stricture
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Repeating a theme, McMahon said it would be her intention to follow the law, which includes the Constitution’s stricture that Congress controls the purse strings.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
The company maintains it had systemwide stricture against hiring minors.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2023
Employees shouldn’t be made to feel uncomfortable because of things like gender, sexual orientation, race or religion — and, of course, there are legal as well as ethical aspects to the stricture.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022
This last stricture may seem iffy: After all, if Amazon can harness its trove of knowledge to develop the type of diapers that people most desire at the lowest cost, why stand in its way?
From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2021
My father did, in any case, rapidly discover a way to circumvent the limitations on his effectiveness implied by the stricture that he should carry no laden trays.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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