hidebound

How To Use hidebound In A Sentence

• It's as if we are back in that newspaper office of 10 years ago, when Riddoch, unschooled in the resistant bureaucracy of getting out a daily paper, tried to change hidebound attitudes too quickly for comfort.
• The philosophes criticized the ancien regime of religious superstition and dogmatism, hidebound social traditions, and repressive morality.
• Whether the conservative, hidebound publishing establishment will treat such works with the seriousness they deserve is of course another matter.
• Life with the Leighs was not hidebound by rules or convention.
• This is the kind of step that is quite often made in science by a junior researcher, not yet hidebound by tradition.
• Educators in Ghana are aware that they must rid universities of hidebound thinking to produce more technically literate graduates who produce more for employers and Ghana's economy.
• It would stimulate overdue reform of hidebound institutions, whether regulatory bodies or royal colleges.
• He confirms the privately expressed belief of many ministers that they are battling against a civil service hidebound by more than a century of tradition.
• He was in one sense a classical, Renaissance playwright, but his was a classicism that used and abused the classics rather than felt itself hidebound by them.
• The economy was hidebound by public spending and private monopolies.