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For Sramek, it was a way around the county’s strict rules on development outside city limits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Spacecraft designers face strict limits on the weight and size of the equipment they can launch.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
It is governed by a strict policy of "complementarity", meaning it can only take on cases a suspect's home country is unwilling or unable to try itself.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Over the years, strict procedures and regulations in Top Fuel have evolved to improve safety.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
A talented and competitive athlete in school, known as Elbows to those who played basketball with him, he ran the Farmer household with a strict hand.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Norway's capital Oslo has already decided to ban glasses equipped with cameras in schools, while there have been increasing calls for stricter regulation in the European Union and the United Kingdom.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
And they will have the option of choosing between the default 13+ setting for Meta AI, the app's optional built-in AI assistant, or a stricter "Limited Content" option.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Storage-site developers say the technology is safer today, and safety standards are stricter, than when many older sites were built.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Other proposals that would have created stricter requirements around the approval process for new storage sites did not advance through the Legislature this session.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Papi will get even stricter with all of us, and he'll probably cut back on his work hours even more, just so he can keep an eye out on us girls.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
They also contended it included the nation’s strictest data privacy protections and noted how participation would be voluntary, similar to how it is offered in other states.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
"The circumstances that led to the incident should be thoroughly reviewed, those responsible should be identified, and the strictest possible action should be taken."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Social Security has one of the strictest measures of disability.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The Snowdrop campaign that followed led to the UK enforcing some of the strictest firearms legislation in the world.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
But these debates had all occurred behind closed doors and under the strictest code of confidentiality.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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