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She is a hidebound Republican and lets you know it.

So the Masters were not hidebound about their own rules.

So did the experience of overturning hidebound thinking with reason.

That both parties needed to move beyond their "hidebound ideology."

I do not mean to sound like a hidebound traditionalist.

This is a prince less hidebound than his father and more informal.

And how I do love him, in spite of his hidebound conservatism.

I have always been one to test the hidebound ways of our church to stop us from becoming parochial.

Merrill, however, has tended to be more hidebound in this respect.

One is hidebound, stiff, silent in the face of media criticism.

When we're too hidebound and reactionary, there's room in the law for the Secretary to get his way.

Or, well, at least the hotheaded young men, and the hidebound old ones.

But in a hidebound profession, he faces an uphill fight.

Governments are apt to be a bit hidebound over their engines of war.

Yet both, and especially the Arizonan, are less hidebound than those figures would suggest.

"Maybe we're both on the hidebound and conservative side, Doe.

People aren't anything like as hidebound as they used to be.

"They were sort of hidebound about it," Johnson said.

For decades, the veterans health care system had a reputation as hidebound and bureaucratic.

James had been the recipient of that hidebound attitude and if anything, he'd reinforced it.

He recalls that working with these people was a great relief after hidebound middle-class Indian life.

Whatever Ball's problems, they have not stemmed from being hidebound or timid.

To explore the classical idiom does not mean one has to be hidebound.

Companies like Sears, he told the shareholders, were hidebound and inbred.