The phrase "a strict application of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the rigorous enforcement or adherence to a rule, principle, or standard.
Example: "The committee decided on a strict application of the new regulations to ensure compliance across all departments."
Alternatives: "a rigorous enforcement of" or "a stringent adherence to".
Critics point out that a strict application of these rules would make for very strange writing.
Some situations call for a strict application of rules, others do not.
The French authorities tried to temper a strict application of the law with what they saw as a dose of humanity.
A strict application of stare decisis may lead to rigidity and to legal hairsplitting, whereas too much flexibility may result in uncertainty as to the law.
Similar concerns have motivated other courts, as well as the District of Columbia Circuit, to resist a strict application of the "separate products" tests to similar questions of "technological tying".
Coincidentally, that decision was written by Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who despite being an occasional thorn in the S.E.C.'s side, accepted the agency's argument to avoid a strict application of the five-year statute of limitations.
Boko Haram, which roughly translates as "Western education forbidden," seeks to impose a stricter application of Shariah, or Islamic, law across the largely Muslim northern half of Nigeria.
Not only will he opt out of any further integration, but he wants to undo some of the EU's finely balanced bargains of the past.It may be possible to have a stricter application of "subsidiarity", the doctrine that the EU should act only when it can do things better than national governments.
More recently arrived refugees, however, including Edmund Grindal, the future Archbishop of Canterbury, favoured a stricter application of the book.
The report on the role of women in industry summarizes some of these achievements, while insisting for a stricter application of the principle of equality.
Sessions' new memo acknowledges the possibility that the circumstances of a case might call for a less strict application of that basic charging policy, but still requires prosecutors to weigh carefully whether an exception is justified.
