The phrase "a less stringent approach" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a method or policy that is not as strict or rigorous as another.
Example: "In addressing the issue, the committee decided to adopt a less stringent approach to regulations, allowing for more flexibility."
Alternatives: "a more lenient method" or "a relaxed strategy."
A Senate bill takes a less stringent approach and does not cut the number of weeks workers can receive benefits.
In "Cheers," Ms. Isaacs takes a less stringent approach, pairing Damien Rice's songs with fitful, temperamental movement to relate a tale of unreciprocated love.
The Senate is taking a less stringent approach in its bill, choosing not to reduce the number of weeks or tie benefits to the unemployment rate.
Mr. Bloomberg, who has been courting the support of the city teachers' union, took a less stringent approach to ineffective teachers than some of his opponents had, putting more emphasis on training than on ways to remove them from the classroom.
Proponents of a less stringent approach disagree with this; they would say that epistemic virtues and vices can fruitfully be analyzed by employing other concepts.
Because we wished to evaluate the maximum number of potential cross-hybridizing hits, we intentionally chose a less stringent approach than that used by CombiMatrix [41] or in experimental work that determined the threshold value for probe specificity as 87% sequence identity [21].
#ST25, ST101, ST102, ST103, and ST104 belong to the ST27 complex, only with a less-stringent approach that defines an ST complex by sharing of alleles at >5 of the 7 loci.
But with the president privately signaling some pessimism on new gun laws, as his domestic policy aides take a slower, less stringent approach, it's bracing to see somebody, anybody, actually make government hum.
Winters is now focusing on returns to shareholders rather than revenue and winding back the less stringent approach to lending.
The less stringent approach allowing for analysis of genes with potential cross-hybridization was used here in the rest of the analyses.
At T1, using a less stringent statistical approach, we observed an over-representation of genes involved in the stress response, metabolism and intracellular signaling.
