The pressure on One Direction to conform to the sort of clean-living that Jesus's disciples would find a little stringent is even more intense, of course.
If such condescending sentiments leave a contemporary writer feeling sick at heart, Brontë thought the letter "kind and admirable; a little stringent, but it did me good".
It seems a little stringent... does the USDA really think I would have been better off eating a bowl of plain pasta -- and thereby met my "Grains" requirement -- than a (less caloric) dollop of whipped cream?
"If I remember correctly, she came in and she said that she felt that she hadn't been fair to the process and her standard, or something to that effect, was a little too stringent," Ms. McWilliams said.
Reidy was unrepentant: "I can see where people may say it was unethical but I was still making my numbers," he said, adding that Lilly's systems were a little more stringent, which should be a dubious compliment to Chief Executive Sidney Taurel Sidney Taurel.
The panel was a little more stringent with last year's list of the 20 Best Italian Restaurants in America, perhaps a bit too much, deciding that restaurants that specialized in pizza wouldn't be considered.
The boy also had selected clothing, but I was a little less stringent on the purity of the fiber mix, I know he had some articles that were not 100% fine material.
HONG KONG — Inflation slowed slightly for consumers last month in China and slowed a little more at factories, as stringent controls on bank lending and a gradually strengthening currency began to tame strongly rising prices, data released by the Chinese government on Friday showed.
"As Chinese industry is much more organized and the political system allows stringent monitoring, it becomes a little easier for them to use emissions trading," said Siddharth Pathak, Greenpeace India's policy officer for climate and energy.
