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What does procrustean mean?

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  1. Enforcing strict conformity through disregard of individual differences or special circumstances. [from 17th c.]
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Nor do I think it's terribly difficult to nail down these two grand natural-law religious principles to the Procrustean bed of reality dealt with by government day to day.
Thousands of workers are being made redundant and workers' fundamental labour and social rights are being cut to fit to the Procrustean bed.
Couto's book originates in the need to explain an identity that eludes the Procrustean dogmas of language, region, even religion.
Do we persist in committing the Procrustean crime of fitting the facts to our opinions rather than the other way around?
Not so very different, after all, from the fundamentalists back home who are forever devising Procrustean means to arrive at unitary cultural identities.
It is revealed as the Procrustean bed which cramps us up until we ache inside.

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