stringency
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Usually, a state’s department of insurance or public health department regulates the facilities, though the stringency of those laws vary.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
The plan strikes a “balance between program stringency and affordability,” said Fariya Ali, air and climate policy manager with PG&E, during the meeting.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
The decline reflects, in part, the stringency of inspection measures at the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel, which has acted as the main gateway since it was reopened in December.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
Minhaj applied a similar stringency to "Patriot Act," but at a cost.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2023
There is a certain stringency to life, a willful doing without.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
But he added that some air taxis are being lumped into categories such as general aviation where smaller aircraft have different stringencies than larger jetliners.
From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2022
As an example, Alter cited Dr. Steiner’s assertion that “Antigone draws about herself an ethical solitude, a lucid dryness which seems to prefigure the stringencies of Kant.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020
It's fair to guess that Kazaras's original staging ideas must have been both more coherent and more convincing before budget stringencies intervened.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2011
This is a small selection of the thousands who have had to endure the absurd stringencies of the UK Border Agency since the points-based visa system was introduced.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2010
Their sympathies were with him, but they felt unable to cope with the iron stringencies of the time.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by William Robert Lee Smith
