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 | Jsharp@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Doing so would hold them to the most stringent safety and transparency obligations.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 20 June 2023
  • The argument for more stringent DMCA rules revolves around that central premise.
    — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Nearby districts have less stringent policies in place.
    — Cheyanne Mumphrey and Juan Lozano, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Changes from the initial draft include the removal of stringent penalties for violations.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • Over the next decade, the foundation will attempt to rewild and rehome 2,000 white rhinos and push for more stringent local protection for the animals.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • There was a time in the not too distant past—say, nine months ago—when the Turing test seemed like a pretty stringent detector of machine intelligence.
    — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Had a more stringent inspection caught the issue, Japan Airlines Flight 123 would have never taken off that Monday evening.
    — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
  • This year, with his Crusaders three quarters of the way through the most stringent non-conference schedule in Class 6A, that line of thinking is more pertinent than ever.
    — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The two payment giants began to loosen those conditions in recent months as the country emerged from three years of stringent Covid restrictions.
    — Laura He, CNN, 21 July 2023
  • The stringent cleanse and rejuvenation regime, once the sole preserve of princes, is often shoehorned into a five-day flurry.
    — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2024
  • China has a rich history of banning movies and TV shows that show maps or imagery that its stringent state censors disapprove of.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 7 July 2023

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