Sample Sentences for
stricture
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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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    As such, she would be governed by the same rules and strictures that applied to all those who worked directly for the service.†  (source)
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    What would I give to hear your strictures on them!†  (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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    Harry doubted that Snape had even heard her strictures on Mul-ciber and Avery.†  (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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    My father had less mad strictures about the city, though still intense ones.†  (source)
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    There is no stricture on you, for you have tried.†  (source)
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    By that time, Astaroth had essentially become a 'demon' as we tend to think of them: He assumed their aura, he could be summoned, and, despite his great powers, he was bound by certain rules and strictures.†  (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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    There had been a moment of crisis when he stripped Galbatorix's strictures from the Eldunari the king had enslaved.†  (source)
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    He ignored this stricture.†  (source)
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