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Example sentences for: strictures

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That most of the forbidden words of the 1950s are no longer forbidden will come as news to nobody: The steady debasement of the common language is only one of many social strictures that have loosened from the previous generation to the current.
They don't hanker for the old family order or want to put women back in ancient strictures, but neither do they endorse the left's "anything goes" morality.
Needless to say, the Federalist essays do not meet the simple strictures of the Plain Language Initiative.
This custom suggests new stages in the old rebellion against religious strictures, which once demanded that female hair--divinely ordained to be long and seductive--be covered up lest it incite lust.
This rather disparate group is tied together by a desire to resist the strictures of studio filmmaking and to advertise that resistance to a discerning audience.