How to Use stringent in a Sentence

stringent

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  • Council members, at the time, viewed the plan as too stringent and passed on the fines.
    — John Sharp | [email protected], al, 29 June 2023
  • The prison sentences were stringent, in some cases up to 25 years.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • These higher rates come in the midst of a statewide push to tighten gun laws that are already among the most stringent in the country.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Without those things, there's no reason for the NFL to take more stringent measures.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • The qualifications for the third debate were more stringent than the first two.
    — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • SpaceX was the worst of the bunch, with a 15% drop, which the researchers chalk up to its uniquely stringent requirement: Five days a week in-person.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 May 2024
  • In places with less stringent dress codes, Kim tells me that her young friends will simply wear their Vejas around the office, for the full day.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The killings are also reigniting debate over whether Texas gun laws are stringent enough.
    — Jack Douglas, Tim Craig, Alex Horton, Hannah Allam and Brittany Shammas, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
  • This helps ensure that the product meets stringent standards.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Styles are now less stringent, which is totally my vibe.
    — Sebastien Laforest, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The likes of Germany and the US have much more stringent regulations—the flammable cladding used in Grenfell was already banned in both countries.
    — Alex Christian, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The rules governing such balance sheet moves are stringent.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Scholz claimed these stringent rules were often more transparent and predictable than elsewhere in the world.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Sistine, 25, revealed how stringent her father’s rules used to be.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
  • This is in contrast to the data protection laws of China and the European Union which are deemed too stringent.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Plants that expect to retire by 2039 would face a less stringent standard but still would have to capture some emissions.
    — Chris Carlson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2024
  • The rules guiding the hundreds of cult devotees were both liberating and stringent.
    — Hannah E. Meyers, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
  • To a certain extent, that’s true, although there can be quite stringent rules depending on the country.
    — Tony Sachs, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Such machines are subject to rules and safety requirements that are less stringent than those for full-sized cars.
    — Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik, Quartz, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The Federal Reserve has faced stringent criticism for missing signs the bank was at risk.
    — Jonathan J. Cooper, ajc, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The cuts in the package are almost certainly both too modest to win the votes of hard-line conservatives and too stringent to win the votes of progressives in the House.
    — Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • The more stringent laws in those 25 states went into effect for different reasons.
    — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
  • So, a birdie-or-better streak of 15 or more for anyone in the group would satisfy this stringent criterion, but one of 14 would not.
    — Pradeep Mutalik, Quanta Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the streets of major Chinese cities over the weekend, calling for an end to the stringent tests and lockdowns.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, the majority applied a more stringent version of a clear-statement rule to achieve their goals.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 1 June 2023
  • For three years, its stringent approach has kept Covid cases and deaths relatively low in the country.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
  • His last effort came in August, with a judge denying his request to at least be released on stringent house arrest.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2022
  • But Meta appears to still be figuring out how to launch in the bloc, given its stringent rules around data protection.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 6 July 2023
  • Harris won the race, partly by avoiding being tagged as either too stringent or too lenient.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The antiabortion law DeSantis signed in 2023 is one of the most stringent in the nation and placed Florida in the forefront of Southern states hostile to women’s reproductive rights.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024

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