| I'll be picky till my fingers bleed if it succeeds even in splintering the boards of the Procrustean bed our culture puts most women in. |
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| Thousands of workers are being made redundant and workers' fundamental labour and social rights are being cut to fit to the Procrustean bed. |
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| Give up the addiction to having everyone and everything fit the Procrustean bed of your spiritualized imagination. |
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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. |
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| Without truncating them on a Procrustean bed of technical mastery, she finds a singularly cinematic tone with which to yield to them, to yield herself up to them. |
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| When events in the Middle East refuse to fit into this Procrustean bed, the West is often left helpless in its cluelessness. |
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| Unlike the answer to the Uraon riddle, her book comes with open hands, linking a wealth of references and ideas without trying to reduce them to a Procrustean bed of argument. |
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| On the other hand, too often that approach becomes a Procrustean bed into which the author is forced to fit his account. |
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| Klein's Procrustean bed is sample selection bias at its worst. |
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| His verdicts, moreover, remain freshly minted and remarkably perceptive, however much he crams them into the Procrustean bed of his analytical framework. |
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| That does not mean establishing a Procrustean bed of identity definers, but it does require a shared set of values and judgments about the past, the present, and the future within which the political system can operate. |
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| The labour and social rights of the workers will be put to a Procrustean bed, with the extension of flexible forms of employment, the blow to collective agreements and so forth. |
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| Moreover, everyone is expected to fit the ideological Procrustean bed. |
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