procrustean bed in English

something to which people are forced to conform (from the Greek legend of a robber who altered his victims to fit his bed by stretching them or cutting off their legs)

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1. People are firmly opposed to the policy of Procrustean bed.

2. We are firmly opposed to the policy of a Procrustean bed.

3. Yeah, I see. I'll not place all of them on Procrustean bed.

4. Those strict proprieties of the old days are now regarded as a Procrustean bed.

5. Morning exercise reading is really an annoying unpopular Procrustean bed to all our students.

6. If law enforcement succeeds in mandating interception facilities for every Internet carrier, the industry as a whole could be pushed back into the procrustean bed of conventional telecommunications.

7. The Accused, by virtue of having used it in their catalog, have imposed a particular awkward and odious pattern format on the software community, which has proven to be something of a Procrustean Bed.

8. As far as multilingualism is concerned, budgetary constraints cannot be the Procrustean bed for aligning fair treatment of languages on inadequate standards and for the degradation in the quality of services due to Member States.