stringently

stringent | American Dictionary

stringent
adjective
us/ˈstrɪn·dʒənt/
extremely limiting or difficult; severe:
Members of the organization have to be willing to abide by the stringent rules.
The city has stringent fire-safety standards.

stringent | Business English

stringent
adjective
uk /ˈstrɪndʒənt/us
stringent laws, tests, etc. are extremely severe or limiting and must be obeyed:
Stringent security measures have been introduced at all airports.
Regulators are forcing issuers to adopt more stringent criteria.
stringent rules/regulations/laws
stringent conditions/requirements
stringent checks/controls/tests
ECONOMICS
involving very little money being available for spending or borrowing as a result of firm controls:
Stringent cost management is counterproductive when it interferes with a firm's ability to grow.
stringent cost-cutting/cutsPrices are now falling slightly after stringent budget-deficit cuts.

stringently

adverb
Drugs are the most stringently regulated of all consumer goods.

Examples of stringent

stringent
The quantity of exports has declined since the early 80s due to the stringent procedures by the government.
Previously, discount window loans were typically granted at below-market rates, with stringent requirements employed to limit access to this credit.
They also increase the political influence of political constituencies who favour more stringent regulatory policies and reduce the influence of business.
In order to allow such subpopulation gene expression patterns to be recorded in our analysis we chose a less stringent cutoff value.
In principle, the answer is yes, although two factors support waiving this responsibility and imposing more stringent duties on mere genetic contributors.
Food producers should consider stringent safeguards to prevent contamination of food-processing equipment during renovation or construction activities, including enhanced in-plant environmental monitoring.
If t 1, the condition is made less stringent by the prospect of an outright victory by one or the other party.
We show theoretically the stringent conditions necessary to reduce vote-seat disproportionality in high threshold systems and empirically their high variance (and higher levels) of distortion.
Needless to say, the employment of child labour did not cease immediately, nor were the restrictions particularly stringent.
Gradually, this stringent assumption is relaxed to allow for a more realistic description of the process.
Principled reasons are presented that argue for maintaining a stringent definition of communities of practice, such that more than shared practices or behaviors is required.
To begin with, it assumes that more stringent standards lead to higher production costs for firms.
Finally, for multinational corporations operating in several jurisdictions it is more efficient to organise their operations according to the most stringent standards.
A variety of special schemes with less stringent rules fail to bridge the coverage gap.
However, stringent public health measures seemed to be effective in breaking the disease transmission chain.
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