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Not to mention that SONGS would then have to jump through stringent regulatory hurdles to resume operations.

Perhaps even more stringently followed was his policy against speaking in public without a prepared text.

The director's professional life was equally choreographed—though more stringently, even obsessively, controlled.

Should we fix the ratings agencies by regulating them more stringently, or do we need to deregulate and increase competition?

Modern science stringently demands facts in support of any assertion, the word "faith" having no place in its lexicon.

Faithfully and stringently carried out, it might have saved the South.

He subsequently admitted the folly of this by securing Lydia's rights as his successor as stringently as he could.

The old blue laws were stringently enforced, and the penalty for infringement was usually a sharp one.

I am against any short hours' bill, and am of opinion that infant labour should be stringently and universally enforced.