rigid frame
Americannoun
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"Industry participants want to see consistency in the global regulatory regime, otherwise there will be opportunities for bad actors to exploit loopholes in jurisdictions with less rigid laws," he said.
From Reuters • Oct. 31, 2022
In the years since, the Kremlin has further tightened the screws on the media and passed rigid laws curbing artistic expression.
From Time • Mar. 1, 2015
There was no more reason to be angry about this than there was about the rigid laws of basic arithmetic.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. imports $263 million worth of beef a year, all of it cooked or canned because of rigid laws prohibiting imports of fresh or fresh-frozen beef that might contain the virus of foot-and-mouth disease.
From Time Magazine Archive
In vain the too rigid laws made them the arbiters of life and death.
From Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous
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