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She adhered to the strictures of her religion, following its teachings and customs even when it was difficult.strictures = constraints on behavior
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The law was criticized for imposing strictures on the freedom of the press.strictures = constraints
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The patient was diagnosed with a stricture in the esophagus, making it difficult to swallow food.stricture = an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passageway
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I consider myself bound by the laws of my government and the strictures of my religion.strictures = constraints to behavior
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Mindful of John Wesley's strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling, Simon made a pile practicing medicine, but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the putting on of gold and costly apparel. (source)strictures = criticisms that place constraints on behavior
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Harry doubted that Snape had even heard her strictures on Mul-ciber and Avery.† (source)
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She was abandoning herself to a life of strictures, rules, obedience, housework, and a constant fear of disapproval.† (source)
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He ignored this stricture.† (source)
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Stephen feels hemmed in by the strictures of Irish life, by family and politics and education and religion and narrow-mindedness; as we know by now, the antidote to limitations and shackles is freedom.† (source)
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My father did, in any case, rapidly discover a way to circumvent the limitations on his effectiveness implied by the stricture that he should carry no laden trays.† (source)
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Other strictures apply, but in general, yes.† (source)
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A smile that was permanently in conflict with some inner stricture against the seductiveness of humor.† (source)
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He'd ride sometimes clear to the upper end of the laguna before the horse would even stop trembling and he spoke constantly to it in Spanish in phrases almost biblical repeating again and again the strictures of a yet untabled law.† (source)
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There is no stricture on you, for you have tried.† (source)
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Belle accepted, too, her denomination's strictures against alcohol, narcotics, and unclean foods; against swearing and unchastity; and against violation of the Ten Commandments—including the Commandment that stipulated, "Thou Shalt Not Kill."† (source)
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Yet a feeling of stricture, of a responding hopelessness almost approaching ferocity, grew with alarming quickness about her.† (source)
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