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Example sentences for: strictures

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Needless to say, the Federalist essays do not meet the simple strictures of the Plain Language Initiative.
That most of the forbidden words of the 1950s are no longer forbidden will come as news to nobody: The steady debasement of the common language is only one of many social strictures that have loosened from the previous generation to the current.
This custom suggests new stages in the old rebellion against religious strictures, which once demanded that female hair--divinely ordained to be long and seductive--be covered up lest it incite lust.
Nearly all of them think Clinton is blatantly lying, but they are constrained by popular demand and the additional strictures of "objectivity."
Another is that moral strictures have loosened, at least when it comes to political leaders.