The phrase "apply more stringent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the implementation of stricter rules, standards, or measures in a particular context.
Example: "In order to ensure safety, we need to apply more stringent regulations on construction sites."
Alternatives: "impose stricter" or "enforce tougher".
It would apply more stringent rules against the export of arms or torture equipment that could be used for internal repression.
Joshua Rosenzweig, the manager of research and programs at the Dui Hua Foundation, a human rights organization, said that executing Mr. Wo was not in the best interests of the Chinese government, which last year pledged to apply more stringent oversight to death penalty cases.
This procedure amplifies both the valid and invalid data, though, so researchers have to apply more stringent filters to their results.
The Stonewall Inn is already part of the Greenwich Village Historic District and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 but the city landmark designation would apply more stringent standards on alterations to the property.
These priors apply more stringent restrictions on interactions.
Researchers who wish to increase the accuracy could apply more stringent expression level cutoff to the dataset.
The British bank also applies more stringent "haircuts"—ie, it is tougher on valuations than the ECB, according to market participants.
By applying more stringent criteria, we further selected 28 candidate genes and validated them by RT-PCR and qRT-PCR.
Applying more stringent context score cutoffs increases the likelihood of observing biologically relevant effects when miRNAs are exogenously added in vitro [17].
When applying more stringent criteria (adjusted p-values [adj.-p]<0.05; corrected for multiple testing by the Benjamini and Hochberg algorithm [27]), a total of 154 genes was significantly regulated by IL-28A (65 genes up-regulated, 89 down-regulated) and only 3 genes were significantly regulated by IL-29 (all up-regulated).
By including only patients with eosinophilia, our study applied more stringent criteria.
