(a.) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.
(a.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
(a.) Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.
(a.) Niggardly; penurious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osborne would like some of that conservative approach imported into the UK, while at the same time ensuring that the banks are not so hidebound by new capital requirements that credit is choked off.
(2) Whether it is a fault of Britain's hidebound business environment or a reflection of where Branson sees a money-making opportunity, many of the tycoon's UK ventures have involved close interaction with the government of the day, from seeking ministerial backing for Heathrow landing slots to buying Northern Rock from the state for £747m.
(3) The Tory government, and the business secretary in particular, are so hidebound by their restrictive economic orthodoxy that they have allowed this problem to fester and they are even now reluctant to do what is necessary to save our steel industry.
(4) The all too obvious danger is that the Burmese military, fearful of losing its privileges, hidebound by a narrow view of national security, and feeling it has already achieved its aim of balancing strong Chinese influence by bringing other countries into play, will sideline or discard her.
(5) Rather, they had the appearance of old, hidebound minds, flipping between strident arrogance and looking as if they are scared out of their wits: no friends of the brave, fragile people at the cutting edge of the economy, who will just have to toil on regardless.
(6) In reality, he has broken with tradition by accepting scores of urgent questions (and there was another one on Monday, too) to fulfil his promise of making sure that parliament is not too hidebound by procedures to debate live issues of controversy.
(7) Extrapulmonary thoracic restriction ("hidebound chest") has not been previously reported to complicate EF.
(8) But I won't hold my breath in expectation that such a hidebound industry will wake up on this.
(9) For 70 years now, this network and its orchestras have been more innovative and less hidebound than their reputations deserve.
(10) Such is what passes for “accountability” in the hidebound, medieval and largely self-serving Catholic hierarchy.
(11) One of the most striking clinical findings has been scleroderma-like skin disease manifesting as diffuse fasciitis or hidebound induration.
(12) These studies indicate that the major defect responsible for the hidebound skin lesions of scleroderma may be decreased collagenase activity.
(13) Balls and his team deserve credit for moving into territory that more hidebound Labour people must find rather uncomfortable.
(14) South Africa did not return to the Olympics – or to other international sporting competition, once even the hidebound likes of rugby and cricket had cottoned on – until 1992, when apartheid fell.
(15) That is wrong.” Varoufakis, who has described himself as an “accidental economist”, is the first to say he is not hidebound by ideology.
(16) So it may be a surprise that the first signs of resistance to Trump’s program are from that famously cautious, hidebound institution, the Federal Reserve .
(17) Your audience will expect a) lots of Sky-at-20 propaganda; b) criticisms of hidebound regulators; c) mockery of ITV; d) mockery of pay-TV rivals; e) praise of the free market as on the side of consumers.
(18) "Because of where he's come from, he's not hidebound by the conventions of contemporary film-making.
(19) The big labor unions have been fighting their hidebound reputations, but with their falling membership rolls they’ve needed to recruit warm bodies.
(20) Affected neonatal calves were unable to rise and had intention tremors, hidebound skin, slightly domed calvaria, slight prognathism, and narrow palpebral fissures.
Traditionalist
Definition:
(n.) An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
Example Sentences:
(1) I suppose I'm a traditionalist because I saw the errors of so many school leaders.
(2) He revealed that he is nervous about involvement of private companies in delivering public services, saying he regarded himself as a traditionalist in terms of the relationship between business and government.
(3) In a nod to traditionalists, who fear that the green belt will be covered in concrete, the government will not revisit its National Planning Policy.
(4) Strangely, this traditionalist authoritarian agenda has often been promoted by women.
(5) The types were labeled: "finicky eaters," "health-conscious dieters," "diverse diners," and "high-calorie traditionalists."
(6) But it was Laura, the martyr of East Dulwich, whom traditionalists appointed chief victim of the changes: the poster girl for affluent, stay-at-home mothers.
(7) While the prime minister is struggling to control his backbenchers, there are signs that cabinet traditionalists are keen not to undermine him.
(8) Kennedy was not particularly active during the oral argument and, in isolation, his questions reflected ambivalence, echoing both the traditionalist concerns of Roberts and suggesting that bans on same-sex marriage undermined the dignity of gays and lesbians.
(9) Serious and dry, with traditionalist views on the ordination of gay priests and women, he does not fit the Church of England stereotype even if he does have a hybrid car, albeit one with a chauffeur attached.
(10) Yet because they invariably present themselves as modernisers, those who resist or criticise their arguments risk being seen as traditionalists, stuck in old ways and outmoded thinking – a position that seldom promises rapid career advancement.
(11) Much depended on the attitude of Khamenei, said Amir Mohebbian, an influential rightwing writer, government insider and founder of the traditionalist Modern Thinkers party.
(12) The move is being driven by Nick Gibb, the traditionalist schools minister running curriculum policy, following a paper published last November by Tim Oates, head of research at the exam body Cambridge Assessment.
(13) Yet there's no need for traditionalists to be so gloomy.
(14) And when someone like Mizulina proposes extreme traditionalist measures, the Kremlin can curb her initiatives, signalling to society that if not for Putin, obscurantists would rule.
(15) By speaking out in favour of increasing the number of nurseries and the introduction of a women's quota, gay marriage and a nationwide minimum wage, Von der Leyen made enemies among the more traditionalist party members and won admirers on the left.
(16) The early victims and opponents of this ultra-aggressive modernity were local elites who organised their resistance around traditionalist loyalties and fantasies of recapturing a lost golden age – tendencies evident in the Boxer Rebellion in China as well as early 19th-century jihads against British rule in India.
(17) He arrived in office with the image of a stolid traditionalist, suffered some early wounding setbacks but emerged at the end of it as a pioneering campaigner in partnership with one of the most glamorous film stars on the planet.
(18) Perhaps in a more calculated set of exchanges designed to marginalise the traditionalist faction and silence it in the aftermath of a lacklustre result in recent local elections?
(19) Senator Lindsey Graham, one of his defeated opponents, tweeted: “I hope America’s adversaries are watching & now understand there’s a new sheriff in town.” Charles Krauthammer, a conservative columnist known to be on Trump’s radar, wrote in the Washington Post: “The traditionalists are in the saddle.
(20) This longstanding issue is still the subject of controversy between on the one hand those whose scientific activities contribute to our knowledge of food and environmental hygiene, enteric infections, food-borne diseases and zoonoses in general, and on the other the all too numerous traditionalists (even within the profession) who resist the venture of veterinarians into new territories and resent involvement in public health.