In mainland China the communist revolution of 1949 brought strict directives on dress.
In 2009, Guatemala introduced the sexual exploitation and human trafficking law, which defines sex with a girl under 14 as rape in all circumstances and includes strict directives for sentencing and how to assist victims of sexual violence.
"We call upon all citizens to co-operate with our heroic armed forces, which are committed to our strict directives to protect civilians in the first place, and to impose security and order, and to protect state installations and institutions," he added.
Rolling Stone reports that "McChrystal has issued some of the strictest directives to avoid civilian casualties that the U.S. military has ever encountered in a war zone.
I have just returned from a shopping expedition where I had fully intended to follow this season's strict fashion directive advising that everyone - man, woman and child - should own at least one item of clothing in pea green.
Non-university-based research ethics committees, such as those linked with the National Health Service (NHS) within the UK context, are far more strict and directive in their enforcement of specific, pre-defined and standardised, 'ethical' rules and regulations which often pay little attention to context-based contingencies in fieldwork (see Truman 2003; Wiles et al. 2007).
Still challenged by a legacy of environmental neglect inherited from the former Soviet Union, those that have joined the European Union now must conform to strict waste directives issued by the European Commission.
Due to strict management directives of employers and routine overtime working schedules, it is often difficult for MWs to obtain leave to see a doctor far from their worksites.
But as I've learned since becoming a parent, the research shows that children tend to do best, across the board, when parents command loving respect, not fearful obedience — when they are both strict and supportive, directive and kindhearted.
