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Example sentences for: strictures

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Romantic yearnings for an imaginary past were, to him, anathema, and conservatives of many kinds were early subject to his critical strictures: The rights of man [the conservative] has gradually grown used, after long years of disquietude, to hear talked of, without apprehension of catalepsy; but you must wait for his son, or for his son's son, if you would get a candid hearing for the rights of woman.
In southern rural areas, such strictures have been accepted, especially as the Taliban has provided a stable environment for the cultivation of poppies.
Another inference might be that the same tolerance displayed by Greeks in their dealings with resident foreigners—at any rate, American and European ones—has been extended to English words which are, as noted, largely exempted from the strictures of Greek grammar and allowed to retain their alien habit.
Nearly all of them think Clinton is blatantly lying, but they are constrained by popular demand and the additional strictures of "objectivity."
When McDonald took over, many of the men rebelled against the program's strictures, especially the random drug testing.