Banking's dirty secret is that it is backward, inefficient and hidebound.
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In the often hidebound metal landscape, Shone is an opinionated outsider.
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Yet even the hidebound Celtics are trying to jump on board.
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Such a system would certainly be less convoluted and bureaucratically hidebound.
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Many are running as independents rather than representing the hidebound religious parties.
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In 2016, Sanders ran as an insurgent against a hidebound Democratic Party.
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As a statement, it says that hidebound, conservative Bordeaux is no more.
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This is a place conscious of history, but not hidebound by it.
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It's "not a hidebound conservative board by any stretch," Mr. Nadosy said.
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Its culture is provincial, its theater hidebound and its worldview small-minded.
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Remarkably in so hidebound a country he is getting away with it.
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Yet too many of Japan's politicians and corporate titans are male, hidebound and timid.
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In Schy, Bryson DeChambeau found a fellow nonconformist, another square in golf's hidebound circles.
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Jim Yong Kim, the World Bank's president, is trying to revitalize a hidebound institution.
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David Garrison and Stephen Barker Turner are the hidebound grown-ups who ruin everything.
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Mr. Sondland also liked to present himself as a refreshing alternative to hidebound bureaucrats.
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Only the most hidebound politicians still yearn for the state-owned "national champions" of yore.
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London's music industry was hidebound, but it also had an insatiable desire for new hits.
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A hitherto hidebound place is turning into something more informal, more open and more varied.
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In an age of hidebound regression, moving forward becomes inseparable from looking backward and inward.
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England is a country hidebound by class, trapped in a web of nuance and presumption.
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Hidebound college basketball fans seeking a return to the good old days may feel relieved.
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John Meyer's upstart venture company is trying to upturn what he sees as a hidebound industry.
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In 22019, Warren compromised with lots of hidebound Republicans on a bill to get veterans jobs.
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For the hidebound institution of Congress, that might be as far as lawmakers go, for now.
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Courts are typically more hidebound and less nimble than culture, although they are embedded in it.
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In Philadelphia, hidebound ways of confronting iPhone thefts let thrive illicit networks to distribute stolen cellphones.
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The moral is that people are often too hidebound by social convention to state their views.
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His character, still mourning his late wife, is proud but less hidebound than he first appears.
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The moral is that people are often too hidebound by social convention to state their views.
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Hidebound corporate governance at the firm and its parent have recently come under fire from activist investors.
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But most are also hidebound by their tribal commitment to the "party" currently run by Jeremy Corbyn.
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But the electricity system was a hidebound, monopolistic industry that used to spend virtually nothing on innovation.
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But some of that is the era: less hidebound, with more elastic definitions of masculinity, and thus fatherhood.
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What's more, startups bring fresh approaches and thinking, while hidebound behemoths stagnate in their old ways of doing things.
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Schools face growing competition from overseas and online programmes—and, as Mr Benioff's critique implies, questions over hidebound curriculums.
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The rapid rise of e-book sales after the Kindle's introduction caused panic in America's most anxious, hidebound industry.
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They've run their teams, for better or worse, in the same autocratic, hidebound fashion that they ran those companies.
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Though the driving decision had its detractors, hidebound husbands and fathers can still coerce their charges into staying at home.
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Yet the harder they press against hidebound traditions, the more intense the backlash becomes — and the deeper the embarrassment goes.
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The bad news is that mindsets have yet to change, from the top of a hidebound industry to the bottom.
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Worse yet, there's a good chance that you're set in anachronistic ways, hidebound with habits which are now considered harmful.
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They are a diverse group, from hidebound apparatchiks to bureaucrats who teach themselves English by listening to foreign radio broadcasts.
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To ban carefully restricted experiments in the name of mere hidebound metaphysics, as many of her critics tried, was outrageous.
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Mr. Kauffman argues that the utilities distributing electrical power are among the most hidebound, least innovative, businesses in the nation.
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All Americans, Catholic and non-Catholic, are duty bound to demand that a hidebound Catholic hierarchy listen and take action.
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Elected in 2014 on a platform of aggressive change, he has delivered on important reforms to modernize India's hidebound economy.
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The forthcoming implosion of Mr. Ryan's party, and his imminent retreat to Wisconsin, illustrates the danger of hidebound ideological overconfidence.
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Malta itself is economically thriving and a far more relaxed place than the hidebound country that joined the EU in 2004.
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Managing partners who hire more women may be less hidebound by convention—a good trait for someone investing in innovative technologies.
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"Beasts of No Nation" came from Netflix, which is a scary interloper in the hidebound, turf-protective world of the studios.
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Stories set to music, which Benjamin had generated so guilelessly as a child, were derided as facile, hidebound, and decadently nostalgic.
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The Army is a hidebound organization that prizes conformity, and McMaster's lustrous public profile has not always translated into professional advancement.
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They're often old and big companies, so they're often somewhat hidebound in a top-down corporate culture that doesn't encourage dissent.
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Mohammad bin Salman has pushed the hidebound kingdom to implement reforms while cozying up to the U.S., a top Saudi ally.
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"Refuge" is the first comprehensive attempt in years to rethink from first principles a system hidebound by old thinking and hand-wringing.
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But the commune's decline, alongside the advance of a claustrophobic and ghetto-like mentality of hidebound Islamic conservatism, was anything but inevitable.
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Large historical forces are converging to create unprecedented turmoil and opportunity in what had long been one of the most hidebound industries.
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Samsung, like South Korea as a whole, fosters a top-down, hidebound culture that stifles innovation and buries festering problems, they say.
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Presenting himself as a "demolition man", Renzi promised to overhaul hidebound Italy, whose economy has repeatedly underperformed that of other euro zone countries.
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Congress, the BJP's only national rival, may be hidebound and corrupt, but at least it does not set Indians at one another's throats.
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Image: PixabayFinally, there's a more philosophical question to ponder: does the officiation of the Anthropocene by a group of hidebound academics really matter?
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Similarly, as Quinn's staunchly nationalist Aunt Pat, Ann McDonough is less fiercely hidebound than Dearbhla Molloy was; there's more obvious pathos to her.
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Openly antagonistic about the slow pace of the hidebound Senate, Mr. Rubio made it clear that it was the White House or bust.
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"There's a lot of reasons to believe that would have shaken up the hidebound ideas of what an Oscar movie is," she said.
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The Trump campaign — with its angry, "truth telling," transgressive style — might open the door to a less hidebound, more honest politics in the future.
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The school's approach to music was hidebound, but Debussy wanted to reinvent it, creating shimmering, chromatic sound pictures based on unusual scales and chords.
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In 1999, he'd become head of a hidebound, creaking National Security Agency, shaved off management fat and pumped new muscle into its collection capabilities.
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The talks represent the latest chapter in Brazil's efforts to open up its hidebound economy and trade more with the rest of the world.
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In many ways, her struggle with the F.D.A. was a microcosm of the increasingly tense battle between hidebound regulatory agencies and freewheeling tech companies.
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Bolsonaro's economic team has promised to liberalize Brazil's hidebound economy, rid the country of "socialism," and enact conservative social measures in areas like education.
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Naruhito followed suit in 1993 by marrying career diplomat Masako Owada, despite her reservations at becoming part of the rigorously traditional and hidebound Imperial Household.
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Such achievements have been lacking in the Washington in recent years, where both parties are too often wedded to the hidebound thinking of the past.
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The young royal has tightened his grip on the kingdom while presenting himself in Western capitals as the man to reform the hidebound Saudi state.
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They really want him to be able to wear a dress to his school prom, despite objections from a hidebound teacher and a few parents.
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But if fintechs start disrupting hidebound banks, or start to dominate the financial sector, then sovereign nations will find themselves with a severely diminished macroprudential toolkit.
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Ratmansky had his fill of managing ballet companies in the five years, from 2004, that he spent as the artistic director of Moscow's hidebound Bolshoi Ballet.
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The 63-year-old ran as an outsider bent on smashing what he sees as a corrupt and hidebound political system that has forgotten ordinary citizens.
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Never mind that most Milanese men are too hidebound to be seen wearing open-necked shirts anywhere except in a convertible on the way to Portofino.
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The entire show hinges on the grid, a device that was foundational to hidebound 20th-century modernism and continues to hold sway over much picture-making today.
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The history-making moment felt as though the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences might be moving forward from its often hidebound traditions, albeit incredibly fitfully.
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They failed to grasp that with every mute hour that passed, they reinforced the powerful story that Diana had told — that they were a cold, hidebound lot.
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I get that the Valley idea of a union is basically that of a terrible hidebound boa constrictor which chokes off all hope of speed and/or innovation.
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The 76-year-old is the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy -- the Treasury Secretary, essentially -- and a key driver behind the Pope's campaign to reform the hidebound Vatican.
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A reason for hoping that the elderly would turn out less hidebound is that life itself would be more a series of new beginnings than one single story.
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The cool of California was going to rub off on the hidebound fashion world, and the glamour of fashion was going to fill consumers with desire for products.
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And it is hosting high-profile entertainment and sporting events aimed at creating jobs and shedding the kingdom's reputation as hidebound by a hyper-conservative interpretation of Islam.
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The far-right president has promised to liberalize Brazil's hidebound economy, rid the country of "socialism," quell violent drug gangs and enact conservative social measures in areas like education.
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He envisioned a menu that was nostalgic — "The best feedback to hear is 'I grew up eating this,'" he said — but not hidebound by tradition, and his partners agreed.
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It was a potent reminder that while fashion likes to consider itself part of the front lines of social consciousness, it is still in many ways a hidebound industry.
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Maile's arrival was the product of several months of behind-the-scenes negotiation in the hidebound Senate, whose rules until Wednesday barred children from coming onto the Senate floor.
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Two experts at Oxford University present the first comprehensive attempt in years to rethink from first principles a system that has long been hidebound by hand-wringing and old ideas.
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The 30-year-old unveiled a string of commitments to end the kingdom's dependence on oil by 2030 which, in themselves, would be a remarkable achievement for a hidebound country.
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The ad's message may also tap into an emerging new market for Arab women chafing at hidebound social norms and an entertainment industry that often relegates them to docile roles.
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Couture, after all, is traditionally considered the most hidebound part of an industry latterly famous for being built on the practice of men dictating to women how they should look.
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It's been so long since we've seen a show that honored the conventions of an honorable and venerable form with such integrity and affection, without feeling in any way hidebound.
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To local activists, the national group is a hidebound practitioner of the "appeasement or olive-branch theory of governance" that keeps gun owners from claiming the full liberties owed to them.
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But he also took aim at the hidebound realities of French politics by warning of public spending cuts and more free market reforms designed to kick-start France's highly regulated economy.
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Varieties of Islam Today, young men and women face pressure to conform to a hidebound view of Islamist culture that locals say is more conservative than their parents' or grandparents' Morocco.
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" Others, like the website ThinkProgress, refused to use the term, saying it put a hip veneer on "hidebound racist movements such as the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan.
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According to Arendt, even the ideologically hidebound Marx and Lenin realized, if only dimly and fleetingly, that something truly revolutionary in human history was afoot in the creation of these organizations.
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State-owned oil giant Aramco, the largest Saudi company and a paragon of efficiency in the kingdom's often hidebound economy, is trying to encourage innovation by giving entrepreneurs training and loans.
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The 1950 Violin Concerto, like Schoenberg's, has a broadly traditional overarching three-movement structure, drawing upon what might still be salvaged from old forms and yet far from being hidebound by them.
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Other youthful politicians have faced the challenge Mr. Macron now does: to balance an image representative of the entrepreneurial France he imagines driving into a digital future and a hidebound traditional one.
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In some ways, what's happened at CBS News resembles what's happened to news organizations across the world of media, most of which were hidebound in their thinking about how technology was changing everything.
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For those who chafe at Japan's stale economy and hidebound culture, the image of young creative types, knitting old inner tubes into dog collars before cracking open a local brew, holds great allure.
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While his frank talk about the VA's failures sometimes put him at odds with hidebound government labor unions and more traditional veterans organizations, it was necessary groundwork to build the case for transformation.
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ALAN GILBERT'S FINAL SEASON As the New York Philharmonic's music director since 27, Mr. Gilbert has done his best to deliver a jolt of experimentation to a hidebound (not to say intransigent) institution.
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Mr. Hutchinson often fought against the prevailing definitions of obscenity in cases that were seen as landmarks in Britain's transition from a prudish and hidebound society to a more open and tolerant one.
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"Culture is too hidebound," he explained, and what is passed down to its inhabitants is "an ancestral blindness," which makes recognizing the worth of other types of lives particularly difficult if not impossible.
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"Culture is too hidebound," he explained, and what is passed down to its inhabitants is "an ancestral blindness," which makes recognizing the worth of other types of lives particularly difficult if not impossible.
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The designs will be open source, opening the way for future companies (or tinkerers) to manufacture cheap, secure systems that liberate officials like DeBeauvoir from the tyranny of high-priced, hidebound, hackable technology.
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Via her San Francisco restaurants, Atelier Crenn and Petit Crenn, Crenn has brought disruption to the somewhat hidebound restaurant industry; she is pushing the boundaries of the sector as it changes and morphs.
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The Nobel Prize is the most honored and prestigious award in the world, but lately I fear it has seemed more and more hidebound, and in danger of being strangled by its own rules.
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It would take place in the Tank, the historic Pentagon boardroom where the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet, a hallowed inner sanctum that was bound to appeal to Trump's taste for hidebound power rituals.
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So it went for Mr Mubarak, who eluded punishment in most of the cases against him—his fortunes improving as Egypt's "deep state", composed of hidebound judges, security forces and military men, gradually reasserted itself.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads First among the reasons for the Museum of Modern Art's expansionist dreams was the need to punch up its hidebound historical narrative with new locales, characters, and plot twists.
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The prototype of such works is John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" (1956), in which the ultimate angry young man, Jimmy Porter, spewed bile about a classist, hidebound Britain that he felt had betrayed him.
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Since rising to power as the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman has cultivated a reputation as a savvy young reformer, dragging his hidebound country into the modern age with a new vision.
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To undercut these racist beliefs, films have had to shunt characters into a rigid binary that insists on America as the powerful redeeming force for an Asia marked by excess, authoritarianism, and a hidebound tradition.
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The Eurointelligence think-tank said the end of the easy-to-use vouchers showed the impossibility of reforming hidebound Italy, which has regularly underperformed other eurozone economies since the launch of the single currency in 1999.
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Even in the United States, which was far less hidebound in terms of musical tradition, it was not until 1930 that an orchestra, in this case the Philadelphia Orchestra, hired a woman in a tenured position.
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He cries easily and can become impatient and never bothered much to disguise his contempt for adversaries, at least until he arrived in the Senate, whose hidebound traditions of decorum demanded at least an honest effort.
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She conveys throughout admiration, sympathy and compassion for her subjects while they learn the hard way that hidebound traditions, a rigid seniority system and encrusted modes of governance do not yield readily to even the strongest convictions.
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And when it comes to the hidebound world of presidential debates, the combination of "idealized discourse" and "revered tradition" is basically enough to guarantee that moderators will treat this election — and these candidates — just like any other.
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But what was also clear was his intense frustration over the tiny number of colleagues who supported him, and the difficulty of getting the hidebound education and medical establishments, let alone the public-sector unions, to embrace change.
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Although some may find that Basha's genial acceptance of her lot is romanticized, she frankly boasts that she has freedoms, even living as she does, that would be denied her in the hidebound community where she grew up.
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Critics of the agency have seized on the most recent cases to amplify calls for the White House to recruit a leader from outside the Secret Service, which would be unprecedented in the famously hidebound agency's modern history.
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But don't be fooled: The essays are actually thinly veiled shots at a US military that McMaster thinks is too hidebound and wedded to defense contractors to understand how war needs to be fought in the 21st century.
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Given the fact that you, like most of these donors, are old, hidebound, and have the attention span—on a good day—of a mayfly, you might tire of funding something that's not yielding the instant gratification you crave.
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For former Wall Street banker Kevin Warsh, who served as a Fed governor at the time of the financial crisis, the economic recovery is characterized by bloated central bank balance sheets, financial risks, and a hidebound institution that needs new approaches.
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Many people see it as a politically conservative, hidebound institution, but it's actually one of the most aggressive parts of the US government when it comes to acknowledging the threat posed by climate change and taking concrete steps to fight it.
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The four-day presidential visit to Japan comes at a time when sumo, with its ritualized spectacle of oversize men grappling in carefully coifed topknots and loincloths, has come under intense scrutiny for discriminatory practices, hidebound traditions and bullying scandals.
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I still do not quite understand, for example, why there is no suggestion that women's soccer might not benefit from a Pan-European league, as exists in basketball, rather than being hidebound to national divisions as conceived by the Victorians?
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All of this has given Fr. Z the image of a rogue blogger-priest, accountable to an obscure authority, firing red pills from his digital pulpit at a hidebound institution that is unprepared to deal with the new age of online dissent.
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While AJ+ benefitted from the sandbox-experimentation culture of San Francisco (and a ten-hour time difference with Qatar), AJAM was hidebound by the sober traditionalism of TV newscasting, which was becoming more outdated by the day, and a vexed relationship with Doha.
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The military Hersey describes in A Bell for Adano is one I recognized from Baghdad: a hidebound institution that reacted with sometimes astonishing stupidity, run by professional sociopaths and staffed by idealistic young officers whose missionary zeal was matched only by their naïveté.
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The columnist Bill Simmons and the blog Deadspin pushed back against the hidebound conventions of sportswriting, the former with a hyperpersonal style defined by homerism, looseness and joy, the latter by happily pointing out all the ways we were being lied to.
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Whatever the merits of modified tackle, the biggest obstacle may be hidebound football coaches and the parents who cling to the notion that football is football only if it is played on a 100-yard field by 22 children at a time.
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Star to know: Drew Kane, executive vice president of global platform solutions2019 revenue: $250 millionComment: Mediaocean has long sold software that helps advertisers with their ad buying and billing and is now trying to shake up the hidebound process of TV-advertising buying.
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It wasn't just that cultural gatekeepers didn't find the events noteworthy, but also that violence against queer people — particularly poor and gender non-conforming queer people — was a fact of life, and many of the most hidebound members of society felt they deserved it.
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How did we go from predictions that the tech industry would replace the hidebound status quo with a new democratized openness, power to the people, now that we all carry a networked supercomputer in our pocket … to widespread, metastasizing accusations of abuse of power?
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"It was almost as if Chipotle was the hidebound, troubled, figure-it-out-as-we-go-along kind of company levered to one new dish, the queso, while McDonald's was all about execution and value, the twin pillars of higher stock prices," Cramer said.
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As he rose to the summit of Saudi power over the past three years, Crown Prince Mohammed wooed a range of partners with his vision to transform the kingdom from a hidebound bastion of religious conservatism into a global hub with a diversified economy.
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Looking back, it is tempting to wonder if this was always going to be his final transformation, his ultimate metamorphosis, his highest and purest form: listed as an attacker, alongside Suárez and Philippe Coutinho, but no longer hidebound by such banal ideas as fixed positions.
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But when you begin to hold fidelity to rigid doctrine above open-hearted service to people -- when you claim to do God's work on earth but put hidebound rules before earthbound mercy -- you should look in the mirror and ask yourself who you're really serving.
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One reason for this unlikely and surprising pairing — which we could use a lot more of in our hidebound American art world — was that Davidts believes that Vandenberg and Nauman's art is a cry of frustration engendered by the recognition that actual communication between individuals was impossible.
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The most tragic time of any diminishing faith is when it must admit its lack of relevance and simply cannot, when something that once felt vital and important becomes a dead book full of dead gods being danced to life again by opportunistic or hidebound fundamentalists.
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Under Xi, set to begin a second five-year term at a key party congress next month, the once-hidebound Communist Party has sought to revitalise its role in society amid challenges to its traditional authority as the country gets richer, more mobile and more digitally connected.
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Such changes, while small, come as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushes to reform Japan's hidebound farm industry where small-plot holdings still dominate, the average farmer is aged over 66 and the sector's contribution to the economy has fallen by 25 percent since its peak in 1984.
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To relish that sensibility, you do not have to be familiar with what's being made mock of here: the hidebound institutions of parliament and the navy, the pieties of Victorian sentimentality and Italian operas in which improbably intricate plots were matched by the ornateness of the score.
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And as a designer who has often been at his best when he is using fashion to philosophize on the subject of sex (or Puritanism or hidebound morality), he may have struggled with how to express himself at a time when the topic has become a public minefield.
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"The level of fear can't help but permeate the most hidebound Republican politician on a personal level," said Peter Ambler, executive director of Giffords, a gun-safety advocacy group that released a video on Monday featuring the top Democratic presidential candidates calling for action on gun violence in schools.
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The couple has had a toxic relationship with Britain's tabloids, which soured on Meghan after initially giving her rapturous coverage — a 38-year-old American actress with a mixed-race background who brought a breath of fresh air into one of the country's most revered but hidebound institutions.
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Set in the world of Georgian dance — a centuries-old tradition that is still a powerful force in that country — this story of a young dancer's self-discovery both celebrates the precision and athletic rigor of an ancient choreographic form, and critiques its most hidebound resistance to change.
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The primary offenders aren't the hidebound Baby Boomers, but their kids, which means for workers of all ages who resent the implication that they have to check email from the beach or table their vacation days entirely, the anti-holiday sentiment is likely to get worse before it gets better.
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He's delightful to watch as a player, and a welcome presence willing to push back against the more hidebound circles in and around the league, but it feels selfish as a fan to ask a player to endure more physical punishment, especially at a position as grueling as running back.
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By the time Mr. Phillips retired in 1991, The Journal had not only moved well past its days of strict association with big business; it had also begun opening up what his successor, Peter R. Kann, called a "pretty hidebound" culture with respect to women and minorities in its work force.
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Obsessed with remaking his hidebound country and curbing the regional ambitions of its nemesis, Iran, the young, hard-charging Saudi has imprisoned hundreds of rivals at a five-star hotel in Riyadh, strong-armed the prime minister of Lebanon in a failed stab at Iran and stepped up his devastating war in Yemen.
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The period in the history of the Academy Awards that this current one most resembles is the late 1960s, when then-Academy president Gregory Peck saw the way the organization had become hidebound and stuck in its ways and instituted measures to remake its ranks, particularly by letting in lots and lots of youthful voters.
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But the legalization of recreational marijuana that just passed in Canada — with which New York State shares hundreds of miles of a border — combined with legalization campaigns in neighboring states could force the normally hidebound Legislature to legalize the drug, if only to make sure New York gets a piece of an emerging industry.
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A curious case study from any angle, Unforgettable contains multitudes: a refreshing change of pace from an increasingly hidebound studio system, an affecting thriller that uses catfighting as a Trojan horse to smuggle in earnest depictions of the struggles women face in middle age, a launching board for the Katherine Heigl comeback we never knew we needed.
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The Gallic powers that be looked hidebound and prissy; public opinion applauded her (duh!) and suddenly the whole idea of what should and should not be worn on the court and who should get to decide, a subject of debate since Andre Agassi threw his first neon-colored tantrum in the 1990s, was back in the news.
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Antetokounmpo and fellow young "unicorns" like Kristaps Porzingis of the Knicks and Joel Embiid of the Sixers — their taxonomic I.D., co-opted from Silicon Valley, refers to a singular talent without antecedent — will go a long way toward determining whether the pro-basketball industrial complex can make as much money appealing to liberated fans as to their hidebound, local-market counterparts.
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At the time eBay first made its way into the public mind, optimistic self-styled experts on the coming web-connected world declared that a new utopian marketplace of ideas was upon us; tired and stultifying gatekeepers would be swept aside, previously marginal or idiosyncratic thought could compete fairly with the hidebound and the elite, and the people would form our own more perfect polis.
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As University of Kentucky historian George Herring noted in his 2008 book From Colony to Superpower, Nixon and Kissinger were "reluctant to share power and certain that a hidebound bureaucracy could be an obstacle to the bold moves they hoped to implement," so they put foreign policy in the hands of Kissinger as head of the National Security Council, shutting out diplomats and military men.
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Where the liberal order envisioned as the summit of political development in The End of History and the Last Man has grown notably brittle, hidebound, and inward-looking, the participatory and locally embedded traditions of republicanism, aimed at cultivating virtue and self-sacrifice as a civic bulwark against the corrosive forces of vice, luxury, and atomistic individualism, now speak to an increasingly unmoored political age with fresh urgency.
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Antony Beevor's recent account of the invasion of Crete explores the unsettled question of whether the commander of the British garrison on the Greek island knew that the Germans were coming in force by air and couldn't say so for fear of giving away Ultra secrets, as his defenders insist, or whether he was, in the British way, simply too hidebound to recognize the possibility of anything other than a naval invasion.
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Older, more conservative people, a majority of whom voted to leave, tend to be more critical of the couple and defensive of Queen Elizabeth II. Where Prince Harry and Meghan's defenders see a multiracial, trans-Atlantic family seeking refuge from a vindictive press and the hidebound traditions of royal life, critics see a self-indulgent pair who want the perks of royalty without its responsibilities, forsaking queen and country for the stardust of Hollywood.
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