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Example sentences for: strictures

How can you use “strictures” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Another is that moral strictures have loosened, at least when it comes to political leaders.
Also, the U.N.'s Kofi Annan has proposed loosening the strictures governing Iraq's oil sales as an incentive for Iraqi cooperation with U.N. inspectors and Albright said she supports that.
When McDonald took over, many of the men rebelled against the program's strictures, especially the random drug testing.
Nearly all of them think Clinton is blatantly lying, but they are constrained by popular demand and the additional strictures of "objectivity."
Needless to say, the Federalist essays do not meet the simple strictures of the Plain Language Initiative.