The phrase "a strict understanding of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need for a precise or rigorous comprehension of a particular subject or concept.
Example: "In order to excel in this field, one must have a strict understanding of the underlying principles."
Alternatives: "a thorough grasp of" or "a rigorous comprehension of".
But it also captures something fundamental about his own brutal, jokey stories, which for all of their linguistic invention and anarchic glee are held together by a strict understanding of the form and its requirements.
Thus, as part of his formal system, Frege developed a strict understanding of a 'proof'.
We tend to think that America has always had a strict understanding of private property (I certainly did), but when you look at the history, you see something very different.
In the same way that the sex binary of "male" and "female" regulates bodies that find themselves transcending this dichotomy, "LGBT" creates a strict understanding of "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender".
That said, restoring fiscal sanity and some semblance of regard for the boundaries implied by a more strict understanding of the Constitution has to start somewhere.
On the basis of the strict understanding of the passions, Aquinas could distinguish them both from the will, or rational appetitive faculty, and from any apprehensive faculty (perception or understanding), since neither undergoes change.
The participants from Germany indicated that the current strict understanding and handling of clergy-patient confidentiality, particularly regarding the documentation of patient's spiritual needs, is viewed as ill-fated.
For Christmas, I will give my daughter Alexandra Shulman's Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year (Fig Tree) on the strict understanding that I get a copy of my own right back.
Strict communal perceptions of femininity coupled with an enduring culture of machismo propagates a rigid social understanding of what women can and cannot do.
The idea for the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement was seeded when the city bought the 1933 federal courthouse and post office from the federal government for $1 in 2002, with the strict understanding that the building — one of the oldest in Southern Nevada — be used for cultural purposes.
They not only addressed the legal authority of clinicians and coercive practices, but also how they encountered a strict medical understanding where their opinions, judgements and wishes were ignored.
