the hidebound innkeeper refused to see the need for a Web site, insisting that the inn had done without one for over 150 years

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But aircraft designers are not hidebound by precedent or production methods. Hall Hibbard, Popular Mechanics, "The Flying Wing of the Future," 10 Sep. 2020

The reformers viewed decentralization as an experiment that would unshackle the underperforming Ocean Hill-Brownsville district from the Board of Education’s hidebound central bureaucracy. Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, "Rhody McCoy, key figure in New York’s school wars," 23 May 2020

If walking, for Ekelund, is a process necessary in its own right, O’Mara’s concerns are more prosaic and hidebound. David L. Ulin, New York Times, "How Walking Changes Us," 12 May 2020

Years later, McNair was selected to become only the second African American to travel to space, overcoming segregation, poverty and racist hidebound stereotypes in an intellectual act of resistance that inspired a generation. Fox News, "5 African-American groundbreakers in the US space program," 21 Feb. 2020

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. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, "‘It’s About Time’: A Baby Comes to the Senate Floor," 19 Apr. 2018

Culinary professionals suggest that the city, by virtue of the depth and quality of its food offerings, does promote a hidebound attitude. Charles Passy, WSJ, "To the Chagrin of Politicians, New York Has Strict Food Rules," 18 Jan. 2020

Some hidebound fans refused to imagine that a character defined by physical alteration, in a series that does not fret much over canonical consistency, could change into a woman. Los Angeles Times, "Review: ‘Doctor Who’ meets James Bond in the swashbuckling ‘Spyfall’," 1 Jan. 2020

Dating back more than 600 years, the job of speaker comes with an illustrious history, though Mr. Bercow prided himself on modernizing Parliament and casting off some of the most hidebound traditions surrounding the speaker’s position. Stephen Castle, New York Times, "Lindsay Hoyle to Replace John Bercow as U.K. Speaker," 4 Nov. 2019

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