8 sentences with 'restrictions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word restrictions and other words derived from it.
• « The status of women, however, would deteriorate over time: as the Archaic Age evolved into the Classical Age, restrictions on women's lives and freedoms would increase, especially in key polis such as Athens, culminating in some of the most misogynistic gender standards in the ancient world. »
• « For elite Greek women, social restrictions were severe: they were usually confined to the inner sanctums of homes, interacting only with family members or close female friends from families of the same social rank, and when they did go out in public they had to do so in the company of chaperones. »
• « The general pattern seems to be that women in Greece itself faced greater legal restrictions than those living in Greek colonies elsewhere in the Hellenistic world, which is not surprising since the ancient Greek polis had centuries of laws and traditions that enforced sexual divisions. »
• « There would be no property restrictions on voting - although women remained disenfranchised, as everywhere else - and never again would a monarch occupy the throne of France simply because of his dynastic birth. »
• « The stifling restrictions imposed on women and their infantilisation by men were the main factors in the rise of the feminist movement in the second half of the century, described below. »
• « The great irony of feminism, or rather the need for feminism, is that women are not a "minority", but nevertheless face prejudice, violence and legal restrictions. European Jews, on the other hand, were a minority everywhere they lived. »
• « This legal emancipation was completed in most of Europe by the end of the 19th century, although more conservative states such as Russia still maintained anti-Semitic restrictions. »
• « Some women continued to cut their hair, and of course women's suffrage finally became a reality (albeit with various restrictions) in most European countries and in the United States in the course of the 1920s. »