stringent

stringency | Business English

stringency
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈstrɪndʒənsi/us
a situation in which a law, test, etc. is extremely severe or limiting and must be obeyed:
the stringency of sthThe statute prohibits the adoption of environmental protections laws that exceed the stringency of federal regulations.
a situation in which companies or governments can spend only very little money because of difficult economic conditions:
financial/fiscal/economic stringency

Examples of stringency

stringency
In their early, purist form, their utopian stringency had been mutually reinforcing.
Since we are interested in how costs and benefits depend on the stringency of targets, we analyse several targets at increasing stringency.
The preferences of the government are presumably different (at least sometimes) from an independent central bank, which is more committed to monetary stringency.
Overall capital stringency: whether there are explicit regulatory requirements regarding the amount of capital that a bank must have relative to various guidelines.
The optimal stringency of a policy instrument depends on the marginal welfare effects rather than the total welfare effects.
Bands with high sequence homology to the probes were identified by washing the blots at high stringency.
Third, does it also affect the optimal stringency of environmental regulations?
Clearly, the stringency of a constraint is independent from the executive actor.
The direct effect of regulation, measured in terms of regulatory power and stringency, seems ambiguous.
The selective stringency of sampling is measured by so that individuals with extreme phenotypes are selected from the bottom % of the phenotypic distribution.
If a firm bargains for lenient regulation, the individual behavior might affect the overall provincial regulatory stringency.
However, with the other models, a rough trend was seen for increasing stringency of criteria to be associated with increased evidence for common environmental effects.
We then discuss the optimal stringency of environmental regulation.
Third, he requires the three groups of predicates to be unilaterally interdefinable at all levels of stringency.
Although large families were linked with overcrowding and financial stringency these factors alone did not fully account for the association with delinquency.
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