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We insist that our employees follow stringent safety measures.stringent = strict
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Due to the stringent deadline for the project submission, the team had to prioritize tasks and could not explore all the innovative ideas they initially had.stringent = with restricted options due to a lack of time
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Due to the stringent budget cuts, the school had to lay off several teachers and cancel some extracurricular activities.stringent = with restricted options due to a shortage of money
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The school has a stringent dress code.stringent = strict
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At the very least, I am somewhat troubled that this child was not held to the same stringent application standards (i.e. interview) that the rest of the incoming middle-school students were. (source)stringent = strict and unbending
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Then you would be required to undergo a stringent series of character and aptitude tests at the Auror office. (source)stringent = strict
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It amazed him to think the Vatican was failing at every turn to provide coherent, stringent guidelines for spiritual growth and yet somehow still found time to give astrophysics lectures to tourists. (source)stringent = strict
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Why do we police ourselves so stringently—whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? (source)stringently = strictly
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The city of Charleston, in the green feathery modesty of its palms, in the certitude of its style, in the economy and stringency of its lines, and the serenity of its mansions South of Broad Street, is a feast for the human eye.† (source)
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Thus she went forward from farm to farm in the direction of the place whence Marian had written to her, which she determined to make use of as a last shift only, its rumoured stringencies being the reverse of tempting.† (source)
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Eventually, I got out of bed and slowly resumed my daily routines, by which I mean the stringent essentials a person must tend to in order to remain functional and nominally civil. (source)stringent = absolutely required
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Theresa's salary was barely enough; they were economizing less stringently than before, but still had to watch their expenses. (source)stringently = strictly
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Promiscuous breeding has produced a weakness of character that is too timid to face the full stringency of a thoroughly competitive struggle for existence and too lazy and petty to organize the commonwealth co-operatively.† (source)
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This was an escalation from the previous, slightly less stringent grounding that I'd earned for an unexplained three-day disappearance and one episode of cliff diving. (source)stringent = strict
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I fear, however, that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls, I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out, I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin.† (source)
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At first it had seemed that he wished to keep even her aloof from any close knowledge of what he was doing; but gradually the terrible stringency of human need—the prospect of a too speedy death— And here Dorothea's pity turned from her own future to her husband's past—nay, to his present hard struggle with a lot which had grown out of that past: the lonely labor, the ambition breathing hardly under the pressure of self-distrust; the goal receding, and the heavier limbs; and now at last the sword visibly trembling above him!† (source)
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