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But, along with a higher age limit of 16, it is the first jurisdiction to deny an exemption for parental approval in a policy like this - making its laws the world's strictest.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

California, with its roughly 40 million residents, has some of the strictest waste laws in the nation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

The European Union has some of the strictest data-privacy laws in the world, so the therapy might encounter fewer regulatory hurdles in other parts of the world.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

At the center of the debate is the act’s “blanket rule,” which automatically applies the strictest “endangered”-level protections to all threatened species unless the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

Don Apolinar Moscote explained to him, in strictest confidence, that the soldiers had taken the weapons off as proof that the Liberals were preparing for war.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez