How To Use Hidebound In A Sentence
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Let's not be hidebound by tradition and calendars.
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The steps he took might appear simple and obvious in hindsight, but they were far from easy at a hidebound institution seemingly intent on writing its own obituary.
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There can be no sport more regulated, and no sport more hidebound by an inflexible adherence to the rule book.
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The depressing part was that the hidebound attitudes of the British officer class haven't changed much in more than 80 years.
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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.
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But there is more to the backlash than hidebound resistance to change.
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In rural Sicily, where local Catholic traditions have remained stronger, women are more hidebound by traditional mores regarding the sexes.
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It's an insane effort, smacking of majoritarian tyranny and aggressive, hidebound religious-exclusivist ethics.
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There are pros and cons to that: a chief constable who has been in post too long can become hidebound and resistant to change, but changing leaders too often can lead to discontinuity.
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This is almost radical stuff for a hidebound bureaucracy.
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Even Germany, the Continent's largest and most hidebound economy, may soon see reform.
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That they should be doing so for the selfish, narrow-minded, hidebound partisan purposes of avoiding defeat at the hands of the electorate rather than out of any grand point of principle makes their act of dishonest and dishonourable perfidiousness all the more shameful.
RIP The UK : Casually Butchered For The Convenience & Well-Being Of Socialism
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For her part, Eliss found Ciaran dusty and hidebound, carrying as he did a clipboard, a stylus and a pair of pince-nez on a steel chain.
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He needed to transform the entrenched corporate culture, which had become hidebound and overly bureaucratic.
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Far too many people adhere to the notion that the Army cannot transform from within, as we are too hidebound, too wedded to orthodoxy.
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There's no magic formula that will transform a hidebound organization into one eager to adopt the latest software technology.
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It needs someone immediately capable of cutting through the company's notoriously intractable bureaucracy and hidebound engineering culture.
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We were not so hidebound by tradition, so we had to discover new ways to express ourselves.
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It is nothing short of a revolution for a body seen by its critics as hidebound and conservative with a small ācā.
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Martha, Mary and their friends at the Women's Centre are trying to do their bit for the feminist movement but are usually thwarted by the intransigence of conventional outlooks and hidebound attitudes to gender.
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The philosophes criticized the ancien regime of religious superstition and dogmatism, hidebound social traditions, and repressive morality.
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Whether the conservative, hidebound publishing establishment will treat such works with the seriousness they deserve is of course another matter.
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Life with the Leighs was not hidebound by rules or convention.
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This is the kind of step that is quite often made in science by a junior researcher, not yet hidebound by tradition.
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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.
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It would stimulate overdue reform of hidebound institutions, whether regulatory bodies or royal colleges.
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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.
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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.
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The economy was hidebound by public spending and private monopolies.
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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.
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From this it is but a short step to viewing those who oppose liberal ideas or policies as hidebound traditionalists, bigots, or ignoramuses.
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They all assumed a similar irreverence towards their hidebound elders.
BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
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It will not be a flash mob organised online, because that would be old skool, hidebound and lame.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until that time when the meaning of it all shall flash out upon the world, the race will be hidebound in callousness and in faint-hearted melancholy.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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We need to be less hidebound by old design standards and take a more flexible approach.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until that time when the meaning of it all shall flash out upon the world, the race will be hidebound in callousness and in faint-hearted melancholy.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Have in posteriority a young person with greying hair a lot of be to accompany some kind of disease happening, because spirit is het-up, some are with hidebound be caused by.
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From this it is but a short step to viewing those who oppose liberal ideas or policies as hidebound traditionalists, bigots, or ignoramuses.
