criticism.
The romantic idea is that the combination of real free trade, the Internet, and modern telecommunications will eventually bring down the hidebound political and economic structures that still rule China.
I have few data to support me, and my stamina are not up to long, tedious research, but I have a hunch that media —the main agendum on many a pedant's plate these days—is well on its way to becoming a standard singular noun, except perhaps among hidebound literati and intransigent intelligentsia on various university campi, in style books, and in other blessed receptacles of holy semantic writ.
It is unsurprising that the Navy, generally regarded as the most hidebound branch of the military (and the one most resistant to ending racial segregation), found a compelling need, in the national interest and for essential military purposes that you wouldn't understand, to sustain a reactionary social policy.
Executives are often too close to problems or too hidebound in their thinking to produce new solutions.