Sentences with word «hidebound»

Putting them into plainer English (and imagining an argumentative lawyer and a hidebound judge!)

It just occurred to me that perhaps Western culture might benefit by taking a less hidebound approach to relationships.

I'm focusing on large law firms, which are as hidebound and risk - averse as you're going to find in the business world, and where the whole business case for existence depends on strengthening the firm brand first, the lawyer brand second or lower.

It therefore can not reflect the procedural law of the DIFC which is not hidebound by an outdated and superseded rule of English procedural law which was, since 1920, founded on a mistake.

Even the hidebound U.S. Supreme Court will go paperless — in time.

«Big Law is notorious for its hidebound habits, but over the last 50 years a few dozen men and women have had an outsize impact on the profession.

We are a very hype - resistant species of knowledge workers, not swayed by fads but also (some would say) hidebound by tradition.

«Copy with cite» isn't supposed to mean «copy with a rough approximation of the Bluebook cite» even if we can all agree that the Bluebook is basically a repository of hidebound rules.

Not to be outdone, self - described «liberal skeptic» Tom Fuller of the San Francisco Examiner has been devoting his column daily to the heroic Carlin, who Fuller claims is a victim of a hidebound EPA's refusal to consider new «research».

They radiate and adapt and become, in due course, hidebound and ripe for replacement.

If they employ terms like «Ewiggestrige» [«hidebound» turned up to eleven; Journalese for «Nazi», in rare cases Communist hardliners] or «unbelehrbar» [«unteachable»; Journalese for the Pope, at least for the moment], it hasn't.

Unlike some of the younger artists who have reacted away from the elders of Abstract - Expressionism, she sees herself as a «conservative,» although her pictures can hardly be described as hidebound.

At the Academy and as an artist for the Philadelphia Press, he became friends with fellow artists Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan, the core of the group that would later form The Eight as a reaction against the National Academy of Design's hidebound exhibition policies.

I was not totally hidebound with respect to derivatives.

Writers aren't confined into the hidebound roles traditional publishing once confined us to, so why not branch out and explore?

Being hidebound and lacking innovation for decades, the publishers were particularly concerned that Amazon's pro-consumer pricing of eBooks would negatively impact their moribund sales model, and in particular the sale of higher priced physical copies of books.

What I object to is when it's presented as just one of many different publishing alternatives, suitable for anyone (it's not) or as somehow better than other kinds of publishing because Big Commercial Publishing is [pick one] dead / dying / hidebound / slow / elitist / corrupt.

Reblogged this on Spin, strangeness, and charm and commented: The same sort of hidebound small - mindedness that is decimating the music industry is now doing the same for publishing.

BEA 2013 boasted a «Digital Discovery Zone,» but for every business aimed at revolutionizing delivery to consumers, there were two whose purpose boiled down to making the digital landscape less frightening for hidebound publishers.

Ebooks are often hidebound by the demand that they match the styles of their print edition, even when many of their print design choices are grossly inappropriate for digital.

Grandinetti sat down for an interview recently to explain the thinking behind some of the decisions that have turned the hidebound world of publishing upside down.

Don't let anybody tell you that you are a smug, self righteous, arrogant, snide, hidebound, insulting jackass.

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One hundred yards across the muddy compound, you find the customs office of Tanzania, and a process hidebound in red tape.

The mayor and chancellor dismissed these criticisms as the hidebound defenses of an old, failed system devoid of meaningful standards.

Travel with me back to the infancy of the current legislative session, when the most hidebound, most intransigent, most easily vilified political hobgoblin on the political scene was the teachers union.

The Los Angeles teachers» union, United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), has long been regarded as one of the nation's most hidebound.

Essentially, a state would have to demonstrate that it can implement successful, student - focused reforms in the face of political obstacles, hidebound K - 12 establishments and teachers unions.

When so many thousands of complex institutions are spread across thousands of jurisdictions, the challenges of politics, resources, talent, and implementation are profound, and all the more so when what's being changed contains as many ingrained practices, hidebound regulatory regimes, and vested interests as public schooling.

Some in the charter school movement, viewing autonomy as its most important animating principle, responsible for so much of the innovation and energy in the 3,300 charter schools across the country, argue that the testing regimen at the heart of the standards movement and NCLB will leave charters hidebound, soulless, bureaucratized.

If there was any doubt that Tisch and Steiner weren't serious about bringing change to New York's hidebound public school system, that ended when they tapped John King to be NYSED's number two.

If only our hidebound schools could appreciate modern sophistication, we could slough off our ancient ways.

Meanwhile, parochial schooling also has to deal with the same hidebound routines, dated facilities, and ineffective practices that hinder so many urban public schools.

And coming so close on the heels of Terence Davies's A Quiet Passion and Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship, two films that revivify the period piece and prioritize the interpretive freedom of page - to - screen adaptation, the dour A Woman's Life looks like exactly that — hidebound even in its unorthodoxies.

I guess Far Far Away is more hidebound by sexist tradition than we'd realized, and anyway, keeping Fiona off the throne keeps her free to try to fend off a palace coup — with the help of some other fairy - tale gals — by Charming while Shrek is off seeking Artie.

Even the hidebound Academy members were unable to deny such flagrant genius.

The women's reunion rapidly rekindles a passion that — with stolen kisses and progressively steamier intimacy — disturbs this world's scrupulous order, a disruption that is more about hidebound tradition than about religious belief.

Based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou and set in the mid-1950s, the film relates the experiences of a troubled young man who's enrolled into a hidebound private school.

Here Howerd could truly cut loose, allowing the rest of the cast to play utterly straight while he broke character, made racy commentary about the plotline or the heroine's neckline, and introduced a welcome touch of comic anarchy in the hidebound Roman - epic genre.

One of the things I mentioned in my first article was that the often - hidebound university system can work at a dramatically different pace than industry and the rest of the «real world.»

It may be that in the future we will stay hidebound and let robots explore the universe.

«We will be the leading spacefaring nation — unless we get so hidebound into doing things we've done before that we don't want to do anything new.»

It's one of 2,219 regulations on the books that should be revisited or wiped out entirely, according to a group of Senate Republicans and Independent Democratic Conference members who pointed to a hidebound bureaucratic culture in state agencies they say is hindering the business climate.

Cuomo has boasted about a turnaround in the upstate economy, going so far as to declare improvements in Western New York's once hidebound economy «a national success story» due to his Buffalo Billion program.

Hurley town government, she asserts, is a cloistered operation, hidebound, inward and predictable.

There are other factors to Giuliani's indecision, of course: fear that he couldn't maneuver in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's hidebound culture, memories of a disastrous presidential bid, and the burden of his campaign debt.

He sees a culture clash, with a constantly evolving company that has become a global symbol of innovation laboring in a political world that is hidebound and inefficient.

«Starting to be cool» was right: As the battle for gay marriage headed to the Supreme Court, the hidebound and battered institution was looking newly hip.