The phrase "a more rigorous standard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing criteria or benchmarks that require greater precision or strictness in evaluation or assessment.
Example: "In order to ensure quality, we must adopt a more rigorous standard for our testing procedures."
Alternatives: "a stricter criterion" or "a higher benchmark".
Journalism has a more rigorous standard: what is printed is believed to be true, not merely unsuspected of being false.
Impact investors want their investments to align with a more rigorous standard of good while achieving a maximum return.
But he called for applying a more rigorous standard of whether United States military intervention was warranted before committing troops to the field.
Samuelson helped move the field away from the instinctive and toward a more rigorous standard, based on theories that could be demonstrated mathematically.
"They are worried that if they have to undergo a more rigorous standard it would stop the flow of cheap seafood.
It has created a situation where we are held up to such a more rigorous standard of moral behaviour than men are, that it is we that are somehow to blame when our bodies have been violated without our consent.
This is a far more rigorous standard, and perhaps should become the basic test for coverage of an administration that makes wild, unsubstantiated statements that get covered as though they were facts.
An explanation is provided of what may have gone wrong in the development of dietary guidelines, and an alternative and more rigorous standard is proposed for evidentiary support, including the recommendation that when adequate evidence is not available, the best option may be to issue no guideline.
It does not provide a jury, for example, and requires "clear and convincing evidence" that the person poses a threat, rather than the more rigorous standard requiring proof "beyond a reasonable doubt".
Since the poll tax, black American citizens have become somewhat used to being held to different and more rigorous standard, even when they are presenting something essentially honest.
Chief Justice Roberts, applying the more rigorous standard he outlined, said that the risks identified by the inmates were not "so substantial or imminent as to amount to an Eighth Amendment violation".
