Congress established stringent standards for nursing homes in 1987.
In addition, senior members of the committee, including Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said they intended to establish stringent new standards for nonprofit hospitals, which could require many of them to provide more charity care and more services to low-income people as a condition of keeping their tax-exempt status.
The two governments have established stringent rules of engagement before a plane can be shot down.
Microsoft has responded that it has established stringent privacy guidelines to protect the user information.
established stringent customer-service guidelines for cable operators.
Under the bill passed on Wednesday, Congress would establish a less stringent standard, saying an impairment qualifies as a disability if it "materially restricts" a major life activity like seeing, hearing, eating, walking, reading or thinking.
The panel should consider creating a research center devoted to gathering and analyzing the valuable lessons that interrogators have learned in the course of our current conflicts, establishing a clear and stringent standard of conduct and ethics and building a cadre of skilled interrogators.
The amendment would require the state to establish more stringent physical standards for police officers and firefighters, leaving it to the towns to put the rules into effect.
I hope that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York's senators, Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand, jointly urge the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration to establish more stringent safety standards for private flights in and around New York City.
Volvo countered that the magazine had compared the measurements with stringent standards advanced by a Swedish labor organization, not the more widely accepted criteria established by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, a group of independent scientific experts based near Munich.
The government also decided to adopt more stringent standards.
