The phrase "a stricture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a restriction or limitation, often in a formal or legal context.
Example: "The new regulations imposed a stricture on the amount of waste that can be produced by factories."
Alternatives: "a restriction" or "a limitation."
A stricture against astronauts' sharing "undue preferential treatment" is NASA's way of banning sex in space.
The Dutch West India Company expressly forbade religious persecution - a stricture against which the autocratic governor Peter Stuyvesant frequently chafed and inveighed.
Secretary Freeman argues that such a stricture is unwarranted, because "too little is known" about the persistence of pesticides and their movements.
Regular listeners must be guided by a stricture familiar to any 5-year-old: do your share.
The group is highly secretive, and forbids journalists and photographers to attend its sessions, a stricture enforced at the gathering here on Sunday by plainclothes guards armed with bamboo batons.
And to the best of my understanding, no individual in the past, present or future, viewed the cap as an impediment or a stricture on their desire to continue to work".
America has banned banks entirely from speculative trading on their own account, a stricture known as the Volcker rule; other jurisdictions have heavily curtailed such activity.
Surely "The Oath" could accommodate a stricture against the doing of "shitty deals," no? "I think 'shitty deals' is, like, passing judgment already," he said.
The frontbench would in turn grumble that their voices were being stifled by the disciplinarian system for signing off announcements in case they ranged off-message or implied spending commitments (a stricture that gave Balls considerable power of veto).
According to Steven D. Sladkus, a real estate litigator at Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, one of the few exceptions is a stricture with a financial impact, for example, a proposal to institute a flip tax.
Consider, for instance, a stricture laid down by Matteo Arpe, boss since July 2003 of Capitalia, Italy's fourth-largest banking group, embracing three banks: Banca di Roma, Banco di Sicilia and Bipop Carire.
