Book publishing has been a tradition-bound business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Things Writers Need to Know Today] Reference

We are faster to change than the tradition-bound French.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Hanft: A Bicycle Built for Us: Will this Weekend's "Summer Streets" Program Launch Our Bike-Sharing Revolution?] Reference

The Senate is rule-bound, it is tradition-bound, it is seniority-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2008] Reference

But they're an aristocratic and tradition-bound group that's on their way out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fearful Summons]

They are trying to push a tradition-bound culture to act differently, digitally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Secret America: National Security Inc.] Reference

ANNOUNCER: She took on the tradition-bound all-male bastion of the Citadel and won.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2005] Reference

Donald Kohn helped build a tradition-bound institution that embraced change slowly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Kohn:] Reference

The look and sound add up to a tradition-bound pose — young hipster with an old soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [In concert: Justin Townes Earle at 9:30 Club] Reference

All laymen think of the law as slow moving and tradition-bound and regressive, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario Tax Payer's Stake in our Judicial System] Reference

They bridled at, and feasted on, the uptight, tradition-bound 1950s culture of their youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monty Python's bright (and silly) side of life] Reference

There is a format to 'Columbo' that can be as tradition-bound as some religious ceremonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [JUST ONE MORE THING....] Reference

And it must order agencies to reconsider their own regulations and tradition-bound thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Performance Review Report Chapter A] Reference

The Forbidden City is a highly ordered place, tradition-bound and ruled by strict etiquette.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empress Orchid by Anchee Min: Questions] Reference

PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: She took on the tradition-bound all-male bastion of the Citadel and won.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2005] Reference

Some of the most famous, like the Ritkers and harum-scarums, were still tradition-bound creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

He said he would represent the isolated, tradition-bound people of his province at the conference.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: She took on the tradition-bound, all - male bastion of the Citadel and won.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 22, 2005] Reference

But an informal electronic message could offend a high-level executive at a tradition-bound business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes to Interviewers] Reference

The French, eager to embrace the Internet age, seem to be fed up with the tradition-bound grande dame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old School, New Age] Reference

"Many of these tradition-bound sports are opening themselves up rather than keeping TV at arm's length.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Networks take bold steps to offer all-access viewing] Reference

We are simply too myopic, closed-minded, tradition-bound, and quite frankly, weak-willed, to do what is necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flesh, flesh everywhere, Nor any morsel to eat...] Reference

Having women work in this tradition-bound society is a social revolution, Fatima, a volunteer leader woman tells me.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2008] Reference

For all that, it was a classically Chinese face in its ethnicity, and one much favored in this tradition-bound nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear and the Dragon]

The daughters of Japan's elite deemed themselves too modern to accept the tradition-bound rigidity of the royal family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Bride: Japan's New Sweetheart] Reference

Political parties are officially banned in Swaziland, a small and tradition-bound nation wedged between South Africa and.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The forward-looking, freedom-oriented space colonists stand in contrast to their tradition-bound, systems-wedded opponents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

There's also a generational shift that could propel change in this tradition-bound vehicle segment, says IHS Automotive analyst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ford's New Pickup Line: Like My Tough V-6?] Reference

Politicians have yet to agree on how to induct the politically motivated fighters into the tradition-bound army they used to fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Deals Blow to Nepal Peace Process] Reference

Major Pettigrew may look, at first, to be the very image of the tradition-bound, English man who would live in a village like mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [BJ Nathan Hegedus interviews Helen Simonson about her first novel, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand] Reference

The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Namesake: Summary and book reviews of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.] Reference

In the tradition-bound world of baseball, where any innovation is controversial, it's usually the players or the fans who get steamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Umps Call Foul] Reference

But his candor provides insight into the thoughts of some hiring managers, who may be more tradition-bound than one would expect in 2008.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tassels, Pantsuits and Other Interview Don'ts] Reference

It tells the story of George VI, a reluctant king who was always in the shadow of his glamorous brother and beloved if tradition-bound father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Fest Day 9, 10 and 11: The Irish, The Scots and Werner Herzog] Reference