The town was quiet, which didn't surprise him, given the somewhat puritanical hold the golden tribe had on the place.

The ecclesiastical organization of Tabor had a somewhat puritanical character, and the government was established on a thoroughly democratic basis.

In 2001 the Interior Minister of Thailand, Purachai Piumsombun, began a campaign to enforce his somewhat puritanical ideas of social order.

The ecclesiastical organization of Tabor had a somewhat puritanical character with a very strict military discipline being instituted though the government was established on a thoroughly democratic basis.

But he was by no means the moral weakling that the unimaginative and somewhat puritanical Grant had supposed.

As a leader, Williams would gain a reputation for strong will, absorption in administrative minutiae and a "somewhat puritanical" nature.

Many islanders are also members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and tend to a somewhat puritanical attitude.

The suburb of Shoreditch was attractive as a location for these early theatres because it was outside the jurisdiction of the somewhat puritanical City fathers.

Mr. Cooke hung beside the ruler whom he opposed, sturdy, and somewhat puritanical, as befitted a popular leader.

In western Canada, in those days, people held somewhat puritanical ideas which excluded almost anything but hymns and classical music on the Sabbath day.